Basketball Star Richard Jefferson Dumps His Wife Via Email Days Before Scheduled Wedding and I’m Not Gay
Former Net star Richard Jefferson admitted yesterday that he told his beautiful bride-to-be that their wedding was off in an e-mail — stunning her just days before their planned posh nuptials.
Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols got the heart-wrenching message after a tense Fourth of July weekend, Jefferson told The Post.
“There was a lot of stress and tension in the relationship. We’ve been through a lot — but we just couldn’t continue,” said Jefferson, sounding upset during a telephone interview.
But at least Nichols got a nice parting gift — Jefferson, who was traded from the Milwaukee Bucks to the San Antonio Spurs last month, said he’s giving her a “six-figure” settlement so she can start a new life.
“I won’t say a negative word about Kesha. She is one of my best friends,” said Jefferson, who courted for nearly five years.
He said things came to a head when they celebrated July 4 in LA, a week before their planned July 11 wedding at the luxurious Mandarin Oriental on Columbus Circle.
After Nichols boarded a plane back to New York the next day, Jefferson said, he sent her the devastating e-mail.
“Sometimes you might write an e-mail to get your thoughts down right,” he explained.
After Nichols — and the message — arrived in New York, the couple spoke by phone for two hours, Jefferson said.
Jefferson said they haven’t spoken in a week.“It was a conversation Kesha and I had,” he said, adding only that it was “a combination of things” that led to the split.
“It’s been an emotional time for both of us,” he said. “I know she’s hurt. I’m hurt, too.”
The couple had planned to top off their $500,000 wedding with a honeymoon in London, where they had tickets to one of the Michael Jackson comeback shows.
Of the money he’s giving Nichols, Jefferson said, “I’m not trying to buy her off. She has a lump sum to help her move on.”
He added, “I’ve made my mistakes in this relationship, 100 percent. But at the end of the day, there were some people who were responsible for the demise of it.”
He insisted a rumor he’s gay had nothing to do with the breakup.
“I’m not gay,” Jefferson said. “That couldn’t be any further from the truth. I have nothing to hide.”
Nichols could not be reached.
On July 6, Jefferson told his family the wedding was off.
Kesha told her family and friends the next day, he said.
Because some out-of-town guests were already in, or en route to, New York, they decided to go through with a dinner that was supposed to have been part of the wedding celebration, Jefferson said.
The jilted bride, a former Net dancer, checked into the Mandarin and spent what would have been her wedding night in a luxury suite. A fellow dancer pal of Kesha, Keltie Colleen, wrote on her blog that Nichols was “going through some serious grief.”
None of Jefferson’s family made the trip. “My family didn’t take this well. I’m the last one not to have married,” said Jefferson, the son of Christian missionaries. “My family was looking forward to me starting a family of my own.” Jefferson flew to Paris last week with some basketball buddies. He went “only because I care about her so much that I didn’t want to change my mind after those emails were sent,” he said. “I didn’t want to start missing her and decide, ‘let’s do this.”‘ “It’s so crazy, the divorce rate out there,” Jefferson added. “If you aren’t 100 percent certain about something, you shouldn’t do it.”
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Comment by onesmartblackboy on July 18, 2009 at 5:06pm - kkk is gay
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Comment by Isaiah Ramon on July 18, 2009 at 1:44pm - jefferson is gay
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Comment by Mag-negro on July 17, 2009 at 6:54pm - That nigga's gay.
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Comment by PhiL on July 17, 2009 at 3:55pm - That nigga is GAY u can c that its pouring out of him he even play ball gay lolz neva like that nigga 4 some reason every since he was a rookie then that gay shyt came up that was it now this lmaooo
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Comment by Josh on July 17, 2009 at 9:35am
- Better to call it off if ur not sure than just get a divorce.
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Comment by Damian Birski on July 17, 2009 at 6:15am - you motherfuckers are all fucked up it aint bout the looks its bout the way she no wonder why u all cant stay wit one girl
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