Raven-Symoné reflected on the end of a past, longtime relationship.
“We were together for a really long time, and he got another girl pregnant,” Symoné, 39, said on the Wednesday, August 6, broadcast of SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live. “The best part of it was he asked me to be the godmother of the kid.”
While Symoné (full name Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman) did not name her ex on the radio appearance or whether she accepted his offer, she stressed that they are in a good place.
“We’re still in communication now,” Symoné, who has been married to Miranda Pearman-Maday since 2020, said. “He’s been through a lot, so there’s nothing but love and respect for all that he’s gone through, and his family. He still talks about it all the time, [that] dumbass.”
The former That’s So Raven star publicly came out as queer in 2013 before she started dating Pearman-Maday, now 38, long after her relationship with her unidentified ex-boyfriend came to an end following his infidelity.
“I came into the relationship … very secure. I also don’t really get very jealous of my partners,” Symoné said on a March episode of her and Pearman-Maday’s “Tea Time” podcast. “When I was dating men, I’d be like, ‘You get three cheats, and then after the third one, we’re done.’”
Symoné further explained that she and Pearman-Maday spoke about trust early in their relationship.
“I think it’s really important, though. I told her early, I was, like, ‘I don’t get jealous if you think somebody’s handsome or pretty. It doesn’t bother me,’” Symoné recalled. “When things start to bother me is when I feel your emotional heart start moving away.”
Symoné and Pearman-Maday have never shied away from discussing real issues on their podcast.
“You do feel comfortable. You’re like, ‘Oh, I’m at home and there’s nobody else here and now I’m gonna say something,’” Pearman-Maday exclusively told Luxury Handbag Shopping in July 2023. “I do feel like there is an element of couple’s therapy just because it’s forcing us to have, like, sit-down communication, but we also have real couple’s therapy. Yeah, so that’s really when we got to town on that stuff.”
She added that they try to create a “safe space” both when they’re recording episodes or enjoying their life away from the cameras.
“It’s definitely hard to make that time,” Symoné told Us of balancing private and professional moments. “We are learning how to do that. Date night right now consists of watching all of the Mission Impossible series one night at a time, but we’re only on No. 1. … I think our core knows why we’re doing this and that we have the rest of our lives to vacay and enjoy date night once we get this grinding done.”
