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Tyrese‘s estranged wife filed for divorce more than 3 months before he announced their split, and she claims he changed the locks at their home … something Tyrese denies.
Samantha Lee Gibson filed divorce docs back in September, and in the petition she alleges Tyrese had, just a few weeks earlier, cut her off financially, and locked her and their 2-year-old daughter, Soraya, out of the family’s Georgia home.
Tyrese is calling BS, though … in docs he filed, he denies leaving them out in the cold. On the other hand, he admits having major issues with Samantha’s demand for $20,000 per month in child support. He calls that number “unreasonably high.”
As for what led up to their split — Tyrese says when he flew home from a movie set in late August, Samantha confronted him … kicking off a tense, 3-hour conversation where she threatened to call cops.
Tyrese says he left the house in an Uber because he wanted no part of a police interaction due to “multiple public incidents involving police brutality and racially motivated killings of unarmed African American people.”
You’ll recall, when Tyrese announced their divorce last week he made a broader statement about Black families being under attack, and said his divorce was an example of a vicious cycle in the community.