Jeannie Mai has opened up about her split from Jeezy, recounting her journey through the darkness of divorce to the light of motherhood.
On Thursday (November 20), a little over a year after finalizing her divorce from the rapper, the TV personality posted a vlog that highlighted her 3-year-old daughter, Monaco Mai Jenkins, who she shares with Jeezy.
In the video, Mai said that despite some personal challenges in the last two years, her life changed for the better.
"It cracked me open and showed me everything that I've been trying to mask. I went through things that I wouldn't wish on anybody," Mai said. "The kind of pain that shakes your faith and makes you question everything. A chapter of my life ended, one I once shared right here."
"And what looked like an ending became the awakening I never saw coming," she continued. "Because I realized how far I had abandoned myself. How often I traded peace for making broken things look whole. And when everything fell away, it stripped me down until the only person left to meet was me."
Mai added that her toddler was the one person who never let her "forget" who she was. "Seeing her run toward me, it pulled me right back into who I have been becoming," the former The Talk co-host said. "And the wildest part, the two years I feared most became the years that saved me."
"For years, I mistook chaos for love. I didn't realize how much of me disappeared along the way," Mai added elsewhere, continuing, "And after
everything I've lived through, the winds, the wounds, the rebuilding, this is the first time I've truly felt whole."
Saying "I do" on March 27, 2021, the marriage between Mai and Jeezy was shortlived and resulted in a volatile divorce that was announced in 2023. Among the exes' issues was a custody battle over their daughter, along with Mai alleging that the rapper had assaulted her.
In June, the rapper appeared on The Breakfast Club, where he said that he and Mai are now at "peace."
"I'm all about understanding. I'm all about what's best for everybody, the greater good," he said. "I don't want no enemies, I don't want no issues, I just want peace, I just want joy and I just want freedom. I love my freedom."