Former NFL player Ed Hartwell has responded to news of his divorce from Keshia Knight Pulliam, one week after the actress announced her pregnancy.
In a sneak peek of an exclusive interview with Page Six TV contributor Carlos Greer, Hartwell addresses his wife’s pregnancy and rumours of her alleged infidelity.
Hartwell, who married Knight Pulliam after only four months of dating, reveals: “She wanted a baby really fast, and what I was trying to explain to her was that — from my beliefs, from seeing other successful people — that when you first get married, especially since we didn’t have a long courtship, that we should actually focus on each other and not just have a baby. That’s something she really did want to do.”
The former Baltimore Ravens linebacker goes on to say that he “had a sit-down” with his wife in February where he said, “I think we probably messed up. I think we moved too fast. Our lives and wants are headed in two different directions.” During that conversation, he also confessed that his ex of four years had “lost a baby,” which made him realize that he still “cared about her”.
“[Knight Pulliam] wasn’t mad that I still cared about her,” Hartwell recalls. “All she was mad about was, ‘You don’t want to have a baby, but you’re mad about her baby. You can’t talk to her 13-year-old daughter. And there was a big fall-out.”
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Hartwell recalls that Knight Pulliam was reportedly so upset that she fled to visit a spiritualist and “started going out with friends all the time and not telling me when she was coming home or sometimes not coming home at all.”
“I can’t say she’s been unfaithful. I can say she’s stayed out, she’s not come home, she’s went out-of-town… for three days, I don’t know what’s going on. I can say that,” he says. “I can’t say she was unfaithful. I can say she wanted to get in vitro, I can say she wanted to do some things to make sure she got pregnant. I just want to make sure it is mine.”