Shaquille O’Neal says he is at fault for his divorce from ex-wife Shaunie O’Neal.
“I was bad,” the NBA legend said on Tuesday’s episode of “The Pivot Podcast,” adding, “She was awesome. She really was. It was all me.”
Shaq, 50, declined to elaborate on what he was doing wrong but confessed he wasn’t protecting her and protecting those vows.
“Sometimes when you live that double life, you get caught up. I’m not going to say it was her. It was all me,” he continued.
The former Los Angeles Lakers star gushed about his family and how their support meant everything when he was playing basketball. But after he and Shaunie separated in 2009, he felt lost.
“I was just being greedy,” he said. “I had the perfect situation. Wife was finer than a mug, kept giving me babies, still finer than a mug. I had it all, and I don’t make excuses. I know I messed up.”
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Shaq added that Shaunie, 47, did everything she could to have a lasting marriage, including giving birth to their four beautiful kids taking care of their home and managing the corporate stuff.
“It was just all me,” he said. “Sometimes, when you make a lot of mistakes like that, you can’t really come back from that.”
“As I get older and dwell on situations, I can honestly say it was all me, because I was big time.”
Shaunie has since moved on, getting engaged to pastor Keion Henderson in November 2021. Shaunie and Keion Henderson got engaged after dating for two years.
“She’s happy now,” Shaq said. “She’s about to marry a fine, young gentleman, and I’m happy for her, and we have a great relationship.”
Shaquille O’Neal and Shaunie married in 2002. They separated in 2007, only to briefly reconcile. Shaunie filed for divorce the second time in 2009, and it was finalized in 2011. They share four children together: Shareef, 22, Amirah, 20, Shaqir, 19, and Me’arah, 15.
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