Gabrielle Union: Why She Feels That Way ‘Entitled’ To cheat on her first husband: ‘I Was Paying All The Bills’

Gabrielle Union The first husband she married was unfaithful, but they were a couple again. actress She says that she feels justified by her actions.

The 50-year-old discussed her stance during an appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast this week. Union married Chris Howard was an ex-NFL football player. After only four years of marriage, they separated.

“In our first marriage, neither one of us felt like the marriage should get in the way of our dating,” Union explained. 

“A part of it was like keeping up with his activities, like, ‘Oh, that’s what you’re doing? You’re going to feel this one,’ and I just felt entitled to it as well,” She shared her thoughts with Shepard. “I was paying all the bills, I was working my a** off, and I felt like that’s what comes, the spoils of riches.”

“Like my dad before me, whoever has the most gets to do whatever the hell they want is what I thought,” She went on. “It was just dysfunctional from day one.”

Shepard stated that he could relate as he had experienced the same thing. “complicated” Gefühle about cheating on past partners. Since 2013, Kristin Bell, the podcast host, has been married to Kristin.

“I wish I had more guilt for some of that,” Union spoke of her past infidelity. “It was such a stupid relationship that should have never got out of the dating phase.”

She also recalls how a therapist had helped her. “literally” told her that she couldn’t fathom how the couple “made it out of the dating phase” Howard was also there for her.

“And [the therapist said] we should probably look for a way to amicably dissolve… because you have not one thing in common, no morals, no values,” Union added. “The only thing you have in common is other people, so why don’t you just go be with other people?”

Union is married to Dwyane Wade, a former NBA star since 2014. 

Shepard continued to tell her, and she went on. “horny for validation and having certain kinds of guys like me and want me” Howard was her husband at the time she got married.

“In hindsight, yes, I absolutely needed something from them that I was not providing for myself, and neither was my marriage, but I think I provided something for them too,” Union

“Guys can be just as big as groupies, if not more, than women, so it was a trade off… We were both crappy people going through s*** and clearly not going to enough therapy.”

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