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Nivea is opening up about her former relationship withLil Wayneand unlikely friendship with Lauren London, who was carrying the rapper’s child at the same time she was also pregnant.
“He reached back out like, ‘Where have you been?’ It had been five years,” Nivea, 37, said. “He wanted to apologize for the way it ended before. And I needed a damn friend. I felt like the whole world was laughing at me.”
At the time they reconnected, Lil Wayne, 37, was expecting a son, Dwayne Carter III, now 10, with his ex, Sarah Vivan, 32. He was already dad to his now 20-year-old daughter Reginae (whom he shares with ex Antonia Wright), and Nivea had three kids from her marriage to The-Dream, 42, a daughter named Navy, 14, and twin sons named London and Christian, 13.
“When we reconnected, I had three [kids],” Nivea said. “I wasn’t pregnant. That’s not the reason he proposed to me or anything like that. I took it for, ‘You accepted mine.’ If this occurred before us and we’re just now getting back to it, why wouldn’t I accept that son if you’re telling me you want to marry me? So that was that.”
As their relationship progressed, Nivea found out she was pregnant with her fourth child, Lil Wayne’s son Neal, now 9. The same day, though, she found out that London, 34, was also pregnant with Lil Wayne’s child, who was due just a few months before her son.
“I found out the day I was confirmed pregnant with our son that he had another one that should be expected three months ahead of ours,” Nivea said. “I’m like ‘Wow.’ Then my mama died. So yeah, life!”
While pregnant with their son, Nivea decided to end her relationship with Lil Wayne.
“I ended our relationship while I was carrying our son was because I couldn’t take that,” she said. “I thought I could. I’m a different type of woman. I was like, ‘You know what? You love me? F— it!’ But then I realized that’s not what I wanted. So I let it go.”
The complicated situation actually helped Nivea build a friendship with London, who supported her during a difficult time in which Nivea also lost her mom.
“It was very crushing, then she and I became very close, ironically, after he and I decided to let it go,” she said. “She was a real good friend to me during my mother’s death. I know that sounds weird, but we were two people going through something that was along the lines of humiliating. It felt like, who else could you share this oddly unique situation with?”
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London, the longtime girlfriend of the lateNipsey Hussle, with whom she later shared a 3-year-old son named Kross, gave birth to a son named Kameron with Lil Wayne on Sept. 9, 2009. Almost three months later, on Nov. 30, Nivea welcomed Neal, her son with Lil Wayne.
source: people.com
