[EXCLUSIVE] Love & Hip Hop’s Erica Jean Says ‘Fix My Life’ Made Co-Parenting With Saigon EXTREMELY Worse: He Hasn’t Seen His Son In Months!

abuse and the things I was enduring in our relationship. So, I was kind of hoping that she would kind of maybe help me out in that way where she can kind of bring it to light–the things that he was doing because at the time we were trying to work on our relationship but then later on  I was just trying to co-parent with him without his verbal attacks and all the things I was going through. So, I don’t think the show was effective in that way. I think that it was a very one-sided show and I think that Saigon manipulated Iyanla for whatever reason to kind of put it on me but at the end of the day, I guess it is what it is.

theJasmineBRAND: Have you spoke to Iyanla since it aired? Has she reached out to you?

Erica Jean: I have and she definitely told me the reasons why she kind of did what she did. At the end of the day, that still is a show too and they have to have ratings and I think that producers never seen the show. Maybe they thought that I was the problem and they wanted to somewhat make an example out of me but it backfired because I don’t think I was ever was the problem in the relationship, if anything I was always trying to make the relationship work. So, Iyanla reached out to me kind of just telling me that she was just trying to help me be a better woman and be a better mother and I get that but at the same time the reason I went on the show was to get help for co parenting with the father of my child and that I didn’t get help in and it really just made the situation extremely worse. Iyanla she’s definitely hard and what she says aren’t completely true but I think it was one-sided and I felt like  it was kind of an attack instead of helping me and that’s just how I got it.

theJasmineBRAND: At the end of the show, it said that you continue to put up provocative Instagram photos. Also [they] said that co-parenting hasn’t improved. Can you clarify?

Erica Jean: The funny thing about the pictures is that Saigon has a problem with the pictures. I think it’s funny because we did a photoshoot for ‘Straight Stuntin’ magazine with me on the cover showing my ass and him standing right there and he has no problem with it but when I post pictures by myself then he has a problem with it. What made me upset about that is that he brought that up with Iyanla, she doesn’t have my instagram so I know that Saigon was bringing these things to her and that’s why in turn she told me to take them down and she knew about the pictures. The pictures that I think I put up are no worse than what a lot of people do in certain magazines and what me and Saigon have done is certain magazines. I just think that on Saigon’s part it was more of a control thing and on Iyanla’s part it was more to make me more aware of being a better and acceptable mother, so I can see what she did in that but with Saigon it’s really just about control with him. At the end of the day, I did take down some pictures, I didn’t take down all the pictures because some of them that I did take were from professional photographers from different magazines and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.

theJasmineBRAND: What do you think the real issue is between you and Saigon?

Erica Jean: As far as me and Saigon in our relationship, I think that it made it worse, us going on the show. After the show I took him to court so I think he was very upset about that. Saigon is always welcome to see his child, he just doesn’t want to. He’s not involved. He hasn’t seen our son since the show and that was in January and his excuse to not see his son is because I’m just some horrible person that he doesn’t want to be around …[inaudible] …It’s not me, it’s him.

theJasmineBRAND: Will you two return to the show [Love & Hip Hop NY]?

Erica Jean: We’re not planning to return to the show, no. I wasn’t even suppose to be on the show, Saigon was on the show with another babymama and it didn’t work out. So they kind of just brought me in there in the middle of taping like fresh from me just being a career woman and being a mother so it was never my desire to be on a reality show, that was all his desire for his career.  So me not returning, I already knew that I didn’t want to return as far as him returning, I don’t know.

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