Alicia Keys is a homewrecker. It’s not a case of “maybe this happened, or maybe it happened this way.” Nope. Swizz Beatz was married to Mashonda, and he was screwing around on Mashonda with multiple women including Alicia and his London baby mama Jahna Sebastian (Jahna was his third chronological baby mama, Alicia was the fourth chronological). Mashonda notably called Alicia out in an open letter posted online – and Mashonda called Alicia out when Mashonda and Swizz were still technically married. Mashonda’s story never changed – Alicia and Swizz were fooling around at first, and then Swizz dumped Mashonda for Alicia. It was all pretty sordid and gross, and I blame the mainstream white-focused media for not giving the story more attention. Because if Alicia had gotten even one-hundredth of the scrutiny Angelina Jolie had gotten, Alicia wouldn’t even be trying to sell this BS. As CB reported earlier, Alicia is the cover girl for the new issue of Essence (CB had some early excerpts here). In newly released interview excerpts, Alicia is trying to act like she’s the real victim here, and that she never did anything wrong:
Multiplatinum artist Alicia Keys has opened up about her scandalised love life for the new issue of Essence magazine in the US. After being branded a ‘home wrecker’ by some media and bloggers Alicia is maintaining that she did nothing wrong and that her husband, Swizz Beatz, was completely separated from his ex-wife before they got together.
‘We didn’t start seeing each other until months after they had separated,’ she said. ‘I was aware of all the false things that were being said about me it definitely hurt.’
Alicia married Swizz, real name Kasseem Dean, in July last year in Corsica while she was six months pregnant with his child. Swizz, a music producer, was previously married to the No Panties R&B singer Mashonda Tifrere, 33, whom he has a son with. The union between Alicia and Swizz exploded in the media when Tifrere posted a letter online saying that Alicia had ‘assisted in destroying a family,’ and did a series of ‘tell-all’ interviews.
Swizz and Tifrere’s divorce was finalised in May 2010 and Alicia and Swizz announced engagement less than a month later. Bloggers went wild, accusing Alicia of being a home-wrecker and calling her names. She remained tightlipped throughout the episode.
‘I was sure that if I engaged it would become back-and-forth like some sick entertainment, which goes against everything I believe and would have made things worse,’ said Alicia.
After months of aggravation Alicia remained silent but now, she says, she is finally at peace with Tifrere, who recently posted thanks for her ‘beautiful blended family’ and accepted Alicia as a ‘partner’ in caring for her son.
‘Things are really good now,’ said Alicia who also revealed that her love with Dean is ‘intoxicating and whole’.
Swizz has another child with British singer Jahna Sebastian, who was conceived while he was still married to Tifrere.
‘Kasseem is very present in his children’s lives. I wouldn’t be able to love him otherwise,’ said the 14-time Grammy winner. ‘We are doing what is best for the children.’
Often interview-shy Alicia also revealed that she has being living by advice from Oprah Winfrey for many years: ‘She whispered in my ear and said “Keep some of you for you”,’ she recalled.
The musician, actress and mother launched her first album, Songs in A Minor, ten years ago – it sold twelve million copies. Her son with Swizz, Egypt, was born in October. He is named after the African country because Alicia took a trip there to release the pressure and stress of her success.
[From The Mail]
I’m surprised she acknowledged Jahna and Swizz’s daughter, however briefly. Word around town is that Alicia has actually gone with Swizz to London to spend time with the baby, and God knows, Alicia is the one probably paying the child support payments (unless Swizz is still deadbeating, like he was before he married Alicia).
As for Alicia’s “pity poor me” routine – ugh, bitch please. I’m not a member of the card-carrying Homewrecker Patrol, but don’t play this crap for sympathy, and don’t blatantly lie. Alicia has bad taste in men, and she made a series of major decisions that people have every right to be critical of.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
A home cannot be wrecked without (at least) 1 willing participant in said home.
Dudes get no pass. (Just sick of all the “woman bashing” when it comes to this stuff…dudes are just as culpable, if not more!) Never heard of a woman who couldn’t keep her “biscuits under wraps”, if you catch my drift…
But plenty of talk of boys who can’t keep their dick in their drawers; their lad off the stroll. Yeah.
I don’t know when AK hooked up w/ Swiss but I’m tired of the men in all these cases( ie Paul Newman, Pitt, Tom Hanks,etc been given a free pass.They left their spouses and broke up their families. Why are they never labeled homewreckers. When Meg R. hooked up with Russell Crowe was he labeled a “homewrecker? IS Daniel Craig a homewrecker?I find it sexist. Blame both or blame the married spouse IMO.
