Report: Usher delays signing divorce papers
Radar Online and the New York Daily News are reporting that Atlanta pop star Usher is mysteriously delaying signing his divorce papers from wife and Atlanta celeb stylist Tameka Foster Raymond.
The singer filed for divorce this summer in Fulton County Superior Court.
Has the singer had a change of heart or is he stunting to promote his new autobiographical single, “Papers” released Tuesday? Sample lyrics from the song:
“I can’t deny how much I loved you / I done gave up everything I had too / As hard as it is I’m afraid I’ve gotta say, I’m ready to sign them papers.”
Or not, as it turns out.
Buzz will check in with the Raymonds’ reps today to see if they can provide details on the report.
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UrSay
October 7th, 2009
10:02 am
Don’t sign the papers, work it out.
Debdoes
October 7th, 2009
10:05 am
Sign the papers, dude. You are too good for her…ask your mom!
ally
October 7th, 2009
10:07 am
Sign the papers – she looks like a man!!
bosseswife
October 7th, 2009
10:07 am
I agree with Ursay – WORK IT OUT! The Grass is not greener than your wife and children. Plus, I heart Tameka.
chrissy
October 7th, 2009
10:09 am
keep your personal affairs personal (remember the childern) good luck!
C.A.A
October 7th, 2009
10:12 am
Just remember, it’s cheaper to keep her!!!
Trisha
October 7th, 2009
10:15 am
Usher, work it out!! Be a better man for Tameka and a better father to those boys than your dad was. You deserve them and they you. Life is short. I totally adore you! God Bless you, Tameka and the boys.
Lady
October 7th, 2009
10:18 am
Usher, please, hurry up and sign the papers. Any woman that is willing to risk her life for a tummy tuck, just months after giving birth, does not deserve to be with anyone. Isn’t this the same woman that left her first family (husband & children) to be with Usher? It’s obvious that Tameka has her priorities out of order. Usher should get counseling, mend his broken relationships with his mother, family, and friends…and move on.
Atlantan
October 7th, 2009
10:19 am
Just more mess out of Atlanta. The rest of the country thinks this is a joke. Just like those horrible “housewives”.
she must have some fire coochie!
October 7th, 2009
10:23 am
Get rid of her and get you some prime! Bro!
bosseswife
October 7th, 2009
10:26 am
Y’all bashing this woman and you don’t even know her, she must be prime if he chose her. As far as “mess coming out of Atlanta” …what you are witnessing my friend is a shift in entertainment mecca’s embrace it or move.
What the Hell
October 7th, 2009
10:29 am
Usher is very immature!! I am so surprised at his behavior. Why would you write a song with lyrics like that? I hope his CD flops! No matter if you were a fan of Tameka or not. He could of handled this like a mature adult. But see that’s the problem. He is a boy trying to become a man.
bosseswife
October 7th, 2009
10:30 am
Get rid of her and get you some prime! Bro!
What is prime? Long hair and Light skin, Halle Berry…..you got it twisted. She is not regular Hollywood, but I bet she loves her man!
Happily Working
October 7th, 2009
10:39 am
Sign the PAPERS! We didn’t want you with her anyways!!!!!!
Don
October 7th, 2009
10:49 am
Usher, forget about everyone elses opinion. Do you! Whatever that is. At the end of the day that’s all that matters.
Teema
October 7th, 2009
10:58 am
Sign the papers , try to correct your mistake , you took on another mans problems , she was not fully divorced when you met her sooo. It just said a lot about you as a man a man (and not in a noble way)who would rather give up a beautiful , single mom like chili and not wife her , yet marry a half divorced woman with 3-4 kids already from another man she’s almost 40, who works for you dude and not herself and then you go and have 2 more babies with her (with the quickness to to tie yourself to this trainwreck for life ). I used to love usher before this happened i went to all his concerts paid for the good seats had all his CD’s (the original to make sure he gets my money )But not any more if you want to pay for that you go ahead . I like him but he won’t get my paper . Who said your personal life does not take away from your professional? It does in some way . This is another case of Super save a hoe symdrome and Ushers Got it Bad
kwonjez Jazdrak
October 7th, 2009
11:02 am
Sign the papers,take care of your kids and move on.You’re TOO young to be with a woman with alot of children.
