Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union often appear as one of Hollywood’s golden couples, but the pair have gone through some rough patches together.
The couple was recently spotted spending time together in New York while promoting their new skincare company, Proudly.
Dwyane, 41, recently opened up about one of the most difficult times in their long relationship when he fathered a child with another woman.
The couple was technically on a break when the basketball great began dating Aja Metoyer, who would become the mother of the point guard’s youngest son, Xavier Zechariah Wade.
The former MVP told the newspaper Club Shay Shay podcast that telling 50-year-old Gabrielle about the situation was “much harder to have a conversation with my current wife,” prior to the boy’s birth in 2013, than competing in the NBA that year playoffs.
Golden: Dwyane Wade, 41, and Gabrielle Union, 50, seem to be one of Hollywood’s golden couples, but the couple has faced some rough patches during their long relationship (pictured Thursday in New York)
“I mean, you think about it. Okay. It’s all scary. The whole situation is scary enough,” the Utah Jazz co-owner explained in a five-minute teaser clip from the two-hour interview on YouTube.
“And no matter what people out there say or what people think, at the end of the day, it’s like you have to sit with you,” he said.
“You have to sit with this person, this woman you’re going to be with, right? And I had to talk to my wife about this. Well, my current wife about this.’
The couple married almost a year later, in 2014.
Dwyane credits the Truth Be Told star for making their relationship work.
‘I tried to walk around it with my feet. I tried to break up with her: “Hey, you know things have been bad lately. We have taken a closer look at this relationship.’ Anyway, I’ve tried all that. She just kept showing up.”
The couple is and remains in therapy to address the problem.
‘It hasn’t been perfect. It will never be perfect. But that was nine years ago, and we’re still in therapy,” he revealed.
Tough: Dwyane revealed on the Club Shay Shay podcast that it was hard for him to tell Gabrielle that he fathered a child with another woman while they were on break. The former MVP admitted that having that conversation was “much harder” than competing in the playoffs
Therapy: Dwyane revealed that the couple turned to therapy to deal with their issues. ‘It hasn’t been perfect. It will never be perfect. But that was nine years ago, and we’re still in therapy,” he revealed
Blended family: Dwyane and Gabrielle have continued to create their own blended family with Dwyane’s eldest children Zaire, 21, and Zaya, 16, Xavier, 10, Dahveon Morris, 22, and their daughter Kaavia, four, born via surrogate in 2018
“We’ve had some yelling about it. We have had regular conversations about it. And so it’s something that’s going to continue to be something that I have to work on, and it’s not going to go away because years pass or because I say ‘sorry.’
The couple has built a family with Dwyane’s eldest children, Zaire, 21, and Zaya, 16, from his first marriage to high school sweetheart Siohmaughn Funches-Wade, their ward Dahveon Morris, 22, and their daughter Kaavia, four, born via a surrogate mother. in 2018.
Dwyane said he worries about how his birth story will affect Xavier, now 10.
“What I do know at the end of the day is that this is my family. This is my story. We’ll get through this, how we’ll get through it, but we’ll get through it.