Of course Swizz gets a great deal of the blame, but Swizz isn’t giving interviews about how this whole mess isn’t his fault and how we should have pity on him.
@ Kaiser – No pity on ANYONE involved in this mess. Not from me, anyway!
Why would you immediately jump to racism as the reason this homewreckage wasn’t news like Angelina? Angelina has been a very compelling character since she became famous. Alicia, not so much. That has nothing to do with their skin tone, Alicia just isn’t that interesting (except for the homewrecking).
I don’t like the title “home wrecker” either but I think what Alicia and Leann have in common is the “well maybe he was married but we’re soul mates so it’s totally justified”.
I can’t understand how either of these women would ever expect their husbands to stay loyal.
Wow, she scored a real winner. So sad for those kids he can’t stop having with different women.
i see she’s sooooo in love with ‘Africa’, ‘African Countries’, ‘African Names’, & Africa this, that, blah, blah, poop.
correct me if i’m wrong but isn’t it in places like in Africa (albeit years ago, maybe still), that if you f*cked a married man you would be labeled a whore, adultress and stoned to death?
i’ll echo it: bitch please.
if you gonna be bitch-badass enough to take another woman’s husband, at least own up to it!!!
you never hear any of this ‘i was the victim’ bullshit from Angelina.
bitch got off that plane in Haiti in a black tank with a swollen belly of Brad’s seed like…’yeah. what. so!’ 😆 she ain’t apologetic for a damn thing.
i don’t agree with chicks who poach someone else’s guy.
that’s a species i can’t even relate to.
but like in the old westerns…to shoot someone in the back makes you a ‘yellowbell’. at least look your enemy in the eyes when you shank ’em.
I agree. Men do get off easy in these situations. And I think it’s because it’s almost expected of men, especially famous men, to be unfaithful. (Sad but true)I don’t think Swizz is being given a pass. I just think he is a little less relevant in this story. And A Keys is known for being a philanthropist/humanitarian. She is held to a higher moral standard. (Just like Jolie). AND she constantly lied about their involvement until she got pregnant and couldn’t anymore (just like Jolie).
I used to be a fan but now I just shake my head. She’s a home-wrecker and now a liar. Nice. Just remember how you get his is how you’ll lose him.
Totally AGREE Kaiser!
She’s a homewrecker (and apparently a liar) and he’s a womanizing money grubbing douchebag. In short- they deserve each other because karma is a bitch!
“IF HE DID IT WITH YA…HE’LL DO IT TO YA.” AK will get her turn to cry and she deserves it too! Can you hear that AK? it’s KARMA CALLING.
I agree. I’m tired of seeing posts excoriating Alicia Keys, when Swizz is the dog. He wrecked his marriage, and he’s the one who didn’t pay child support – he deserves the blame. I don’t care what Alicia did, and I’m happy that she’s still enjoying her career.
Love is messy and complicated, and I’m tired of so many people feeling free to pass judgement as if they were somehow perfect. Honestly, Kaiser, it’s annoying that you seem so worked up about how you believe Alicia isn’t suffering enough. Swizz is a dog, she’ll probably end up realizing it in the end, why do you think the world needs to pile on?
Totally agree with Kaiser. This would have been a big deal if she were white and there is no reason to think otherwise or make excuses about why it wasn’t covered except by mainly black bloggers.
I don’t want to totally write her off my playlist because she is only one of the few singers that actually puts some thought into making good music but listening to her songs is still hard b/c all I keep thinking is hypocrite!
AK has always come off as self righteous to me, even before the whole incident with Gonzo. She has horrible taste in men. What does this say about her if this is what you feel you deserve?
Love her, no clue who Mashonda is .. I wonder is she’s called Mash? He cleans up good.
Sooooo, he’s “very present in his children’s lives. I wouldn’t be able to love him otherwise”. Well, isn’t that special! I love her music but she is just being stupid about this man. He was merely climbing his way up the female food chain and now he’s close to the top. This girl is headed for some hard truth real soon!
GOOD FOR YOU KAISER!
I love that you guys have never backed down on this story, and keep giving it to her.
I was really disappointed when all this drama came out, and then the nauseating wedding and all her bs. I feel like she is a very gross person from this disaster.
To Those Who are Upset for not placing the Blame on the Men:
Here is the thing, yes he is a scum bag, and a horrible person for the things he did. But Alicia is the worst of the two, since she built this image of empowering women, and strength and love thy self, etc. She is really just phony and willingly participated in this scandal, all the while, she keeps thinking she is this strong, healthy role model. F 0FF!
I cant stand her anymore, and cant wait for what comes around, goes around!
