WHAT DO *YOU* THINK ABOUT THIS?: Idris Elba opens up & reveals BELOVED SON he thought he’d fathered in 2010 wasn’t his and describes it as tragic. Really touching…
Idris is usually extremely private but he shared with GQ magazine about a hugely painful part of his life. He spoke about the awful moment when he discovered that he wasn’t the biological father of the child he knew as his son.
“The celebration of having a son, from a man’s perspective, it’s massive,” said Idris Elba about 2010 news reports that he was gushing about a beautiful baby boy, his son, with his ex-girlfriend, Desiree Newberry, in Florida. According to news reports, Idris met “Dezi” when she was a stripper at Atlanta’s infamous Magic City strip club. When she became pregnant, Idris moved his then girlfriend into his house in Miami so he could take better care of her.
A friend of his girlfriend, told him something wasn’t right… “It wasn’t immediately obvious. Well, it was, because he didn’t look like me. But it wasn’t immediately obvious what had gone down.”
Idris did a paternity test and his worst fears were confirmed. “To be given that and then have it taken away so harshly,” he says, “was like taking a full-on punch in the face: POW.”
He described the experience as “extremely freeing”. “You know, the truth is — like, even admitting it, I’ll probably get laughed at for the rest of my life. But it is just tragic, and it happened. But I wasn’t knocked out. I stood right … back up, and I ain’t aiming to take another punch in the face ever again. Do you understand what I’m saying? It happened to me. I moved on.”
Shortly after his secret bad news, Essence magazine asked Idris about how his first child, his daughter with his ex-wife felt about her new status as a big sister. All Idris had to say was, “I only have a daughter.”
“I’ve not been an angel in my life, either — do you know what I’m saying? So to a certain extent, what goes around comes around. But for me in the future, I’m about being comfortable. That’s it. Now that I’ve achieved some of the things that I’ve wanted to achieve, I’m not going to be a slave to it all of a sudden. I respect the artist that lives that way. The people that just go, ‘You’re going to hate me for what I just did, or you’re not going to understand why I made that film or that record or whatever, but what you are watching is someone that’s living their life.’ You know: I’m not watching you; you’re watching me.”
This story has a happy ending… for Idris! He’s together with a lovely new lady (his make-up artist girlfriend Naiyana Garth) and they have a lovely baby son called Winston.
While Idris’ unfaithful ex-girlfriend, Desiree Newberry, has gone back to stripping for a living. I feel sorry for her too, somehow. What think you?
SOURCE: GQ magazine
Kara
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