Shaq responds to ex-wife Shaunie writing she wasn’t in love with him

Shaquile O’Neal has responded to a guide excerpt during which his ex-wife, Shaunie Henderson, admitted she might need by no means been in love with the NBA legend.

Henderson, now 49, who created the VH1 “Basketball Wives” sequence, launched a guide this week entitled  “Undefeated: Altering the Guidelines and Successful on My Personal Phrases.”

O’Neal, 52, now an NBA studio analyst for TNT, responded in a submit on Instagram to what Henderson had written about their marriage in her guide.

“I perceive,” O’Neal wrote.

“I wouldn’t have been in love with me both. Wishing you all the perfect. All love, Shaq.”

He added, “Belief me, I get it.”

The couple married in 2002 and divorced in 2011.

“I loved these candy early years being a mom and elevating my kids; my days had been all the time busy with children and household, and once in a while I acquired to journey or take pleasure in a little bit of the NBA excessive life. However invisibly, my marriage was starting to crumble,” Henderson, now 49, wrote.

“As I’ve written, it wasn’t apparent early on. You understand how while you first get sick, and the signs are so delicate that you simply’re not even certain you’re sick? That’s how issues had been within the early years. I used to be busy and comfortable and didn’t discover what was occurring. However because the illness progressed, the signs turned more durable and more durable to disregard.”

The couple shares 4 kids collectively — sons Shareef and Shaqir and daughters Amirah and Me’arah — whereas O’Neal has a daughter, Taahirah, from a previous relationship, and Henderson has a son, Myles, from a earlier relationship.

Henderson wrote that O’Neal had a behavior of “going lacking” and that she suspected infidelity.

“Wanting again, I don’t know that I used to be ever actually in love with the person, however I used to be in love with the concept of being married to the person I had a household with,” Henderson wrote.

“I used to be in love with the concept of constructing a life collectively. I really did take pleasure in spending time with him. [NBA] highway journeys gave me an opportunity to be with my husband and expertise the NBA life for a short time.”

Final June, O’Neal admitted the place he got here up quick as a husband.

“I had two good girls and I messed it up,” Shaq advised the singer Monica on her podcast.

“My first one was my child mom, Arnetta [Yardbourgh], after which I met Shaunie [Nelson]. Shaunie was additionally an ideal girl and I messed it up.

“Yeah, you recognize, we had been younger and all the time simply doing dumb stuff. However, the advantage of our relationship is that they forgave me and we have now a great relationship now. However while you ask me concerning the good girl — I had two good girls and I messed it up, simply by, you recognize, being dumb.”

He relayed the recommendation he provides his sons of their relationships.

“Very first thing it’s important to be is trustworthy, trustworthy with your self and trustworthy along with your companion… I inform my sons on a regular basis, a person has three jobs in the case of a lady. Defend, present and love,” O’Neal continued.

“Some males can solely supply two, for no matter motive, however I’ma train you the way to supply all three. And that’s what I attempt to do — and though I don’t have a relationship with the ladies that I let get away, I’ll all the time PPL: defend, present, and love, no matter they want they get it from me.”