I agree that “A happy home cannot be wrecked without (at least) 1 willing participant in said home.” I also agree with Kaiser on the pity party part but Mashonda new Swizz was a cheater he cheated on his 1st baby mama with Mashonda so I don’t know why she was so surprised when he did it to her.
Who I think really gets a pass is Britney Spears she did the something LeAnn Rimes did and no one calls her out on it but they do call out K-fed. Britney use to show off Shar Jackson’s daughter buy her all kinds of thing brag about what she would buy her and talk about her all the time until she had her own kids and you never saw Britney and Shar daughter together again.
Ben Affleck also get a pass he is never group with cheating man, Jennifer Garner did wonders for his image so much so that people are willing to give him a pass.
Blondie@ Brad and Angelina came out about their relationship before she got pregnant with Shiloh and Jolie was known for being a wild child and only in the last couple of years is her image changing from that.
Typical cheating celeb. Just like Brad and Angelina, LeAnn and Eddie, etc etc. It’s always someone else’s fault.
Sue…Jolie denied that relationship until she got pregnant. Up until then it was just obvious. But she didn’t admit it until she confirmed her pregnancy on David Letterman. I remember the world joined in a chorus of DUH. And yes she was a wild child but she also responded to a question about her having an affair with Brad by saying that she could never do that because her dad cheated on her mom. That’s what made me sick about her! (and the vial of Billy Bob’s blood, and the open lip kiss with her brother)
So if she says loud and often enough, it’ll make it true in her head? Even if it happened the way she says it did, she’s still a dumbass for marrying a guy who’d left his wife a month earlier and made a baby w/someone who wasn’t his wife.
Anyone else hear anything about her being gay? Whatever I read it was a good bit ago. Wasn’t sure if there was anything floating around to substantiate it.
I don’t think white media ignored Alicia due to racism. If Alicia had busted up Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith best believe she would’ve been put on blast in the media, because that would’ve sold like crazy. Angelina/Pitt/Aniston beats Alicia/Mashonda Who/Swizz Who.
DON’T KNOW IF RACE PLAYS A PART IN THE COVERAGE OF ALECIA’S SO-CALLED HOMEWECKING REMEMBER FANTASIA RECEIVED PLENTY OF COVERAGE THEY EVEN DID SEVERAL SEGMENTS ON NANCY GRACE I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT ALECIA SHOULD’VE SAID SOMETHING WAY SOONER
LunaT:
I always thought she was gay.
So you’re not alone there…but my gaydar is a bit “hit and miss’…:)
Swizz is a total dirtbag. What’s not said here is that he started cheating with Alicia while he and Mashonda had an infant at home. Disgusting. It goes without saying that Swizz is obviously a complete creep, but how could Alicia feel comfortable hooking up with a guy who had an infant at home? Did that enter her mind when they welcomed son Egypt? How could you ever trust a guy like this? Pathetic.
P.S. I agree with jackie…I had always admired Alicia for promoting this strong, independent woman image, but all that is blown now, it’s clear she’s insecure if she’s with a creep like this.
I totally agree about the white media thing. thats why I stopped watching nancy grace. its like minorities never get murdered or go missing
So not seeing this guy’s appeal!
BRAVO KAISER!! FOR CALLING A SPADE A SPADE, tired of all the cotton candy treatment of some of this sort of behavior, while i know that no one is perfect, and people do tend to make mistakes, and who are we to judge? you want to be in the public eye?, well.. it comes with the territory, AK is a hypocrite, writing/singing those types of songs, men can’t do what they do without a willing participant, now can they? very low indeed, now SHUT up and go away, we almost forgotten about this. damage control?
It’s all the same. Certain celebs are beloved, so there are people who will generally discredit what they’ve done and smooth it over, make excuses, etc. Then there are celebs who people don’t like as much, and it’s “terrible”. In the end, it’s all the same.
I love love love her last two albums. That’s all I’ve got to say.
I think the epitome of “woman bashing” is deliberately having an affair with a man who is not emotionally available. You do it, you lose any type of backing from the female population in my eyes. However, he’s a pig and yes it’s his responsibility to stay faithful. Both of them are disgusting creatures. It makes me made because I loved Alicia’s music. I can’t listen to it the same way anymore.
@RHONYC, you said it all damn. Agreed. Own up to it and stop pretending to be so damn innocent.
THANK YOU!!!
And I read rumors she was gay too and it was a marraige of “convenience” for what I don’t know…maybe a baby? Thier music careers? Either way she losts stripes…
Leave AK alone. Its not her fault shes been dickmatized by Squidward. Unfortunately she didn’t get the memo from Whitney that says “when you lay with dogs you get children with horrible names that look like their daddys.”
