From our less than up-close-and-personaI vantage, Steph and Ayesha Curry appear to be the perfect couple.
Three adorable children. NBA championship glory. A culinary-media empire. A partnership bolstered by a strong sense of faith. … And lots and lots of money.
But it all might not have happened had they listened to Gabrielle Union. Turns out that she once actually encouraged Ayesha to break up with Steph — and, gasp, have sex with other people
Union, who grew up in the Bay Area and also married an NBA player, went live on Instagram with her husband Dwyane Wade and Steph and Ayesha, and recalled that very bad piece of advice.
“I was like, ‘You guys, the likelihood of this working out is very low and you should just break up now and have sex with other people,’” she said. “I used a little different language but is that not what I told y’all both?”
Ayesha replied, “You looked at me and said, ‘How old are you? OK …’” And Gabrielle responded with, “Precisely, because I was a THOT.”
Obviously, Gabrielle feels much different about it now — after observing Ayesha and Steph, who started their journey as high school sweethearts.
“There are very, very few people that I have met who have been consistent,” Gabrielle said. “I’ve known you guys for well over a decade and there are a lot of people who talk about faith and there’s a lot of people who talk about moving the culture forward, but something isn’t real somewhere.
“And when people are like, ‘Are they real?’ And I’m like ‘yes!”
Wade later chimed in to apologize to Ayesha and Stephen saying, “That’s not who we are anymore.”
However, Union doesn’t exactly regret what she said.
“Uh … I still might give the same advice,” she offered.
Union obviously knows hoops. She was an all-league point guard at Foothill High School in Pleasanton, and she grew up as a huge Warriors fan.
But couples therapy? Uh, maybe she should leave that to someone else.
