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Grab your favorite rennet and have some Lactaid on hand, because we’re talking cheese, baby. Cheddar. Bucks. Money, honey. Not our cheese, but Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union’s.
Former Miami Heat star Wade, who has been married to Union since 2014, appeared on the Club Shay Shay podcast earlier this week and expanded on Union’s recent comments about financial responsibilities in their marriage.
“In this household, we split everything fifty-fifty,” Union said on the Black Millionaires podcast in May.
It’s a little more complicated than that, Wade said.
“That is not how our Relationship works,” he said, before explaining that he and Union pay for joint responsibilities, like their homes and children, together, but not everything.
“Fifty-fifty in our household is, first of all, let’s say I have 20 to 50 responsibilities, and my wife has 20 to 50 responsibilities,” he said. “When I say that I mean she has her mother, she has her sisters, she has her dad, she has a lot of things that she’s responsible for. You know what she does? She pays 100 percent of that. You know what I do? I pay 100 percent of my life.”
The arrangement came about, he said, after a comment that he made years back.
“I think I said one time in Miami that it was my house that I paid for, and my wife looked at me and said, ‘You will never say that again when it’s something that we share.’ So when we moved to LA, she was like, ‘I got half on it. You will never say ‘my house’ again.’ She said, ‘You can say that in the arena.’ In our life, at home, fifty-fifty, we purchased it together. Our daughter, fifty-fifty, we share it together.”
“We probably share three things in our life that we’re 50/50 on,” he said. “Everything else I’m 1,000 percent and she’s 1,000 percent. And so we decided that certain pieces of our life we would share in it.”
He gave specific examples of things that he might pay for on his own, including sandwiches (“Everybody thinks fifty-fifty means I’m like, ‘Hey, baby, I’m gonna go get this sandwich, you got $10 on it.’”) and yacht trips (“If we take a yacht trip, we can do it fifty-fifty, or I can pick it up”). Typical household stuff, you know?
He said that both he and Union signed prenuptial agreements, and sang the praises of the legal document: “I signed a prenup too. [I told Union], ‘You a millionaire. You got money, you worked hard for yourself.’ You’ve got insurance, don’t you?”
Both Union and Wade have been previously married and divorced, and Wade has three children from other Relationships, in addition to daughter Kaavia James Union-Wade, whom he shares with Union. “I got ex-wives, I got all kind of stuff,” he said. “My cheese go all over the place.”
And if Union would like to add her own handful of shredded cheddar on top of the very fancy entree of their life, combining forces to upgrade their circumstances, cool.
“My wife is a working woman. She’s a boss and an independent woman in her own life,” Wade said. “She’s like, ‘That lil 200 that you was gonna spend on this, I’m gonna throw something else on that, and we’re gonna go on a bigger trip. We’re gonna ball up.’ This is my wife. I don’t know about y’all, but I like having a wife that’s like that’s cool you can do that. The house we live in, thank god, Hidden Hills, nice house, whatever millions. We could have had a nice house on my 50 percent too, it would have been nice, she was like no, let me put something else on it and let us live a little different.”
Those “whatever millions,” by the way, are $17.9 of them, and the property has a 12-car garage with a turntable. You know, so you can get to your 12 cars easier.
Whatever their financial breakdown, he said that Union is 100 percent in charge of herself, as much as that sometimes pains him.
“I don’t make my wife do anything, first of all,” he said. “If I could, we wouldn’t be in the headlines all the time. I’m like, would you stop talking! My wife had this microphone long before I did. Y’all been watching Bring It On for a long time. She’s been bringing it on for a long time.”
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