Ne-Yo opened up about his “phenomenal” polyamorous relationship with “4 stunning women.”
“I'm in an excellent house,” the “So Sick” rapper, 45, revealed throughout an look on Kai Cenat's YouTube stream on Wednesday, September 10 (by way of People). “I'm at the moment in a polyamorous relationship. I've 4 stunning women that transfer with me on the common.”
Ne-Yo (actual identify Shaffer Chimere Smith) went public along with his polyamorous life-style in February, following his cut up from ex-wife Crystal Renay Williams in 2022. On the time, he launched his girlfriends as Cristina (a.ok.a. “Fairly Child”), Arielle (a.ok.a. “Twin Flame”), Moneii (a.ok.a “Phoenix Feather”) and Bri (a.ok.a. “Attractive Lil' Somethin'”).
Throughout his look on Cenat's stream, Ne-Yo spoke in regards to the practicalities of his 4 relationships. For instance, all of them sleep in extra-large Alaskan King beds that Ne-Yo in comparison with “two California King [mattresses] subsequent to one another.”
Viewers additionally discovered that Ne-Yo is just not “legally married” to any of the 4 ladies he's seeing, but he nonetheless considers every of them his “wives.”
Requested why he determined to pursue polyamory after his divorce, Ne-Yo candidly admitted: “I'm 45 years previous. At this level in my life, the whole lot I do is about what's finest for me, what's finest for my youngsters [and] what's finest for my tribe. That's it.”
The musician went on, “I'm going to maintain it a buck with you. I used to be married earlier than this to 1 lady. Issues didn't go effectively. I made my errors. We acquired divorced. Lots of people acquired damage within the course of, and I instructed myself at that second I ain't mendacity to no one about nothing ever once more.”
Ne-Yo talked about he was already seeing one in every of his present “wives” when he broke the information to her that he wished to pursue a number of ladies on the identical time.
Ne-Yo and two ladies kiss in December 2024. Prince Williams/WireImage
“I went, ‘Hear, you realize I rock with you. I completely rock with you. Nevertheless it ain't simply you,'” he defined. “‘I additionally rock together with her, and her, and her. So what I wanna do is carry this complete factor collectively. When you with it, let's rock. When you're not, that's cool too. No love misplaced. You go your manner and I am going mine. That's the one manner it really works.'”
The Grammy Award-winning artist is a father of seven. He shares daughter Madilyn Grace, born in 2010, and son Mason Evan, born in 2011, with former Actual Housewives of Atlanta star Monyetta Shaw-Carter, and later had sons Shaffer Chimere Jr. and Roman Alexander-Raj, born in 2016 and 2018, respectively, and daughter Isabella Rose, born in 2021, with ex-wife Williams. Ne-Yo and former accomplice Sade Jenea Bagnerise are dad and mom to sons Braiden and Brixton, born in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
In February, Ne-Yo confirmed throughout a radio interview that he was trustworthy with all of his youngsters about pursuing polyamory.
Ne-Yo is apologizing to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood for his latest feedback about youngsters discovering their gender identification. “After a lot reflection, I'd like to precise my deepest apologies to anybody that I'll have damage with my feedback on parenting and gender identification,” Ne-Yo (actual identify Shaffer Chimere Smith), 43, wrote in a press release by way of X […]
“I reply them [truthfully],” he insisted throughout an look on The Rickey Smiley Morning Present. “[It's] honesty. I'm not mendacity to no one, not even my youngsters.”
He went on, “It's like, ‘Hey, that is daddy's girlfriend.' And so is that, and so is that, and so is that. She gonna make you some cereal, she gonna prepare dinner lunch and he or she gonna wash your garments.' And it's all good.”
Ne-Yo additionally harassed that he wasn't “manipulating” or “brainwashing” any of his 4 girlfriends.
“All people's trustworthy,” Ne-Yo insisted. “All people's telling the reality. All people is consenting. I really feel like I wasted quite a lot of time simply being dishonest about issues, to the purpose the place had I taken this method initially, I may've saved myself quite a lot of headache and heartache.”