I still like her. and agree with post # 1. She will get hers though because he can’t keep it in his pants. That will be an amazing album. Same thing i sd about Brad, Angie and Jen; if they have all moved on and dealing with the situation and are “happy” then why are we talking about it.
lmao @ boom
I agree about the guys getting off too easy in these situations. To me he’s the worst because he was the one who made vows and commitments and had children. However, Alicia knew all that and still got involved, so she’s just as bad. Even if it’s true love, it will wait while a legal separation happens, or even the 6-12 months for a divorce.
And I too agree someday he’ll do the same to her and follow that giant nose to some other stupid woman.
lucy2—Your last sentence made me laugh out loud.
I HATE AK now and I was in denial for a long time about what she really was, a slut, WEAK, 4th baby mama) because her songs were about female empowerment when this is not her at all.
And I totally agree, she should be given just as much nasty energy as Angelina was given when she fooled around with Brad. Don’t be fooled, she is not protected in the Black community and the urban blogs have been trashing her bad, but the main stream media doesn’t seem bery concerned, but they should give her the Leanne treatment ASAP
And he IS more disgusting than she is, but can’t say that I expect much from a man that has kids by several different women in different countries who cheats on his wife, but I expected much more from Ms. Karma/Keys.
BTW having your kid in Africa means what?? Did she think this would wipe away her dirt – taking it back to the “Mother Land”??!!! Bish please
So Swizz has dropped four Beatz? What type of time frame are we talking about?
The guy looks like a weasel and acts like one too. Good luck with that marriage!
What the fuck is wrong with you guys?!
First off, Mashonda and Swizz were LEGALLY SEPARATED when he and Alicia began dating.
Second, Mashonda tried to prevent him from seeing his other children.
I realize it’s easy to judge and blame Alicia for the end of that relationship, but the “white focused media” doesn’t know the whole story.
Kudos to you Bellaluna – too often men are portrayed as poor innocent pawns. Unless Swizzbeat forgot he was married – then yeah it’s on him too.
Oh ffs. The marriage was Swiss Cheese’s responsibility, not Alicia’s! ALL married men get hit on from time to time, just like all married women do. If you made a promise, you stick to it. All this other hoopla is about trying to make it seem more complicated than that. And it’s not.
Everyone forgets that Swizz got with Mashonda when he was with another woman. I think even Mashonda forgot. No party in this is the absolute victim. Mashonda was just receiving some karmic retribution of her own.
That is one ugly man.
Didn’t she have a song called Karma? Quite fitting.
Pffft. The party with the dick is the homewrecker. Though she was complicit, he clearly has a loooooong history of skankitude.
Good luck, Alicia.
I’m afraid this whole deal (with the cheating) has caused me to lose all respect for Alicia. (I never had any for ‘Kasseem’ (I refuse to call the man ‘Swizz’) to begin with.)
She would be wise not to even *suggest* that she has been somehow wronged in this situation. The only way she could’ve been wronged is if ‘Kasseem’ lied to her initially about the status of his marriage. But that excuse only goes so far.
I have to respect the ex-wife for being so willing to try to find ‘peace’ with Alicia, for the sake of her son. I’m not sure if I could get to a point of forgiveness toward someone partially responsible for the end of my marriage.
Is it petty for me to wonder when (& where) ‘Kasseem’s’ *next* illigitimate child will be born?
I think if she stole him, then that’s messed up, but, it happens and people move on, especially if you feel immature until you meet the one who wants to make you an adult.
On another side note, my hubs cooked for her in Chicago and said she is absolutely stunningly beautiful in person.
Swizz Beatz is a loser. Alicia Keys is a skuzzy who happens to be “all happy now” she got her idiot deadbeat. And, that whiny whiny Mashonda (?) is a skank BORE.
The men always get away with it because the women let them. Case in point, Aniston says Angelina is ‘not cool’ but she ‘chooses to believe in her husband’. Leanne and the whole mess with Eddie’s ex-wife Brandi. Mashonda publically slating Alicia but where was her public outcry specifically against her husband? Time and time again, the women let the men get away with it. Even here on gossip sites, the ‘other woman’ gets all the hating. And that’s the sad part in the whole thing. The men are the ones who are unavailable and who have taken the vows. But they are the one who often get away with it scot-free.
I wonder what the world would be like if your pants really did catch on fire when you lied….
