NBA star, Dwight Howard opened up about fatherhood with Esquire Magazine for their November issue. For those of you who don't know Royce Reed former cheerleader and basketball wives star is Dwight's baby mother and these two have been having an ongoing custody battle over their son. Check out a preview of his interview below!
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I know it’s a subject you haven’t wanted to talk about publicly, but is fatherhood a part of your life?
It’s very important. Hopefully me and my son’s mom will come to a better agreement for my son. When I do see him, we have the best time in the world. He acts just like me. He tries to run like me. He looks back and smiles like me. Fatherhood is great and it will get better. He’s young. He’s gonna need his father in his life. People say you don’t need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father’s Day and why it’s not celebrated like Mother’s Day.
I’ve been around the NBA enough as a writer to see the women who would give anything just to get impregnated. And I’ve seen the men who didn’t care how many kids they had in how many different places, just as long as they had someone to f*ck on the road. Pardon my French.
I understand. With some of my teammates, they try so hard to be around their kid, and then the mother of their child makes it so hard. A lot of guys just say, “I’m not gonna deal with it.”
It’s always the kids who pay the price.
I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn’t have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren’t around. I was lucky to have mine around.
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