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Usher: "Family Guy"

Posted Dec 22nd 2007 12:32AM by Karu F. Daniels



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The most buzzed about Black Entertainment News story of 2007 had to be the family drama of R&B superstar Usher.

Dogged by rumors that his near-40-year-old former fashion stylist turned girlfriend Tameka Foster was pregnant with his first child (her fourth), the couple wound up planning a lavish wedding for July.

Shortly before the nuptials, the five-time Grammy Award winner fired his long time manager Jonetta Patton – who's also his mother, and his longtime publicist Simone Smalls, leaving many people to wonder "WTF?"

On the day of the big wedding, it was abruptly canceled for reasons unknown. The next week, the couple quietly "married" at his Atlanta attorney's office. Just before his first born son, Usher Raymond V, was born, Usher launched his eponymous fragrance line – which became an instant success, and was in talks to return to Broadway.

Oh, and the recently converted Scientologist is working on a new music project, too.


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1. Usher is a Scientlogist? Wow! He's keeping that on the DL.

Marsha at 8:32AM on Dec 28th 2007

2. What Usher decides is really what Usher decides, he's an adult and should be able to make decisions and be able to understand the consequences. We as older adults with more life experiences still, from time to time make bad decisions. Let's not be judgemental. I for one, had a relationship with an older woman at one time and learned alot about love and sex. The two are not one and the same. Love is not sex and sex in not love. You can have sex with a person you love but remember, they are not one and the same. Never get love confused with sex, it can drive you nuts.

Gfine2000@aol.com at 10:04PM on Dec 28th 2007

3. At the end of the day, none of us are there in this grown man's life which makes us unqualified to judge what decisions in his life are mistakes or not... One thing for sure, the media loves a juciy story so of course stories can be slanted about peoples real lives all in the name of entertaining the masses... Really we all need to get a life and mind our own affairs!!!!!

Nikka at 12:33PM on Dec 29th 2007

4. You live and you will learn.

Maureen at 6:30PM on Dec 29th 2007

5. Scientilogist? Goodness

Kayisha at 12:10PM on Dec 31st 2007

6. Having had several relationships that were based on sex rather than love and confusing the two each time, I have to agree with the gentleman who pointed that out. However, Mr Raymond has to figure these things out for himself. I wish him the best in all of his endeavors.

Zenobia at 12:17PM on Dec 31st 2007

7. I Love Usher but, like Maureen said you live and you learn. Sometimes we have to go through to learn a lesson. But this scientology thing, man Usher I did not know you had went Tom Cruise on us.

Tanya at 1:50PM on Dec 31st 2007

8. We all go through things that at that time make decisions that we think best for that situation and u never know what ursher is going through but its his life right or not but scienctologist?

LaWanda at 4:04PM on Dec 31st 2007

9. The problem with alot of people is that we make these entertainers out to be some big superhero and forget that there people just like us and the first time we hear some gossip about them we turn so judgemental in good or bad decisions Usher makes the right decision was to get married before Little Usher V was born cause God told him to lets learn how to lift each other up instead of tearing each other down it has nothing to do with sex its all about being in love or you just love the person because that is the differents so I pray for him his mother and I thank God for his new healthy baby.

Ms. Kenisha Dickson at 6:41PM on Dec 31st 2007

10. Usher I hope You read this But I've have been a fan since the poetic justice soundtrack your first single "Call Me A Mack" and I pray for you and your mother have faith in God and things will work out I would love to meet you and hurry up and bring out your next CD I know its going to be hot wishing you all the best

Ms. Kenisha Dickson at 6:49PM on Dec 31st 2007

11. is his religion really a big deal? i was raised christian until the age of 20.. (for 3 1/2 years i researched different religions and practices) at the age of 24, i converted to buddhist and it was the best thing i could have done.. so i think when people find some type of relgion or believe or way of life that makes them happy thats what makes them prosper in life and makes things right for them.. so go usher!! do yo thang!! and ill be at virgin mega store at midnight to get your cd before everyone else does.. hehe.. ;-)

Dream at 9:03PM on Dec 31st 2007

12. What he does with his life is his business. We have no control over who we fall in love with and what really happened between him and his mother, we will never know the truth, but is it really our business, I think not! However, I still think his wife looks like a man! LMAO

penni at 3:31AM on Jan 2nd 2008

13. Sounds to me everybody is thinkin the samething..sayin-it-or-not,all same idea,mr.usher u r so young with soooo much life ahead of you.If u know this or not..NO one will be there 4 u like a mom.you have made her both rich and proud...NO way on earth would she tell you wrong,we don't do it like that,u started with nothin LOOK at YOU now.I wish you get-it-and get-it ez,cause life ain't...here's lookin at you kid.signed a mom with 2 son's one grandson.

realbible4 at 11:05PM on Jan 2nd 2008

14. uh.....where are the family pictures????? iám just sayin familyman.......?

realbible4 at 11:19PM on Jan 2nd 2008

15. a scientology go to tom cruse site he knows what that is. usher is not a scentology his wife is so a read. usher never said he was and he isw not planing to say that he is he always reading a bible and his wife to. so i dont beleve that there are usher beleve in god and he said that he and his wife are choosng wish picturs to put out so everbody can see there son am sure usher and his family will be in the pices dont know his wife sons but am sure that is will be out soon. as far as usher being a scientoloy is not true. brandy the singer is a scientology and she been one ever sence her baby girl was born and got dump by her boyfriend.

sweetface at 9:40AM on Jan 3rd 2008

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