I think the whole mentality to soley blame the woman is a bit archaic like we are still living in ‘The Scarlett Letter’. I hate the term homewrecker in this case Swizz has shown that he would have cheated with anyone but he left Mashonda because he caught a bigger fish with a bigger bank account. I am sure Alicia has convinced herself that they are so ‘meant to be’ that it doesn’t matter but you can’t keep someone like that man faithful. And yes this doesn’t matter to the mainstream because Alicia is the only famous person and everyone involved is Black.
How do you tell your best friend that you think that he is the one and he is still married? Unreal!!!!! I think this is all set up to cover up her being a lesbian. She wanted to have a baby, they are going to try and let this ride for a couple of years and then all of a sudden she is going to come out and say that she always felt different and was fighting it all these years. Thats how these folks do!
Swizz Beatz is nothing but total foolishness. the music he has been saturating the airwaves with is pure childish garbage. Mary J Blige please stop letting him produce your music. You know we don’t want to hear that foolishness from him. Unfortunately, these celebs wash each others back and care nothing about morals and values…$$$$$$
I don’t care how many alcohol swabs, gauze pads, antibiotics, band-aids and peroxide Alicia sends to Africa (the only black folk she wants to deal with)just like Elizabeth Taylor she will go to her grave as a homewrecker!
Isa, you made me laugh 🙂
“and I blame the mainstream white-focused media for not giving the story more attention” WTF..
So every scumbag couple screwing around on their spouses should be in the mainstreat media? Are you kidding. Who the hell cares who AK is screwing? More low lifes procreating, nice.
Seems like way too many different stories to assign blame here. How do ANY of us know when he separated from his wife?? Because she said so? Always consider the source. I mean, let’s just think about the conflict of interest here: mediocre z-list pop “star’s” ex-husband hooks up with super high profile Grammy winner, and scorned wanna-be decides NOT to use that story to her maximum benefit? That will NEVER happen and we all know it. If Keys did in fact wreck a happy home, then she sucks (dude sucks anyway — 4 baby mamas? no way to clean that up, sorry). But in light of the very flimsy evidence, she gets a pass from me…for now.
ON another note…she is so stunning, and he is kinda funny looking but has excellent bone structure once you get past the too big nose…and it’s not a bad nose just too big for him! I’m going to bet their kid is absolutely beautiful.
Swizz Beatz (didn’t anyone like him enough to tell him that was a ridiculous stage name?) is more culpable, I think. Honestly, if you’re the one who made the commitment,then you’re the one with the main responsibility. That doesn’t let the other party off the hook, it’s still a very shady thing to do. You still willingly take part in an activity that will cause someone else pain.
We’re all human, we all do dumb things we regret, but for the love of God, just get your head out of your genitals for a second and THINK.
What Jackie said.
And I dont give a rats ass if they we’re legally separated, Mashonda said they were still living and sleeping together..
Alicia is the biggest hypocrite..this interview was hilarious.
Agree with the original bellaluna – one cannot wreck a home without the active participation of the DUDE. My personal experience involved two grown @ss adults who made poor choices.
Happy homes don’t get “wrecked.” And maybe Mashonda is a horrible person. We don’t know.
MrsOdie2: Happy homes don’t get “wrecked.”
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Coming from you, that is really hilarious.
These douches like Swizz and Eddie Cibrian are happy with one woman until the opportunity to trade up falls in their lap. If Beyonce looked Swizz’s way he would drop Alicia like a hot potato. And the trade ups are too stupid to realize that because they too have egos too big to comprehend.
Someone should tell Alicia Keys to stop with the lies. She got pregnant in February, he didn’t get divorced until May. Considering he got FOUR women pregnant while he was involved with his last wife, I absolutely believe Mashonda that they were still intimate when he hooked up with Alicia. That said, in fairness to Alicia, that marriage was already pretty wrecked by the time Swizz knocked her up.
In any case, I have zero respect for Alicia. Hello, have some common sense! If a guy isn’t legally married, don’t get involved. There are plenty of attractive, SINGLE people to choose from.
Furthermore, in this day and age, it’s very risky to have unprotected sex outside of a monogamous relationship. Obviously, Swizz and all his baby mamas didn’t pay any attention in Sex Ed class.
I feel bad for the kids. I can’t get over what an irresponsible piece of trash Swizz is. And Alicia isn’t much better, frankly.
Swizz Beaks. LOL. Why give your beak to so many innocent children?
It’s hard to listen to someone’s music and lyrics about self-empowerment, respect, dignity, honour, etc when their personal lives so clearly clash against their professional image. Like trying to swallow a huge pill and gagging over the hypocrisy of it all.
First of all I came on this site this week and started using the name Sue because no one else was using it. Then all of a sudden there is someone posting as Sue and it is not me! Does this happen often on this site that people use other peoples names? Just wondering because that is so weird. Made me feel a little creeped out. Oh well i will get an Gravatar so this can not happen. Kind of sad though that people do this – weird. Anyway.
