*A resurfaced clip of Nia Long admitting to dating older men while she was in high school is making the rounds on social media.
“I wasn’t a girl that ever went to prom,” said Long in an interview that took place six years ago, Hot New Hip Hop reports.
“Like, my boyfriend was 30 when I was in high school! I know, my mother was crazy. I mean that in a good way, like she was an artist,” Long told the audience. “She was like, ‘Well if that’s who you love, baby!’ And he was so good to me and kind.”
Long, 52, claims this older man first asked for her mother’s permission to date her underage daughter.
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“He said, ‘I love your daughter and I want to date your daughter,’ and he asked permission,” Long recalled. When the actress noticed a woman in the audience visibly not impressed with this disturbing tale, Long reacted.
“Look at you, you’re like ‘That ain’t happening with my baby,’” she said to the woman while pointing at her. “But you know what he taught me?” Long asked the crowd. “‘Cuz he owned a hair salon. He taught me how to do my own hair and makeup,” she shared.
Hear more from Long about this topic via the Instagram clip above.
The “You People” actress made headlines late last year when her ex-fiance, Ime Udoka, was suspended as the Celtics head coach for the 2022-2023 year over his intimate relationship with a female staffer. Long and the young son their share together had moved to the east coast to support Ime. But once news broke that he was cheating on her with a married Morman mother of three, Long packed up and she and the kid moved back to Los Angeles.
She addressed this embarrassingly tough time in a recent interview with Role Recall for Yahoo! Entertainment.
“I’ve had some pretty devastating moments in my life over the last couple of months. And I’ve had just to say, ‘It’s all right. You’ll pick yourself back up and — oh my god. I’m about to cry,” she said. “‘You’ll pick yourself back up and keep moving.’”
Udoka and Long began dating in 2010 after meeting through mutual friends. In 2015, the two became engaged. Long was reportedly blindsided by Ime’s affair with the Celtics employee.
“I think the most heartbreaking thing about all of this was seeing my son’s face when the Boston Celtics organization decided to make a very private situation public,” Long previously said in a statement amid the headline-making scandal with her ex.
“No one from the Celtics organization has even called to see if I’m OK, to see if my children are OK. It’s very disappointing,” she added.
Long and Ime are no longer together, but they’re committed to co-parenting their son.
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