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"To say I was devastated...": Dwyane Wade's wife Gabrielle Union once penned in her memoir the pain she felt when Dwyane Wade fathered a child during their break

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Dwyane Wade and his wife, Gabrielle Union, are considered to be one of the happiest and strongest couples in the world of the NBA and Hollywood. While the two have been married for more than a decade, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union had to go through a lot of painful experiences to reach this stage. In 2021, when Hollywood actress Gabrielle Union released her memoir, You Got Anything Stronger?, she opened up about their relationship.

Gabrielle Union opened up in 2021 about how she felt "devastated" when she learnt that Dwyane Wade fathered a child with a long time friend of his
Back in 2013, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union decided to take a break when they were still dating. At this point, Dwyane Wade ended up fathering a child with another woman. Things got messy when Gabrielle Union came back into his life.

In 2021, when Gabrielle Union released her memoir, she opened up about exactly what she felt at that point.

In her memoir, Gabrielle Union wrote, "In 2013, before we were married, Dwyane had a baby with another woman. It should go without saying that we were not in a good place in our relationship at the time that child was conceived.”

She added, "To say I was devastated is to pick a word on a low shelf for convenience. There are people - strangers who I will never meet - who have been upset that I have not previously talked about that trauma.”

Gabrielle Union penned, “I have not had words, and even after untold amounts of therapy I am not sure I have them now. But truth matters."

In 2023, Dwyane Wade opened up about this incident on Shannon Sharpe’s popular podcast, Club Shay Shay, where he reiterated that he never betrayed Gabrielle Union’s trust and all of these things happened when they were on a break.


The couple sorted out their differences and a month after Dwyane Wade and the other woman welcomed their son, Xavier, the NBA legend and Gabrielle Union got engaged in December 2013.


By 2014, the couple had tied the knot and continue to be in a happy, healthy and strong marriage. Even after Dwyane Wade’s recent struggle against cancer, the couple have come out of it together.


Also Read: "Tried to break up with her": Dwyane Wade once spoke about wanting to end things with Gabrielle Union as another woman was pregnant with his child
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