This is like the last post when we talked about Angie/Brad/Jen. Again these are grown people. I am sure that this marriage was finished first – right? At least that is what he will say and Alicia to. But again as per our discussion. Why the hate for people who get with other people who they seem to love more. mln76 I know agrees with me. Let people move on. They found love and now have a baby. They may be together for life – who knows. Here is a quote from the other post but I cahgned the names. I think that it fits.
Beatz was a 40 year old man who doesn’t owe anyone anything relating to his life and how he lives it, let alone some women he don’t know about who were and are still living by proxy a fairytale through the Beatz/Mashonda couple.
This is something you do when you are a teen, too emotionally invested in those Harlequin stuff, idfentifying way too much with one of the character beyond the sane level.
I said get over that juvenile infatuation and broken haert of yours. Beatz didn’t left YOU, never belonged to YOU to begin with which makes your complains and bittered comments years later when all the parties involved have each their life rather pathetic and out of date.
Let people you don’t know live their life, making their life decisons just like you won’t allow anyone telling you how to live yours, with whom and when !
This Mashonda seems a bit whiny (like Jennifer) rigth? She is trying to make Alicia look bad.
Not sure why Alicia is dragging this issue back on to the streets. My co-worker used to work in the building where she and Beatz had an apt and he told me they were together a long time before she got pregnant so it was CLEAR that she was messing with him for MANY MANY MONTHS before she became pregnant. So the ex did have a legit ax to grind to Alicia for messing with her man. He’s a dog anyway, but to continue to deny this is really not going to change the truth.
Sue– I don’t think that anyone is pretending to be you or trying to steal your name. It just happens. It’s not like you’re Sue58624 or anything. Also, sometimes commenters go a while without commenting. So the other Sue may have been using that name long before you. Don’t be freaked out. Gravatars do help. 🙂
Hmm wonder what happened to my comment I posted yesterday?? Anyways let’s not put the blame on Alicia. The onus is on Swizz Beatz for being the married party. If he lacks self control then this is no one’s fault but his own. Society and it’s backwards thinking in blaming ‘the other woman’ is beyond sad. Mens actions are rarely penalised. I think if men were scrutinised the same way women currently are the world be a more interesting place.
AAAHHHH
You cannot wreck a marriage that isn’t yours. Stop thinking of men as such hapless, helpless creatures that they can’t say no when pussy is waved in their face.
It takes two to have an affair. BOTH the man and the “other woman” (or vice versa) share the blame. Neither should be getting a pass. The one who is married is the worse offender, but no one should get a pass. It’s not that hard to wait until the marriage issue is worked out, but it seems like these people are afraid that they will lose the other person if they wait. True love can and will wait. It’s not the falling in love that’s the issue, it’s how you choose to carry yourself and how you choose to behave.
Don’t know what I did to always get personal attacks from Cheyenne. Such a bully!
Gregg you don’t know what you are talking about. This story is years old and there are internet stories and pictures to prove that they were cheating WHILE he was still with his wife. And if the media is going to give LeAnne grief then Alicia and Julia Roberts should get it too.
@Mrs Odie2: No doubt it was some perceived slight toward Brad and Angelina that she hasn’t forgiven you for. She is, after all, Angelina’s fairy godmother / nursemaid / pitbull.
Has Alicia got an album coming out or a new one to promote? This smacks of self-serving PR. She’s not interesting. Um….why would you choose a lazy dirtbag who has multiple children with multiple women who’s clearly hitched a ride to your own gravytrain and massively traded up. What a fine catch he is. Dumb. When this relationship inevitably ends she’ll lose a lotta money. PS what kind of stoopid name is Swizz Beats?? It’s kinda ludacris to me!
The rumor that Swiz and Alicia were together was going months before Mashonda (who is Tifere?) and Swiz officially seperated. She’s a home wrecker who’s hoping that the fact the mass media didn’t pick up her story from the beginning is going to help her slant the story. The saddest part about this story is Swizz has come out fairly unscathed.
@Swizz I agree with SOME of what you have said not all. Let me just say if these two can be happy and Swizz can be faithful(I doubt it) the best of luck to them. Swizz is a womanizer he is probably already cheating on Alica because that is his pattern. This isn’t a Tom Hanks/Rita Wilson, Tracy/Hepburn, Jolie/Pitt, Newman/Woodward situation.
