Nia Long’s youngest son is having a “really difficult time” after his dad, Ime Udoka, disgraced their family by having an affair.
The scandal caused Nia and Ime to split after 13 years together.
My only focus right now is my youngest son ’cause he’s having a really hard time,” the actress, 52, told the Cut of 11-year-old Kez. “I’m sure I have some stuffs that I’m suppressing, but I have to do that to take care of him first. That’s the giving. It’s natural.”
Udoka, 45, was fired as head coach of the Boston Celtics prior this month after it was opened that he had been secretly romantically involved with the team’s service manager, Kathleen Nimmo Lynch.
I’m sure I’ll have to circle back with myself several times to reconcile things,” Long added in the new interview, “but the one stuff I’m attempting not to harbor is anger.”
The Celtics announced Udoka’s suspension for “violations of team policies” last September, but the “Big Momma’s House” star still resents that the organization publicly opened detail about her and her now-former-fiancé’s personal life.
“The Celtics made a choice to make my family business public, and I don’t understand why,” she said. “It could’ve all been handled internally. I do understand why, but I can’t talk about it. Maybe one day I will.”