La La Anthony Reflects on Carmelo Anthony Divorce: ‘You G…
La La Anthony has spent some time reflecting on her relationship with former NBA star Carmelo Anthony, who she divorced a few years ago.
The TV personality and actor sat down with Angie Martinez for an episode of her IRL Podcast, which was released on Wednesday (August 20), where the pair discussed love and heartbreak.
“I’m sure there’s moments after everything that happened that you probably didn’t want to get up off the floor,” Martinez said to Anthony about her divorce around the 47:15 minute mark in the video below.
“Yes, of course. The hardest part of my life and then playing it out publicly,” Anthony responded, reflecting on that time of her life.
“They’re watching everything. So then you have the fake smile … and you’re fucking dying inside,” she continued. “It is incredibly hard, incredibly hard. But what are you going to do? You gotta push forward, every day a little bit stronger until you get past it.”
“And there are days, could be years later where something will just hit you and it’ll just hurt or remind you of something,” Anthony went on. “I always say, nobody gets married with the thought of getting divorced. You don’t marry somebody thinking I’m going to get divorced. You marry somebody thinking that’s who you’re going to be with for the rest of your life and this is your life.
“So when that changes, it’s like, ‘Oh, what do I do now? I wasn’t prepared for this. This is not what I thought was going to happen.’ You have to. You have to keep going. You got to live.”
La La and Melo started dating in 2003 and became engaged the following year, on Christmas Day. Before walking down the aisle in 2010, they welcomed their first and only child together, their son Kiyan Carmelo Anthony in 2007.
According to La La, their relationship began to unravel in 2011, when Melo was traded to the New York Knicks. In 2022, the 43-year-old revealed on the Call Her Daddy podcast that the “scrutiny” from the media made things “really hard.”
“That’s not the only reason things didn’t work out, but things got tough with New York, just constantly being under the spotlight and people watching every little thing,” La La told host Alex Cooper.
La La later filed for divorce in 2021, citing irreconcilable differences, with their divorce reportedly finalized between 2021 and 2022.
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