{"id":16904,"date":"2012-09-20T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T18:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16904"},"modified":"2012-09-20T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T18:51:39","slug":"usher-opens-up-to-oprah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16904","title":{"rendered":"Usher Opens Up To Oprah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of holding his tongue,<strong> Usher<\/strong> let it all hang out during his interview with <strong>Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> Sunday (Sept. 17).<\/p>\n<p>The music superstar answered many of the questions that have been swirling in the rumormill since his split from ex-wife, <strong>Tameka Raymond<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old wed <strong>Tameka<\/strong> in 2008, despite opposition from fans and his mother, but according to <strong>Usher<\/strong>, he was in love and felt that tying the knot was the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was taking responsibility because she was pregnant, but also too I don&#8217;t know if I had the best point of reference,\u201d he said. \u201cMy father wasn&#8217;t there [growing up] I didn&#8217;t want to be like him in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also admitted to infidelity, but not while they were physically still together.\u201cTowards the end of our marriage, I found myself lost and I just wanted out,\u201d he explained. \u201cI was faithful at heart, but not faithful all the way. Even having a conversation with another woman about matters of your relationship is not being faithful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On rumors that he slept with <strong>Tameka&#8217;s<\/strong> bridesmaid, he stalled briefly before admitting to having\u00a0 \u201cexchanges\u201d with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of holding his tongue, Usher let it all hang out during his interview with Oprah Winfrey Sunday (Sept. 17). The music superstar answered many of the questions that have been swirling in the rumormill since his split from ex-wife, Tameka Raymond. The 33-year-old wed Tameka in 2008, despite opposition from fans and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}