I’ve often thought that spurned lovers go on a ‘homewreck’ tack because it’s that much easier to think of your husband as having been ‘corrupted’ or ‘bewitched’ by a predatory or wantonly ambitious kind of evil woman against which resistance is futile. She targets her mark, then goes about her hunting. This is a horrible thing to experience, but it prevents one from having to accept the idea that perhaps he wasn’t taken in by her cruel designs but rather that he wanted to leave you. Maybe worse still is the notion that he may just want her more–that’s a terrible blow to trust and confidence and a chunk of your life being given into that relationship. So, what you supposed to do now? After a series of misfires, my father permanently flew the coop almost 30 years ago and I still have no idea what to do with a man because I’ve never lived with one and am also somewhat gun-shy. That takes a lot of work to resolve, but it’s not like I had a romantic relationship or kids with him. I won’t really go into the misery he inflicted on us or its lingering effects, but all of that garbage–it barely has a name because he was the one who did it to us. Evil as the guy is, he is not the type of person with whom I needed to share a home or life. He simultaneously made our lives infinitely harder in ways that persist to the day but, you know, ask the courts–he also made us infinitely better by not exposing his noxious self to us. Other women? Sure, but clearly they’ve got terrible taste.
Let’s see how long this marriage last. Than let’s see if she will still say nice things about that creep Swiz.
Speaking of women bashing/double standards, what about when people try to justify an affair by arguing that the wife must have been doing something wrong for the man to seek out another women? People cheat because they are selfish or like many celebs seem to think because their money/fame entitles them to that “luxuary” and they can get away with it if they pay the right people to hide it, spin it into a magical fairytale, or look the other way(ie-People mag).
Why do these women think that they can justify their affair by arguing that the marriage was already broken before they got there? If the man really wanted out of his marriage, why then didn’t he respect his mistress enough to DIVORCE the wife BEFORE he jumped in bed with that other woman. It’s quite interesting that in many of these cases, it seems that MONEY is the driving force between these HW affairs. Did SB pick AK because of her bankaccount? He left M is a horrible financial situation, so we know that he has money issues.
I must say, that many of these celeb are smart. They keep quiet and let their mistresses/new wives do all the talking, and therefore take all the heat.
@Jo Mama: That was an excellent post. I think you are absolutely spot on with your assessment of why the spurned woman blames the other woman. And why all other women blame her as well.
I expected more from AK!! He’ll be the inspiration for her next album after he dogs her
There is no such thing as a homewrecker! He got sick of the first chick and moved on! Simple as that! Why should Alicia care about his past women?
@Jo Mama
Yes. Exactly. I left my fiance for my current partner. Ugly situation and I’m sorry it happened that way, but life is far from perfect and you do the best you can. The whole situation, however, had everything to do with me, and the idea that my current partner could be “blamed” in ANY way is absolutely ridiculous. Beyond ridiculous.
I left a fiance for my now husband as well. But the key here is that I LEFT MY FIANCE BEFORE I hooked up with JP. There was nothing physical between us at all until we ended relationships and cleaned up complications. We didn’t jump into bed, damn the torpedoes and everyone in our lives, and have an affair. We extricated ourselves from the relationships that weren’t working and then (finally) got together.
@Jackie
Alicia should be worried about herself at least. Swizz has a history of moving on. He has 4 kids with 4 different women. So if any of these women thought having a child would saddle Swizz down that’s not the case. He doesn’t care and soon he’ll be on to the next one. If anything I guess she did Mashonda a favor I just wonder who’s going to do Alicia the favor.
@Liana
The end result is the same, though–a broken relationship. And that is the part that matters, in the end (just ask any couple that has successfully worked through infidelity). And it is not the fault of your now-husband. The dissolution of your previous relationship had only to do with the fact that your previous relationship did not satisfy you in some way. Not because it was bad or because your ex was deficient…Just something wasn’t right or wasn’t enough for you. You were not lured away helplessly or against your will. Your husband is not a homewrecker that deserves scorn.
Look, I, for one, am sick of this here foolishness and think it’s gotten much more publicity in the black, white, post-racial, tabloid, online and any other media than it deserves. Essence really should have done a sister-girlfriends getaway/staycation issue this month and kept the pretty cover of Alicia without the re-hashed commentary on the inside.
He is not the answer to any of life’s questions and any semi-rational woman would know that. I predict that Alicia’s rational will return one day in about 7 itchy years or less. Until there’s some reporting to do on that? Let’s all let this here mess go.
We all know he’s a mess but so are ALL of the women to whom he’s ever been linked. I mean, until she got with him, most folks in the hood thought Ms Keyes was a closeted lesbian using that Kerry dude as a beard. And, Mashonda’s only song was some mess called “No Panties”, I think? AND she was on that tragedy of a Love & Hip-Hop show literally showing off the ruins of their marriage? Messymessmessymessmessy.
