‘Was Not Getting Wife of the Year Awards’
“Whoever has the most gets to do whatever the hell they want, is what I thought.”
Gabrielle Union and Dax Shepard got real about past infidelities on the latest “Armchair Expert,” with Shepard declaring them “identical” in some of their past behaviors … and justifications.
Shepard admitted that he has a complicated relationship with his past behaviors because on the one hand, he has tremendous guilt and feels shame for cheating. At the same time, he admitted he was also glad he did it in some cases.
“Life’s short and it’s one trip here,” he shared. “It’s complicated for me. I’m glad I took some of the opportunities that came my way.”
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Union shared a similar sentiment, admitting a little later in their relationship that she wished she had more guilt for her own infidelity, but instead thought of it as “just such a stupid relationship that should never have gotten out of the dating phase.”
“I definitely was not getting Wife of the Year Awards,” Union said of her first marriage. “I had some focus issues, you know.” She was married to NFL running back Chris Howard from 2001 to 2006.
“In our first marriage, neither one of us felt like the marriage should get in the way of our dating,” Union explained. For her at the time, it felt like a combination of trying to keep up with her husband’s behavior, and battling her own sense of entitlement.
“I was like, Oh, that’s what you’re doing?” Union shared. In response, she’d hit back with, “You’re gonna feel this one.”
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But it was more than just trying to hit him with the same behaviors he was displaying. Union admitted that she also felt “entitled” to cheat because she was paying the bills and working hard in life.
“I felt that that’s what comes, the spoils of riches,” she said. “Like my dad before me, whoever has the most gets to do whatever the hell they want, is what I thought.”
Shepard said that his relationship was a little different, describing it as a “nine year open relationship.” He felt that he was always honest with the other women he would sleep with, but that in a way he was using that as a tool sometimes to sidestep ethics.
In some cases, the women understood the score and were down, but in other situations, he said he could tell that the woman wasn’t really okay with everything. “My ethics know she’s going along because it’s all she can have but it’s probably really not that cool for me to do this,” he said.
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