Jeannie Mai has shared that she equates divorce to death two years after parting ways with Jeezy.
The ex-spouses, who share a four-year-old daughter, Monaco, went through a very public custody battle following the rapper’s petition for divorce in 2023 after just one year of marriage.
Appearing on the Thursday (January 29) episode of podcast Question Everything, Mai opened up about just how painful divorce was to her. The television personality was previously married to TV host Freddy Harteis from 2007 to 2018.
Around the 28-minute mark of the video below, Mai expressed her relief that Monaco wouldn’t remember the "turmoil" between her parents upon the dissolution of their marriage. "That's not something I want her to ever have to think about. My job is to define peace for her. So, she's going to get that," Mai said.
The former host of The Real added that divorce is a "wreckage" on entire families and that "with children it’s harder" for parents to split up. "Divorce, it’s experiencing death alive," she said.
"There's no way to understand that feeling of space shared with somebody and all of a sudden it closing in, to where you even wonder if you can trust yourself in your thoughts because one day you had a plan and you had these thoughts and then suddenly it becomes something else," Mai added.
During her divorce from Jeezy, she accused the rapper of domestic abuse and endangering their daughter with firearms not being locked up at his home. The Trap or Die artist denied both allegations, and after a contentious divorce, he and Mai were eventually able to find a resolution.
In a vlog posted last December, Mai called divorce "earth-shattering and a wake-up call." "It’s because the life that you pictured disappears and the future you actually need starts calling out to you," he said.