Tough Childhood Left Shaquille O’Neal Hungry For Love, Claimed Ex-Wife Weeks Before Mom Lucille’s Confession

When Shaunie Henderson’s memoir launched in Could, her youngsters, her husband, and even ex-husband reacted. Shaquille O’Neal’s response on it was the one everybody wished to know. Shaq’s response to his ex’s memoir was cordial and awfully regarding but it surely confirmed that he’s previous his variations with Shaunie. However by no means earlier than did we all know the connection between Shaq’s mom and Shaunie. Lucille O’Neal acknowledged her ideas about Shaunie née Nelson, from the time she was her son’s girlfriend to their divorce, bluntly on Sway Within the Morning. However earlier than Lucille’s confession about ex-DIL Shaunie, the Basketball Wives star too shared somewhat about ex-husband Shaq’s childhood in her guide, implying he was hungry for heat and affection.

Undefeated detailed Shaunie’s childhood and relationship together with her household however she additionally gave perception into her understanding of Shaq’s childhood. “From the time we began courting, I knew Shaquille wished to have an enormous household, with a lot of youngsters,” she wrote. “I’ve typically thought that his personal upbringing made him cling to the concept of household. He grew up in a navy household, raised by his stepfather, Phillip Harrison, a profession sergeant within the military who most individuals got here to know as ‘Sarge. Sarge was a troublesome mum or dad, extraordinarily strict, and I feel Shaquille hungered for the sort of heat, loving household he hadn’t skilled.”

By Shaq’s personal account, his (step)father was a strict man who didn’t enable slacking off in basketball or lecturers. Philip Harrison saved Shaq on the NBA observe but additionally insisted he full school. He was not forgiving about Shaq’s mischief both. One of many key classes Shaq has discovered as a dad is to be a supplier as Sarge emphasised to Shaq the youthful youngsters and/or ladies within the family ought to be precedence. As fondly as Shaq speaks of Harrison and misses him to today, Shaunie seemingly felt that left Shaq affection-deprived.

In the identical guide, Shaunie had detailed that her personal mom was strict, narrating her scary response to Shaunie as soon as skipping college. However her mother’s love language was louder. Which will have contrasted Shaq’s upbringing to her, regardless that her guide attracts parallels to her personal dishonest father.

After Shaunie’s guide climbed to the highest of the NY Instances Bestseller record, Lucille O’Neal joined Steph Curry’s mother on a radio present. There she didn’t maintain again about what she considered her son’s ex.

Lucille O’Neal noticed the tip of Shaq and Shaunie’s marriage

Sitting subsequent to Sonya Curry, Lucille confessed, “It’s onerous to see them go right into a relationship and one way or the other you could really feel perhaps that may not be the precise relationship.” Nonetheless, Lucille selected to maintain it to herself, not intrude and let Shaq and Shaunie’s relationship transfer naturally.

Shaq and Shaunie started courting when he signed with the Lakers, welcomed two youngsters collectively, obtained married in 2002, and had two extra youngsters. They separated in 2009 and finalized their divorce in 2011. He took responsibility for their divorce, responding, “I wouldn’t have been in love with me either,” to Shaunie stating that she wasn’t in love with Shaq in her guide.

Lucille maintained she was not aggressive with Shaunie or any of her youngsters’s companions for her place of their lives. However from the sounds of it, she’s going to be protecting about her youngsters until the tip.

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