It has been quite some time since Tashera Simmons, the ex-wife of rapper DMX, ended her relationship with the New York emcee, and during a recent interview with Forbez DVD Live, Simmons revealed the exact reason why she chose to file for divorce.
Despite DMX’s constant struggle with drugs, his ex-wife revealed that it was his infidelity that convinced her to officially put an end to their lengthy relationship.
“The day that I finally decided to do that wasn’t cause of the drugs, sadly,” Simmons said. “I mean, he would run all over me. Talk any kind of way. Anything, in front of the kids with the drugs. I still felt like I made an oath. That was my husband through thick and thin. I felt like that drug was a disease. So, I wasn’t gonna leave him, but when he started having kids and he didn’t seem remorseful. And on top of that I felt like ‘Damn, you supposed to be my husband. My protector. You’re having unsafe sex not once, but like seven times.’ That showed me he really didn’t care. He took my kindness for weakness.”
In addition to DMX’s relations with other women, Simmons says there was another incident that proved vital in her decision to leave X. According to the You Think You Know, You Have No Idea author, her oldest son Xavier Simmons threatened to kill his father the next time he was verbally abusive to his mother.
“The three little ones they used to be very afraid of him because all they can remember is him yelling through the house and cursing me,” she said. “Xavier used to be afraid of him and that’s what actually—with the combination of the kids and him telling me one day that he’s gonna kill his father the next time he talks to me like that is what broke me up because I wasn’t gonna do it for myself obviously. But when I saw that hate in his eyes I was like it’s time for me to make a decision because I don’t want my son to grow up and think that that was okay.”
After being away from his father for a year and a half, Xavier Simmons recently reunited with DMX during an episode of the OWN television show Iyanla Fix My Life. Tashera Simmons, who also appeared on the show, recalled watching her son “cry his heart out” during his conversation with DMX.
“When they asked me for my son to be on the show I said, ‘Absolutely not’ because he’s been through enough,” Simmons said. “And I ran it by him just to say, ‘You know what they wanna’ and he said, ‘Mom, I want to confront my father.’ I’m like, ‘You sure you ready for that?’ And he said, ‘I’m ready.’ So, I didn’t ask him what he was gonna say because I didn’t want to try to, you know, put anything in his head because he’s seen everything anyway. I didn’t see it actually until it aired and it made me cry…It was meant for me not to be there because it would have went—because I’ve never lost my character on TV. I’m a real humble person, but to see my child cry his heart out…And he was trying to justify his wrong to his child.”
In addition to Iyanla Fix My Life, DMX and his ex-wife have appeared on the VH1 reality show Couples Therapy.
Yet all those years you spent his money.
Hahhahaha what money
To whoever this is who said “hahahaha what money”…. you must either be 15 years old, or a troll.
This nigga DMX was the highest selling rapper of his era besides Eminem. Yes more than Jay-Z. And he was getting $5 Million per year to star in those movies he played in.
She said on The Breakfast club at their peak, he had about 48 million in the bank. That nigga X did his thang. Where you been?
“Yet all those years you spent his money.”
yes thats usually how it works when you get married and start a family with someone…
You mean all those years she spent raising his children alone while he was out fucking groupies and smoking crack livin his second childhood
Fuck this greedy butt tissue, nasty skank whore wants to write a book, greedy ass cunt bitch. Ugly crack dookie
LMAO!!! Dag gee, you seem upset. LOL
at least by writing a book she getting her own money not sitting around waiting for DMX to come thru with 2005’s child support
tell em why u mad son!!!!! – mad rapper voice lol
This bitch is ugly.
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we don’t support them. Ironic if you tell me. Oh well Beyonce will stay on top for the coming weeks cause her fanbase support her.
I definitely won’t do this pyramid bullshit.
DMX is a disgusting human being but in this era of misguided youth he would probably be called a real ni99er. No self respecting man abuses his wife in front of his children and squanders his childrens future on crack binges and groupies. DMX is a sick man who needs help.
at least he is a real rapper instead of all those fake gangsta rappers who say i beat my bitch. DMX is the truth wheter he is right or wrong
“DMX is the truth wheter he is right or wrong”
Fuck outta here !
This has nothing to do with any kind of “truth” you bitch ass nigga.
Just because the dude actually smokes crack, cheats on his wife, impregnates seven hoes, and drives like a motherfucker DOES NOT make him the “truth” !!
What a fucked up way of thinkin you have face fuck !
This is exactly the kind of mentality that misleads the youth when a deal of 6 million dollars is given to some ignorant assholes (who think just like you) to rap over some beats and spit this type of bullshit.
DMX is far away from being the “truth”. The dude is nothin but fuckin sick and mentally ill.
Yes, he was the shit back in 1998 when he dropped his first LP. But his greatness (if he ever had one) was just on the rap level. As far as a human being he proved many times he was lost and he needed some help.
So if you plan to say some stupid shits like you just did, here is an advice that might be helpful for your sorry ass : keep yourself away from any form of expression and shut the fuck up.
DMX is a victim of the system, a product of his environment, i really do hope he comes to realize he is a very special person, alot of people look up to him. I pray that brother gets his life together for the sake of his kids… #RS
I’ve seen dudes with better weaves than this broad ya dig
how many men bitch and talk about their exes personally after they break up? People like this are the worst.
Drake has made 3 albums doing just that
but do they name names?
“at least he is real”
Real broke.
Real retarded.
“DMX is a victim of the system”
Did the system force him to stick his dick in every ho around the way? Seriously. We all liked his old music, but from a human being standpoint, he’s probably in the top three of biggest losers out there. Dude has burned so many bridges. It’s unbelievable where he could be today if he had just made better choices.
“Drake has made 3 albums doing just that”
Difference was he wasn’t married to any of them.
thats even worse
“yes thats usually how it works when you get married and start a family with someone”
I knew a simple response such as this was coming. Fortunately, I’m prepared. She could have just as easily divorced X after his third album sold 5 million, and gotten plenty to start over. Obviously ghetto love is blind, and obviously very tolerant, but to spend his money all that time he was out fucking around doesn’t mean now she deserves her own fifteen minutes crying about it.
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Dmx is a great rapper and inspiring great person with a lot of demons most of y’all can’t even begin to understand he raps what he knows and he never fronts he gonna get through his issues one way or another he always has he’s a dog and a fighter
This bytch got a giant forehead
You have too much time in your hands. Get a life you sad like wanker!
No, he’s spot on, she has a big ol forehead
It’s actually more like a sevenhead
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/W5vF1RC4tBw/mqdefault.jpg
How is that worse? Drake reflected on personal things that fit the tone of his music. Would you prefer he talked about how happy all his relationships were? Then you’d blast him for being so optimistic. He can’t win.