Damon Wayans Sr. has detailed his “awkward” household gatherings after he fell in love together with his nephew’s ex-girlfriend.
The “My Wife and Kids” alum, 64, revealed the relationship oversight throughout an look on Shannon Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay podcast” final week.
“This can’t be true… that you dated the same woman that your nephew was?” the previous NFL star requested the comic.
“I was in love with her, that’s the thing,” Wayans, 64, stated.
“You ain’t never done the Jackson 5?” he quipped, referencing Jermaine Jackson marrying his brother Randy Jackson’s ex-girlfriend, Alejandra Oaziaza.
Wayans clarified that his nephew and the girl, whom he didn’t title, weren’t “in love” throughout their ill-fated relationship.
Sharpe, who was visibly greatly surprised on the revelation, added, “That’s off limits, Damon.”
“No, but it wasn’t like they were in love,” the “Major Payne” alum responded. “You know how small the pool is out here in Cali? The dating pool?”
He then clarified that he fell in love with the girl round 2001 — noting that the connection came about after his divorce from Lisa Thorner.
“I got divorced and I was by myself for two years,” he stated. “And then I saw her [his nephew’s ex] and I was just like, ‘Oh my God. I’m in love.’ And then I found out my nephew had dated [her].”
Wayans admitted that regardless of his robust emotions for the girl, he made positive to talk to his nephew earlier than kickstarting something severe along with her.
“I’m like, you know, ‘What’s up?’ and he’s like, ‘That’s you.’ And I’m like, ‘Okay, pass the Courvoisier, let’s go!’ And I went ahead and I fell in love and it was okay,” he defined.
Nonetheless, the romance seemingly shifted the dynamics inside the household, he admits.
“Family gatherings is awkward,” he quipped.
Elsewhere within the interview, Wayans admitted that he “made a lot of money” in residual checks from “My Wife and Kids,” which ran from 2001 to 2005.
The candid revelation got here after Sharpe introduced up Bentley Evans’s current feedback on the “Holdin’ Court” podcast, by which he stated he by no means acquired a syndication examine from “The Jamie Foxx Show” — regardless of being the speak present’s co-creator, author and showrunner.
“It was on a network, right?” Wayans stated of “The Jamie Foxx Show,” which aired on The WB from 1996 to 2001. “I made a lot of money off of ‘My Wife and Kids.’ I can’t relate to that.”
“With WB, my brothers didn’t really make money off the Wayan’s Brothers show. Like I said, I made a lot of money from ‘Wife and Kids.’ I still get checks,” he added. “Not to rub it in but I still get checks.”
The hit sitcom aired for a complete of 5 seasons, and have become syndicated in September 2005.