Jessica
October 7th, 2009
11:03 am
Do what’s best for your CHILDREN! They come first. If this is a ploy to sell more CD’s, then that’s about as immature as it gets. Also, your sons will grow up to LOVE their mother and detest the way you “slammed” her in your song. Be better than your own “biologicial” and put those beautiful boys first!!!!
UsherFan!
October 7th, 2009
11:03 am
Okay….so PRIME doesn’t mean light skinned, skinny, with long hair…we know Usher normally goes out for chocolate sisters…look at Chilly! But he deserves to be happy…whatever that may be and whoever that may be with!!! No, I never really cared for Tameka, but if he was happy, what did it matter….BUT if you looked at him, after he got with her, his music wasn’t the same, his personality and demeanor was different…all of which matter in this business….
….and artist express themselves through their music…so as far as the song being immature…i have to differ with ya. I actually like it!
oh well…on with MY life!
Ms. KP
October 7th, 2009
11:05 am
How in the heck can someone equate light skinned long hair to prime? That sounds like a piece of meat. Have you reduced yourself to a piece of meat? Then to give yourself the title bosseswife. Are you that shallow, insecure and co-dependent that you have to assure yourself you are the bosses wife? Physical features do not define who you are. Yes, it is what attracts people to you but it does not define who you are. You sound just as ignorant as those who feel if you are dark skinned you have to procreat with someone lighter or even caucasion because the assumption is your children will stand a better chance. NEWSFLASH, interacial kids are just as vunerable to prejudice. The fact that you made that comment is twisted. Get some independence about yourself. Sorry for the tantrum as this was about Usher signing divorce papers but that comment rubbed me the wrong way. And before you ask yes, I am not light skinned and by choice have short hair but I will stand against Halle Berry in a Beauty Contest any day.
Jessica
October 7th, 2009
11:07 am
@kwonjez, you’re telling Usher he’s too young to be with a woman with a lot of children. How dare you! Usher helped to create 2 of those young, precious lives. He obviously wasn’t too young to create life. What the hell make you think he’s too young to stay with the woman who he created life with. He knew Tameka’s age before he married her. That’s the problem with SOME men. They think about themselves FIRST. If they think about their children first, so many children wouldn’t be living in single parent homes as Usher’s children now are. He needs to man up, break the curse of men leaving mothers to raise their children, and do what’s right for those boys!! In the end, the singing, acting, videos, etc. will not matter. When he has to face God, he will be held responsible for how he raised his children, and not for how many CD’s he sold or how many chicks he “traded places” with. CHILDREN COME FIRST!!
Jessica
October 7th, 2009
11:13 am
@usherfan, you said Usher deserves to be happy. Honey, when you bring children into the world, you do what’s best for the children. Usher was not a teenager when he married Tameka. He needs to stand by his promise to love and honor her until death do them part. We all deserve to be happy and if you want to be happy, make good decisions up front. The grass is not always greener on the other side. The grass is green whereever you water it! He needs to do what makes God happy and in turn he will be happy!!!!! Put the children first!! Enough of the stinking thinking.
Terri
October 7th, 2009
11:13 am
Keep your biz personal and stop making boyish mistakes, its getting a little tired that you use your relationships to kick off your albums. Is this the only way you can be inspired as an artist is to keep Fudging up??
Usher fan
October 7th, 2009
11:17 am
Divorce her. You know you shouldn’t have married her in the first place. Your mom tried to tell you, don’t delay let her go!!!!!!!
UsherFan!
October 7th, 2009
11:24 am
This will be my last comment…but…I am a product on a single parent home…raised by my mother but def had and still have a relationship with my father. There was obviously a reason my parents split, sometimes things just DONT work out they way we expect them to. I am a FIRM believer in the vows we take when we become married and believe that marriage should not be entenred into with a great deal of thought. However, sometimes staying in an unhealthy relationship can be just as harmful for the children as leaving. NONE of us, unless we know them personally knows what went on behind their doors and at the end of the day bothe Usher and Tameka are going to do what they want to..regardless of what we have to say….I think User will be a great father to his kids..wether he is in the home or not….
…but…blog on bloggers…blog on!
PEACE!
Jodi
October 7th, 2009
11:29 am
Ush…just do whatever makes you the most “papers”.
Pharla
October 7th, 2009
11:35 am
Work it out and pray that everything works in the both of your favor. If domestic violence or infidelity is not a key factor for divorce, than continue to be the great father and husband your mother raised you to be Usher. You are still my #1 RB artist.
