Shaquille O’Neal revealed how his children treated him after his divorce from Shaunie Henderson.
Appearing on T.I. ‘s “expediTIously with Tip “T.I.” Harris,” O’Neal shared what he learned from his divorce.
“I learned that I know better than to be out here bullshitting,” said O’Neal. “Sometimes you just get caught up. But we know better.”
O’Neal then spoke about how the divorce affected his seven children.
SHAQ RECONCILED WITH HIS CHILDREN AFTER THE DIVORCE
“In all of that, I’m just happy and blessed that they’ve forgiven me. Because me and my babies didn’t talk for a while,” O’Neal admitted. “I understood that, but now we’re starting to get closer. I’m teaching my boys to be better than me. Papa was a Rolling Stone. You don’t need to be like me.”
He went on to thank the mother of his kids for “forgiving me and not killing me’ and that he’ll be getting married in three years.
SHAREEF O’NEAL TALKS ABOUT HOW HIS PARENTS CO-PARENT
In November on Heir Time with Reginae Carter, Shareef opened up about how he and his siblings dealt with their parents’ breakup.
”The first few years it was pretty hard,” Shareef recalled. “We were all too young to kind of understand what’s going on. Mom and Dad aren’t going to be together. It wasn’t like a ‘choose a side’ thing.”
“My mom [was] like, ‘If you guys wanna go with your dad, go ahead.’ My dad’s like, ‘If y’all wanna go with your mom, go ahead,’” Shareef continued.
Although the divorce was challenging, Shareef said that his parents learned to co-parent.
I think the thing that I respect about my parents both is how well they co-parent,” Shareef said. “They never come around, and it’s a problem. My mom is remarried now. She can bring her husband around and dad [can] dap him up and have a conversation. So, I respect them both for never putting the stress on us.”