Shaq responds to ex-wife’s comments about their marriage: ‘Wouldn’t have been in love with me either’

NBA Corridor of Famer Shaquille O’Neal appeared to deal with feedback made by his ex-wife, who stated he stored “going lacking” whereas they had been nonetheless collectively. 

O’Neal has been open about his flaws in his previous marriage with Shaunie Henderson, whom he was with for nearly 9 years earlier than they bought a divorce in 2011. 

After Henderson made the feedback in her new ebook, ‘Undefeated: Altering the Guidelines and Successful on My Personal Phrases,’ O’Neal posted on social media seemingly admitting his faults but once more. 

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“I perceive…I wouldn’t have been in love with me both,” he stated. “Wishing you all the most effective…All love, Shaq.” 

O’Neal and Henderson had 4 youngsters collectively: sons Shareef and Shaquir and daughters Amirah and Me’arah. 

Shareef O’Neal commented below his publish saying, “Love you man! You saved my life.” 

Shareef needed to bear coronary heart surgical procedure after being recognized with an anomalous coronary artery, a congenital coronary heart defect that brought about an artery to develop within the incorrect place when he was 18 years previous. 

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There was a chance Shareef would by no means play basketball once more, however he performed for the G League Ignite this previous season, averaging 5.6 factors over 15.5 minutes per recreation.  

Henderson broke down her marriage with O’Neal inside the binds of her ebook, starting with how all the things appeared nice at first. Nonetheless, trying again, she stated she was blind to issues early on that had been beginning to make the wedding “crumble.”

“I loved these candy early years being a mom and elevating my youngsters; my days had been at all times busy with youngsters and household, and once in a while I bought to journey or take pleasure in somewhat of the NBA excessive life. However invisibly, my marriage was starting to crumble,” Henderson wrote, per the New York Submit. 

NBA participant Shaquille O’Neal and then-wife Shaunie O’Neal at Muhammad Ali’s Celeb Battle Evening XIV on the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa on April 5, 2008 in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Michael Caulfield/WireImage)

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

Henderson stated she couldn’t ignore O’Neal not being round when his each day tasks had been dealt with by others. 

“Take Shaquille’s behavior of ‘going lacking,’” Henderson wrote. “Our chef did all of the grocery procuring. His managers paid all of the payments. I took care of the children. So the place was he going within the morning, in the course of the day, and at night time? Nobody works out that usually.”

Henderson added that she heard the rumor that O’Neal had a rental in Miami Seashore after he was traded from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Miami Warmth. 

Shaquille O’Neal speaks to the gang throughout his jersey retirement ceremony after the sport towards the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder on Feb. 13, 2024 on the Kia Middle in Orlando, Florida.  (Fernando Medina/NBAE by way of Getty Photographs)

“I began to get suspicious, however he at all times had a solution, and I might by no means show something. Ultimately, I used to be pressured to confess that my household life wasn’t as blissful or excellent as I wished to imagine.”

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Since their divorce, O’Neal has stated on quite a few events that he was an issue throughout their marriage. In April 2023, he went on “The Pivot Podcast,” the place he stated, “I used to be unhealthy. It was all me.”

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