Black Girl
October 7th, 2009
11:38 am
@bosseswife Halle Berry is more than light skinned, she’s half white! Ugh! I get so sick of such stereotypes. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! If that’s your choice for beauty fine, but Usher obviously thinks differently. I applaud him for his choice of women. He likes them chocolate. Good for him!
Usher, please put your family first. You have kids and they will one day read whatever you put out in the universe. Respect their mom always.
@Jessica, love your words…
Nicky
October 7th, 2009
11:45 am
I agree with UsherFan! We don’t know what goes on behind their closed doors. I also think that marriage should not be entered into lightly. BUT if they are both unhappy and stay together for the children, the children will sense that and feel it is their fault. Sometimes it’s best to end it and focus on being good parents.
Nicky
October 7th, 2009
11:47 am
And for everyone here talking about Usher’s choice of “chocolate” women, I would hope that he’s choosing them on the content of their character and not the color of their skin…
MCM
October 7th, 2009
11:49 am
Wait, didn’t they just get married??
THE WHOLE IDEA
October 7th, 2009
12:04 pm
It’s never a good idea to go back . . . you left for a reason and unless someone makes MAJOR CHANGES, the issues will rear it’s ugly heads as soon as the makeup sex is over . .
Lady, you got that right!! PREACH . . .
The vows say: WHAT GOD HAS PUT TOGETHER LET NO MAN PUT ASUNDER . .
However, GOD hasn’t put a lot of folk together and that’s why the fall apart . . . it’s usually lust and passion fades;
PREACH LADY!! What good is it for a man to gain the world and lose his soul. We always dogg the men out, but they are cheating with SOMEBODY! and women, we will, step on our sista’s toes to get at her man. . . .
Black women, we need work. We are co-creators with God in life and our insecurities, and the fact that we are relying on the info from others wounded more than us . . . and yes, I’m a woman, and a real one at that!! We haven’t done so well with the singl emother thing, and as long as we keep enabling our men, the love we seek and need will continue to elude us . . .
Women, step it up; call men dogs if you wanna, but they are stepping out with SOMEBODY. It ain’t all their fault . . .
Music fan
October 7th, 2009
12:05 pm
Usher didn’t write the song-Sean Garrett wrote the song. Usher only sang it-and sang it from the heart because that’s his life at this point! People keep saying do what’s best for the kids, right? Well, in this case what’s best for the kids is for them to get a divorce. No kid deserves to be in a household where two adults are on opposites sides of the house, not speaking, and constantly in arguments. And he is a damn good father to those kids. He even stepped up to the plate when his stepchildren’s father wouldn’t.
ant banks
October 7th, 2009
12:05 pm
Usha is pimpin’ all of y’all!!! this is a publicity ploy for his new album, so he won’t sign it until it becomes a number one hit. remember when kanye and 50 had a “showdown” on the release of their album? 50 said that he would quit rappin’ if kanye beat his records sales (albums were released on the same day) well kanye beat the 1st week sales and 50 still rappin’.
get y’all money ready. go buy the cd for 14.99 and help make tamika, the kids, and ursha more richer than they already are…lol @ y’all
ps…i will get a boot leg copy so i won’t contribute to their richness….tehehehehe
THE WHOLE IDEA
October 7th, 2009
12:07 pm
WTF??! I’d rather be single and want to be married than married and wanting to be single. Why should Tameka’s relationship work? She broke up her first marriage,and got in the middle of Chili and Usher’s relationship. Why should her’s last??
Marcus Graham
October 7th, 2009
12:10 pm
ummmm who cares? Are the trolls on tv today?
gwen
October 7th, 2009
12:15 pm
Tameka you live by the sword you die by it!
gwen pitts
October 7th, 2009
12:16 pm
Tameka you live by the sword you die by it.
Build a bridge and get over it
October 7th, 2009
12:20 pm
Ms. Teema…tell us how you REALLY feel!!!
Em
October 7th, 2009
12:25 pm
I don’t know what to say, Life is short and there’s nothing promise to us. Do what ever make you both happy!
BigMike Said.....
