Gabrielle Union felt it was her right to be unfaithful in her first marriage.
“I just felt entitled to it as well. I was paying all the bills, I was working my ass off and I felt like that’s what comes [with it] – the spoils of riches,” she recalled. “Like my dad before me, whoever has the most gets to do whatever the hell they want, is what I thought.”The two were married in 2001, but separated four years later. She revealed in her 2017 memoirthat she had been uncertain even at the altar, hinting the dissolution was due to unfaithfulness.
“Neither one of us felt like our marriage should get in the way of our dating,” she joked, suggesting Howard had been cheating as well. “Part of it was keeping up with his activities. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s what you’re doing? Oh, you’re gonna feel this one.’” “It was such a stupid relationship that should have never gotten out of the dating phase,” she explained. “We were gifted therapy and in our first session, the therapist, that’s literally what she said. ‘I don’t know how you guys made it out of the dating phase.’ We should ‘probably look for a way to amicably dissolve because you have not one thing in common. No morals, no values, no scruples.