Snoop Dogg Confesses: I Wanted To Split With My Wife
December 22nd, 2007
Rapper Snoop Dogg has revealed in an interview that he became caught up in Hollywood and the entertainment industry and almost left his wife and family, before deciding that "home was irreplaceable".
In an interview with the Associated Press, Snoop Dogg – who’s real name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus – reveals that he wanted to split with his wife, Shante, and even filed for divorce in 2004 after seven years together.
"I was going to split up with my wife – my wife wasn’t going to split up with me," he says.
"You know, I was caught up with Hollywood, and the girls and the night life. I thought I was the man and I was willing to give up what I had at home for that, until I realized that what I had at home was irreplaceable, so I gave that up to go back home."
He said his children were a major factor in his decision to stay with his wife, saying, "I just don’t want another man raising my kids. That was the main goal. I had kids with my wife because I wanted to be with my wife. And those three babies are all wanted, and I wanted to be with them."
Promoting his new reality tv show ‘Father Hood’ for the E! Channel, Broadus discussed why he’s letting camera’s inside his home to show his family life.
"Sometimes you lose focus because this Hollywood entertainment world can throw you off track. hat’s why you see me doing things like this television show and my own football league, and the positive things I do, because I’m back aware again."
He continues, "I was being portrayed negative in the media and I had to figure out a way to show all the postive things I’m doing by also incoporating my wife and kids, and showing that I’m a real person, and not just a super bad guy or a super hero as they always portray me as."
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