Kelis Details ‘Really Dark’ Marriage to Nas, Claims He was Physically Abusive [Video]

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*Kelis claims she endured a lot of physical and emotional abuse during her 5-year marriage to Nas.

The “Milkshake” singer opened up for the very first time to The Hollywood Unlocked, detailing the relationship she and the rapper shared, which was one she now alleges was violent and extremely toxic. 

“I was really naive, I was madly in love and so I took a lot that I shouldn’t have taken, and generally just it’s not in my character at all, so it was just all awkward,” she shared.

But their relationship quickly took a turn for the worst.

“We had really intense highs and really intense lows,” Kelis says. “It was never normal. An intense high would be when money was rolling in. We were young. But I was 22 when I met him. I was a baby. We were drinking too much, smoking too much. We were too much. We were spending too much. We were balling too much. We were living too hard. So when that comes down, it goes really low. There’s no balance, there’s no normalcy.”

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Before things could get better, she says they just got worse and that’s when she made a decision to leave.

“It was really dark. A lot of drinking. A lot of mental and physical abuse and it got to the point where if I wasn’t pregnant, I might have stayed with him. I really did love him. We were married—we weren’t dating, we were married, this was my person.”

Kelis admits that they were both responsible for some of the violence that took place in their marriage. When asked specifically if there were intense violent moments, Kelis replied, “Did he hit me?…..Mmm hmmm. Did I hit him back?…..Mmm hmmm.”

Kelis and Nas tied the knot in 2005 but in April 2009, the Harlem native filed for divorce and their only child, Knight, 8, was born in July of the same year. 

Kelis said the catalyst for her deciding to leave their marriage was seeing a photo of Rihanna’s beaten face after her infamous domestic dispute with ex, Chris Brown. 

“Something reminded me of Rihanna. I remember so clearly when the pictures came out when the Rihanna and Chris Brown pictures came out I thought about coming out because I also had bruises all over my body…I wasn’t ready to walk, I just wasn’t,” Kelis said. “Honestly, I’m not weak [but I didn’t say anything] because I’m really private. I don’t like people in my business. But seeing her the way she looked and then looking at myself… I was embarrassed. I was appalled, I was embarrassed. I didn’t say anything because I wanted this to work and I was delusional and I thought that I could love past this.”

Kelis admits that despite their volatile history together, she has reflected on what could have been.

“This wasn’t supposed to happen to us, the catastrophic disaster that we became,” she says. “We were supposed to be good. We were so gifted–and rebellious and sexy. We should’ve made it. It sucks that we didn’t but it couldn’t work because you’ve got all these factors and all these things.”

Kelis remarried real estate agent Mike Mora in December 2014 and in November the following year, welcomed their son, Sheperd.

Read more of Kelis’ interview, here. 

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