NeYo Confirms He & Wife Crystal Smith Are Divorcing: She’s Got Demons Just Like Everyone Else, Just Like Me – Our Demons Don’t Mesh

NeYo, Crystal Smith

NeYo Confirms He & Wife Crystal Smith Are Divorcing: She’s Got Demons Just Like Everyone Else, Just Like Me – Our Demons Don’t Mesh

NeYo (real name Shaffer Chimere Smith) is opening up about the looming divorce between him and his estranged wife, Crystal Smith.

theJasmineBRAND broke the story earlier this month that Crystal Smith was allegedly preparing to divorce the 40-year-old singer.

Over the weekend, NeYo confirmed their split stating:

“It’s slowly but surely becoming public knowledge that myself and my wife have decided to go ahead and get a divorce. It’s not a sad thing, it’s more of a us realizing long story short, I’m never gonna talk bad about her.”

He continued,

“I’m not that person. There’s nothing bad to say about her. She’s a fantastic woman. She’s the mother of my children and she’s always gonna be that….Long story short, she’s got demons just like everyone else, just like me and we realize our demons don’t mesh  — and until the both of get ahold of our personal demons, it’s gonna be just difficult for us to stay married. That’s the end of that chapter, not the end of that book.”

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He concluded:

“Like I said, that’s the mother of my kids and I love her to death. We’re gonna be family forever.”

Crystal Smith also told Baller Alert:

“the accuracy is that he’s an amazing father and our kids are blessed to have a father like him. I wouldn’t take that back for anything in this world. Everything else is God’s will.”

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