As you may or may not know, ex-wife of comedian Steve Harvey, Mary Harvey has decided to speak out via YouTube about her baby daddy’s foul ways. I couldn’t help but be reminded of the whole Mashonda-Swizz Beatz-Alicia Keys debacle, and even Fantasia’s unfortunate situation. It got me to thinking, when the man is already gone or clearly on his way out of the door of a relationship, what’s the purpose of all the public bashing? Are these women simply bitter or genuinely emotionally battered from the experience? Or both? Who says you can’t cut down your ex if he was a dog to you, and make a few dollars in the process?
At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be any financial gain from Mary Harvey exposing the former couples’ dirty laundry, which is pretty fuckin’ filthy by the way. She exposes how Harvey’s current wife Marjorie used to call their personal home number asking for him under the guise of seeking employment. Apparently, she was not the only mistress, as Mary shared letters from another side piece detailing her decision to move to LA to be closer to Harvey, having an abortion for him, and explicitly describing the freak nasty activities I just can’t imagine a guy with a closet full of Easter suits pursuing, but I guess it’s always the ones you don’t expect.
Mary claims she was simply disgusted with his Essence Magazine cover, where he is heralded as some kind of relationship guru when he’s in fact a cheater who left her flat broke when they split. It’s hard to know the motivations behind one’s actions in her circumstance, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this parlayed itself into some extra cash for her. After all, Mashonda is now set to appear on VH1’s new Rapper’s Wives show, and I don’t think she was on anyone’s radar until she repeatedly tweet-bashed Alicia Keys. As for Fantasia’s situation, she claimed she didn’t know anything, which upon watching her VH1 show, I actually believe now. The wife suing for “Alienation of Affection,” however is clearly on some come-up shit, but I can’t simply say she’s jealous and bitter, though that may play a part in the equation.
Divorce and all the juicy details that lead up to it are extremely difficult for a former wife to deal with, especially in the public eye. I do feel that Mary Harvey has been through some rough shit with this man, and I don’t blame her for getting it off her chest, and possibly collecting a check for it, especially if it’s true that Steve Harvey’s 10 jobs having ass didn’t leave her with so much as enough to pay the water bill after she rode with him for 16 years. I do know however that getting what you are owed is one thing, and exploiting that for the rest of your life is another. As long as these chicks don’t use this as a sympathy crutch down the line, I say girl get your bitter ass some dough and then start your own money train. No one’s given Mary the side eye yet, and let’s hope it stays that way.
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