I like A. Keyes and her music (a lot), but any woman rolling with that strong-black-woman-ghetto-anthemic-Oprah-had-saidtome-steeze who then hooks up with a known industry philanderer/sire DID NOT wreck no home and will probably not have a happy ending regarding her marriage to him. It ain’t about karma; it’s about common darn sense, relationship history and child support checks. I’d LOVE to see a black man in the business show these boys how you become an adult, a monogamist and pay your taxes on time and in full. But, on the real? Meh.
I also suggest the rest of the players in this drama (especially Sounding-All-Pity-Party-But-Will Whoop-Yo-A** Mashonda) charge it to the game and get this messymess that has nothing to do with good music (something both Keyes and the husband do better than most of their contemporaries) out the media. Don’t nobody care ’bout ya’ll’s family business as it ain’t no messier than most of ours. Stop writing “open letters” for blogs, arranging features in major magazines and on talk shows and reality tv and just go to work and make a song or something!
shes beautifull and full of life,and famous,but she have to take a back seat to evelyn rivera the adulteress,,who’s neither ,beautifull,full of life or famous.
There was a comment in Essence that she does not participate in slander of other women or talking about people. She just does not engage in that per her friend. Well, let me tell you, Ms Keys has over 3 million followers and i am sure the majority of them send her love. I was following the Alicia Keys fan club team and there is a group of about 5 young girls on there that talk about Mashonda everyday. they say very cruel things and even how they wish she would fail and even things about her sons happiness.
Guess what out of 3 million people Alicia Keys follows them and responds back to them on twitter. So that means you see everything they say about Mashonda and you obviously enjoy reading it since you still follow them. Check her timeline and see who she told they can still get tickets for her show and then check the tweets and you will find the others that Alicia follows. Unbelievable!!! Alicia pretends she is so good. What a hypocrite!!!!!! Yes, the truth has come to light. This is from a Believer that She IS A Liar!!!!
Just want to say that I’m not sure if Alicia is a homewrecker (esp as bad as Swizz), but she CERTAINLY is SO INCREDIBLY stupid because she believed Timon from Lion King, while he was probably all like (with hearts in his eyes) “oh yeah, Mashonda? Pssshh oh yeah we’re splitting” and actually believed that, and during the whole time, treated Mashonda like a bitter ex by ignoring her WHEN SHE WASN’T AN EX BECAUSE THEY WERE STILL MARRIED. Mashonda wasn’t quiet because she thought her marriage was still workable, and Alicia treated it like “no I can’t respond because she’s a negative ex” *forehead slap and head shake* Dumb ass.
But because Alicia was too deeply into it, it was “too late” to get herself out (which is BS to me, but that’s how using emotions as reasoning works). Either way, these two were wrong wrong wrong no matter HOW Alicia stans or pro-foolery females want to defend it.
The thing that I wanted to say the most was SHE WILL NOT LOSE HIM THE WAY SHE GOT HIM!! SOMEONE has to STOP repeating that! Y’know why? Because SHE’s the bigger asset. She is basically THE most desired woman in the industry right now, aside from Beyonce, but even men are getting tired of Beyonce. There’s really no one who I notice who’s been as desired or accomplished as much or as famous as she has been, and I don’t know if anyone can top that. So he was basically star-struck, and was like “man imagine me having her”, then took the chance. And Alicia comes off as someone who doesn’t play around in r/ships (although braindead in making decisions) and doesn’t seek drama. So sorry to break it down to yall, but they aint breaking up for a goooooood minute, if at all. Just look at all the other homewrecking couples that lasted for years, unfortunately.
MAN this world is so f*cked up! And i hope all the heartless broads out there have the same thing happen to them. It is THE only way you will learn to empathize, sadly enough. Selfish selfish selfish world.
I think we all expected more from AK and now we are all disappointed in her because of the obvious lack of character in her chosen soul mate because while I agree that he may not be a complete loser as a father, he is still the type of man who doesn’t leave one sure thing unless he has another. That in itself lowers one’s oppinion of a man and his strength of character. if he was over with in his mind with Mashonda two years ago, then he should’ve filed two years ago. and he wouldn’t look like scum of the earth now.
Alisha does not need the white Media all in her business. Mashonda toke care of that for her. Everyone is siding with Mashonda and no one even knows her. I see nothing wrong with Alisha singing empowering songs for woman, that is who she is. On the other hand she is stunning and there is always two sides to a story and is no one else’s business. And wishing Karma on someone is awful to say about someone. You folks need to get a life, no one is perfect not even you
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