On May 2 The “View” co-host, Sherri Shepherd abruptly filed for divorce from Lamar Sally, her husband of nearly three years last month. She broke her silence while speaking with Us Weekly at the Samsung Hope for Children Gala in New York City, on Tuesday, June 10.
Shepherd told Us, “I say you can’t beat yourself up when you know you’ve made the wrong choice in a guy. You look, you do some introspective work, and you try not to make the same mistake.”
She continued: “If you do, get Sheppard , also asked for full legal and physical custody of her yet-to-be-born baby in the divorce filing. The baby is due this summe via a surrogate.
Shepherd had advice on how she’s currently coping with the split. She told Us Weekly, “Have really good friends around you, so you have a soft landing place. I have really amazing friends. I have a lot of really wonderful friends [who] say ‘erase that!'”
“At the end of the day, I hope that my character and my integrity will scream louder. There’s always someone worse off than you. You have to really sit down and be thankful for the things that you have. Eventually, everything will be OK. When the dust settles, you figure out what went wrong — but as long as you’re alive and you can breathe, you [can] get up and keep going. For me, my child can’t afford to see Mommy having a nervous breakdown. It’s not in the cards.”
