Marlon Wayans is responding to his ex Brittany Moreland submitting for full custody of their 15-month-old daughter, Axl, and asking for elevated youngster help.
Wayans, 51, presently pays $18,000 a month, and Moreland, 34, needs an extra $2,000. In response to court docket paperwork, she can also be requesting that Wayans be allowed visitation rights, nonetheless, the comic objects to being a “visitor” to see his youngster.
“Do you pay all that money per month and be called a ‘visitor’? Do the math. This is delusional,” Wayans advised The Shade Room in an interview printed Thursday, March 21. “I will let the lawyers and God do what they do. I’ll be creating art from a broken heart. I got nothing but love. Even when it’s bad, it’s good … it’s GOD.”
Wayans additionally commented on Moreland requesting extra youngster help.
“It’s the classic case of a good, loving, responsible father shelling out over $18k per month for a one-year-old, and an entitled woman decides she wants more,” he stated. “My mama and dem would’ve lost their minds for $2K.”
Wayans additionally has two kids, Kai, 23, and Shawn, 21, with ex Angela Zackery, with whom he was in a relationship from 1992 to 2013.
He cited his amicable relationship with Zackery as proof that he’s a accountable mum or dad.
“All these women having to drag men to court who pay NOTHING towards their children,” he continued. “And here, a woman gets a doctor’s salary and says it isn’t enough? I’ve had two children before this. I’ve never had this problem. I’m a good man with a good heart and strong sense of responsibility, but I refuse to be used and discredited.”
The Scary Film star additionally says rumors that he was hiding their daughter from the world are false. He signed a voluntary declaration of parentage on December 13, 2022, simply someday after the infant woman’s beginning.
“The baby isn’t a secret. The mama has been posted. But I chose to keep the baby’s private life private,” Wayans added. “Ain’t nobody’s business. Social media is toxic and dangerous, and I’d like to keep her peace.”
Wayans doesn’t typically talk about his kids, nonetheless, late final yr, he revealed that his oldest youngster, Kai, got here out as transgender.
“I have a daughter that transitioned into a son. My daughter Amai is now Kai,” he stated throughout a November 2023 episode of “The Breakfast Club” podcast, including that he’ll handle the affect of Kai’s journey in an upcoming comedy particular.
“I talk about the transition — not their transition but my transition — as a parent going from ignorance and denial to complete, unconditional love and acceptance,” Wayans defined. “And I think there’s a lot of parents out there that need to have that message. And I know I’m dealing with it. It was a very painful situation for me, but man, it’s one of the best, funniest hours I probably could ever imagine.”
Wayans revealed that his upcoming particular — which he teased shall be known as Skittles or Rainbow Little one — was carried out in entrance of necessary “world leaders.” The choice to carry out his set about Kai for the group was one he made deliberately.
It was that massive of a crowd and I felt like, ‘I want to do this set right here because it’s necessary to me,’” Wayans shared. “What’s important to me? Comedy. What’s important to me? My children. And what’s important is change.”