$70K Paid to Iman Shumpert Is ‘Best Little…
Teyana Taylor refuses to let her 2024 divorce from Iman Shumpert weigh her down.
The Escape Room vocalist, who was married to Shumpert from 2016 to 2023, lightly touched on the split during a visit to The Breakfast Club on Wednesday (August 27). Earlier this month, the One Battle After Another star was reportedly ordered to pay Shumpert $70,000 after being found in contempt of court. Shumpert referenced an Instagram Live from March where his ex-wife publicly addressed their breakup.
Around the 14-minute mark of the video below, Taylor addressed the “rumors” that she took “everything” from Shumpert.
“And it’s just like now I’m being called out my name,” she said, adding that she was “confused” about the allegations.
When Breakfast Club co-host Jess Hilarious brought up Taylor’s “$70,000 bill” for “defending herself,” Taylor called it “the best little coin” she’s ever spent.
Elsewhere, Taylor explained that having to speak “the truth” on Instagram “hurt” her because she allegedly contacted Shumpert beforehand.
“I thought we were on great terms,” she said. “I said, ‘Hey, baby daddy, So something’s coming back to me that you and your people is sending out stuff. I said, ‘But it’s really hard to believe that because we’re in a really great space.'”
Shumpert allegedly denied that he was leaking information, believing that it was Taylor instead. “That’s when I was like, ‘Well, what would I gain out of looking like I took a Black man for all he got when you know I spent my hard earned money on the things that I have’,” she continued.
Taylor also lightly touched on her divorce in a new i-D cover story, which was published on Wednesday. Taylor is currently dating actor Aaron Pierre but shares two daughters with her ex-husband, Iman “Junie” Tayla Shumpert Jr., 9, and Rue Rose Shumpert, 4.
“I got two little beings to live for. So to be stuck here sitting, being angry and hurt? No,” Taylor told the publication in reference to her divorce.
Earlier in the interview, Taylor said that she was no longer in “survival mode.”
“Once you take a woman out of survival mode, she will blossom, and I feel like I’ve blossomed out loud into the woman that I’ve always been versus being blocked by rain and thunder,” she said. “Now, it’s just clear skies. That’s what Escape Room represents. I don’t have to be trapped in one room.”
Taylor and Shumpert’s divorce proceedings went public a little over a year after a TikTok made unsubstantiated claims that the athlete was cheating on Taylor and that she’d turned to drugs. In the messy split, Taylor alleged in her divorce filing that Shumpert treated her “cruelly” and demonstrated “extreme narcissistic behavior throughout the majority of their marriage.”
Although the divorce was settled last July, more allegations resurfaced that Taylor was issued a seven-figure settlement and four marital residences worth more than $10 million in the divorce. Shumpert reportedly retained his Decatur property, a South Georgia ranch, and a Miami condo and was ordered to pay $8,000 in child support along with his daughter’s private school tuition.
In April, Shumpert spoke on his former marriage on podcast Tap In With TT, where he said that he and Taylor shared “great years together” and that there’s “nothing wrong” with their joint custody arrangement.
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