Steve Harvey said that when Lori Harvey has a breakup, so does he.
During an episode of The Pivot podcast, Havey shared he deals with his daughter’s “highly publicized” love life.
“It’s hard, man. I ain’t gonna lie, it’s hard,” Harvey explained. “I’ve had to swallow some things, you know? And I feel for her because she’s in the public.”
Harvey went to share that Lori is done with a relationship, he stands with her.
“See, I gotta be real careful cause Lori, boy, she be in my ass. I can’t make no mistakes. … I saw one of [her] exes somewhere at a game somewhere and I shook his hand. Well, I can’t even touch his ass no more. I better not acknowledge him or look at him or nothing no more. So I’m off limits,” he added. “If you an ex, your ass is my ex too. The rule in our house is: any boy that’s an ex, he’s now my ex too. I must hate him like we was dating.”
“As their father, I’m their protector. I’m their example of what love looks like towards their mother. So how I treat their mother is very important because they looking at it and they see it,” he continued. “That’s why I always try to be a great example for them.”
Harvey also told a story about having “nothing but pure hatred” for the 16-year-old boy who was Lori’s junior prom date. The young man asked if he take Lori to afterparty but Steve insisted on a 10:30 curfew.
“Boy, there’s no chance of me OKing no stuff like this,” Steve told the young man. “I said, ‘Just know this, whatever you do to her, I’m gonna do to you.’ I said, ‘So if I look outside and y’all kissing real hard, when you come in here, me and you gonna kiss real hard.’”