Ne-Yo opened up about his “phenomenal” polyamorous relationship with “4 stunning girls.”
“I’m in a fantastic area,” the “So Sick” rapper, 45, revealed throughout an look on Kai Cenat’s YouTube stream on Wednesday, September 10 (through Folks). “I’m at present in a polyamorous relationship. I’ve 4 stunning girls 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 break up from ex-wife Crystal Renay Williams in 2022. On the time, he launched his girlfriends as Cristina (a.okay.a. “Fairly Child”), Arielle (a.okay.a. “Twin Flame”), Moneii (a.okay.a “Phoenix Feather”) and Bri (a.okay.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 shouldn’t be “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, every little thing I do is about what’s greatest for me, what’s greatest for my children [and] what’s greatest 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 girl. Issues didn’t go properly. I made my errors. We bought divorced. Lots of people bought harm within the course of, and I informed myself at that second I ain’t mendacity to no person about nothing ever once more.”
Ne-Yo talked about he was already seeing one in all 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, ‘Pay attention, you recognize I rock with you. I completely rock with you. But it surely 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. If you happen to with it, let’s rock. If you happen to’re not, that’s cool too. No love misplaced. You go your approach and I am going mine. That’s the one approach 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 companion Sade Jenea Bagnerise are mother and father 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 id. “After a lot reflection, I’d like to precise my deepest apologies to anybody that I could have harm with my feedback on parenting and gender id,” Ne-Yo (actual identify Shaffer Chimere Smith), 43, wrote in an announcement through 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 person, 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 she or he gonna wash your garments.’ And it’s all good.”
Ne-Yo additionally careworn that he wasn’t “manipulating” or “brainwashing” any of his 4 girlfriends.
“Everyone’s trustworthy,” Ne-Yo insisted. “Everyone’s telling the reality. Everyone is consenting. I really feel like I wasted a number of time simply being dishonest about issues, to the purpose the place had I taken this strategy initially, I might’ve saved myself a number of headache and heartache.”
