Category: What she said

Divorce, Failed Relationships, What she said

T.D Jakes’ Daughter, Sarah Henson Ending 4 Year Marriage

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The youngest daughter of mega church Pastor T.D. Jakes is divorcing her husband, former NFL football player Robert Henson after just 4 years of marriage. Sarah married Robert when she was only 19 years old. This was a really quick marriage. I remember their elaborate ceremony posted in “Jet magazine” back in 2008. Here we are, four-year later and they’re divorcing.

Henson (Jakes daughter), released the following statement regarding her divorce:

I have built my ministry and identity around being the best wife and a mother I can be. For quite sometime I have tried to steer through some serious troubles at home and as much as I wanted my marriage to last, it cannot.
 
After professional counseling, and prayerful consideration I have decided to end my four-year marriage. There are biblical grounds supporting this decision and I have attempted every other recourse but after multiple infractions over the course of the union, and for my personal safety and that of my children, I have come to this painful decision.
 
Now that it is made, I would ask for privacy while I navigate through this difficult season in my life so that I may now concentrate on being the best parent for my children possible.
 
Thank you for your prayers.
Blog talk radio, Conversations Of A Sistah, What she said

Coming soon: “Conversations Of A Sistah” to Blog Talk Radio

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Beginning Thursday September 20, 2012 at 8:00 P.M., I will have a weekly segment on “Conversations Live” radio program; discussing real topics and bold conversations that deal with everyday issues. The name of my weekly segment is “Conversations Of A Sistah” derived from my book, my true story and autobiography.

Mr. Cyrus Webb, who is the father of “Conversations Live” will co-produce the show. “Thanks” to my readers overwhelming demand, your request was made known and has come to full fruition…Mr. Webb heard you all loud and clear!!!   🙂

In the coming weeks, I will introduce my first “hot topic” and upcoming guest, so stay tuned.

Relationships, Religion, Scandal, What she said

Bishop Eddie Long’s Wife Explains Why She Stayed …

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Vanessa Long filed for divorce from embattled preacher Eddie Long on Dec. 1, 2011. Less than 24 hours later, she retracted her petition for divorce, leaving many to wonder why she stayed?

In a tearful speech to the women of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church over the weekend, Vanessa Long explained why she stayed with a man who was accused of molesting teenage boys in his church.

“I was in a middle of a storm, and I got off the ship,” Mrs. Long said. “As much as I love my husband… I couldn’t take another minute pretending that I was okay.”

Mrs. Long said she felt like she failed the people who needed her the most — the women of the church. “After all, you felt the storm, too, and yet you stood,” she told church members.

“I realized that the best thing that I could do was to let you see me as a woman just like you,” she said as the audience erupted with applause. How else were the women/members at New Birth seeing her? As less than a woman?

I’m not married but I know wedding vows are for “better or for worse” but within common sense and rational reasoning. Vanessa Long is showing the women in her church that it’s ok to remain in a dysfunctional marriage, loveless and aligned in deceit. How sad, how very sad.

To here what Vanessa Long had to say, check the link here ->> View

Competition, Sports, What she said

Gabby Douglas tells Oprah: I was bullied & called a slave during early gymnastics training in VA…

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The Olympic gold medalist who took home the gold for her individual performance and for her work as part of the American team, tells the talk show host that things got so bad, she threatened to quit. That’s because the devil knew what was in store for her. 

“I felt I was being bullied and isolated from the group and they treated me not how they would treat their other teammates,” Douglas told Winfrey during the interview. “I definitely felt isolated. I felt like, why am I deserving this? “Is it because I’m black? Like, those thoughts would go through my mind.”

Mm, wonder how those heifers are treating her now?

Douglas, who scored two gold medals at this summer’s London Olympics, added that some of her teammates at her native Virginia Beach, Va., gym would sometimes use racial slurs against her.

“One of my teammates was like, ‘Could you scrape the bar?” she recalled. “And they were like, ‘Why doesn’t Gabby do it, she’s our slave?”

Earlier this summer, Douglas’ hairstyle became a point of discussion among Olympic fans, a fact that mystified the athlete.

“Where’s this coming from? Are you kidding me? What’s this about my hair,” she told the Daily News. “I gel it up, put some clips in it and put it in a bun. People shouldn’t be worried about that.”

To overcome cruelty, prejudice and adversity from people outside your race is one thing but to be criticized and ridiculed by your own people about something so petty as her hair, is just ridiculous!

Gabby sat down with Oprah last night on OWN. To read more of that interview click here!

Fan mail, Just a thought, Reality Television, What she said

Deliver me from the drama! Why I’ve shunned Reality TV…

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Sometimes there’s a enough drama in real life, let alone trying to catch up with someone else’s with this new craze of reality TV.

VH1 seems to be taking the lead in the reality television race with Basketball wives, Braxton Family Values, Keeping up with the Kardashians and Honey Boo-Boo, just to name a few. Fighting, arguing and viewing these characters live drama fest is apparently what feeds the stations ratings. But at what point does reality drama become too much?

I’ll admit, I use to religiously watch Basketball Wives, Love & Hip Hop and Braxton Family Values; with the Braxton’s being more geared toward decent reality television than the others. The Braxtons deal with their everyday issues from being a close-knit family (with a religious background) in the business of music with the drama that ensues. The Braxton’s drama has never escalated to the point where they’ve disgraced themselves like many of the others.

So now we have R&B Divas and Whitney Houston’s family soon to follow. Are we as a society that starved to see into other people’s lives and drama? No I’m not, which is why I had to give it up. I’m too busy starring in my own reality television and controlling the channels of negativity that I choose to keep out.

I sincerely apologize to those CEO readers who are looking to get reality show updates. Please note: that I (this blog’s host) has officially been delivered from Reality Television drama but we “thank you” for wondering.

Another inquiry provided to a loyal reader.