October 7th, 2009
12:26 pm
The Whole Idea, You are the truth and nothing but the truth, some sista had to say it, and you just delivered a knockout punch. Ya’ll “fake sista’s” who always play the victim”, listen to T.W.I. and learn something, instead of everytime you see a brotha with money running to fools gold. In the end you know your wrongs, but between these fake ministers who tell you you’re the victim, and T.V’s, books and anything that allows you to not face the reality of personal responsibility you hide your evil ways. Black /White sista’s out there if you’re real keep it real, and don’t become a victim by being the victimizer. If you think that having a baby is gonna keep a man there, you’ve got your thoughts wrong. Good luck to all the true sista’s, and for you that don’t take this real, continue you to be a victim, and evenually a burden to society and a pissed off mom who spews hatred about the kids father at the kids.
Build a bridge and get over it
October 7th, 2009
12:28 pm
@ THE WHOLE IDEA …I bow to you. I just had this discussion on fb with some friends and women (not just black women) thinks it’s a full contact sport of trying to take someone’s man. I say you can’t take the willing. However, you are correct…stepping on toes to get someone’s man is soooooo NOT the move.
Lisa From Jacksonville
October 7th, 2009
12:29 pm
Usher, I have a half sister name Alesia who messed it up with a good brother from Ga just like you. He was being used and the life of their relationship got drained right out by her. I saw the same happen with your relationship with Tameka. Go with what your first instincts were, sign the papers. Don’t create a mistake to look back.
BigMike Said.....
October 7th, 2009
12:30 pm
Oh and before somebody say’s I’m the angry broke Black Brotha, don’t even try it. Paid often, live good, and know I didn’t become a victim, because I am to this day a Trojan man.
houswife
October 7th, 2009
12:40 pm
Sign the papers… please. I hate you two together. There are plenty of other women who won’t abandon their previous families to start a new family with you that are of good character.
THE WHOLE IDEA
October 7th, 2009
12:40 pm
@BigMikeSaid. . . congrats . . . my son is 20 and I told him to be a trojan man, too. that’s the only way a man can guarantee that they won’t get pregnant.
I’m so tired of women being victims, I can spit . . . they know EXACTLY what they are doing . . . always trying to dogg a man out, but then the man gets one up on them, then they get mad and go after their pockets . . .
We want the love, but sabotage ourselves on the regular . . .and again, until we stop enabling these men, until we CHOOSE better fathers for our children, until we embrace our sistas and take the knives out of their backs, the love we so desperately need will continue to elude us . . .
real folk hit me up . . . if you just wanna talk . . . black single motherhood has failed our children and our men . . . and now we are by ourselves, looking for who????
who is this man? Was he your father? Uncle? Brother?
Usher do you, but go forward, don’t look back. If you and Tameka will be in a relationship, it has to be a new thing . . .
<> It may be publicity. . . we see what Confessions did? That was all about Tameka and Chili . . . stop playin . . . and Tameka, like Lauryn says: YOU MIGHT GET SOME BUT YOU JUST LOST ONE!!
DON’T GO BACK TO EGYPT!!
Tiffani
October 7th, 2009
12:53 pm
Just sign the stupid papers already! It’s about time this farse of a marriage came to an end! I don’t need to turn on my radio and hear a song about how he’s ready to sign some papers, aka, confessions part 3, or 4, or whatever number he’s on now. He sees that he can’t sell records married to that manish, gold digging excuse for a woman and realizes that his marriage killed his career and now he wants it back. Whatever the case, I still believe that Man-Teka knows something about him that he doesn’t want the rest of the world to know, so in order to keep her mouth shut, he gave her a marriage and two kids, aka, some secured funds for the future. I refuse to believe that he would MARRY a person like her given her very shady past…way more to this story than what’s being told.
MzPRsays...
October 7th, 2009
1:16 pm
This is a trick…PR STUNT….he knows that if if he releases his next CD still married to her it will FAIL as did…Here I Stand. Come on people…lets be real here. He is only doing this so it can sell like Confessions did. That’s why he’s not signing the papers! Don’t be fooled, we already know Tameka would be bashing him through all media outlets if this was real!!!! Great PR Stunt.
Music Exec.
October 7th, 2009
1:17 pm
Non-story here. Nobody cares that another celeb is getting divorced. Tameka is nothing without this guy or his money, period.
vyfine
October 7th, 2009
1:26 pm
Usher, wasn’t ready for marriage. He was mentally to young. This isn’t a bad thing; however, he must be honest with himself. Usher should’ve listen to his mother, mother’s see and feel things that their children don’t maybe all of this mess would’ve happen. I don’t know Usher and I felt he shouldn’t married Tameka. This is coming from a mother’s view. Usher you must care for your children in ever way possible as a father, they are your focus.
Good Luck,
Vyfine