While speaking with Bishop T.D. Jakes in a new interview, former NFL player-turned-podcaster Cam Newton admitted that he puts his loved ones (family, friends, and women he dates) through tests to see if they’re “gonna fight” for him “for better or for worse.”
During the January 5 episode of Jakes’ ‘NXT Chapter Podcast,’ 36-year-old Newton talked about his views on relationships, marriage, fatherhood, and finding peace. At one point, Bishop Jakes asked Newton, “You’ve always had an audience. When all the audiences are gone and it’s just you, what’s going on in here [points to his heart]?”
Newton, who is a PK (preacher’s kid), continued to answer and even brought up the bible. He said:
“I’m at peace the most. But, there’s a lot of me that asked the question, ‘Are you gonna fight for me?’ Because when I was vulnerable to the Individuals—that’s family, that’s friends, that’s partners — ‘Are you gonna fight for me?’ That’s what I’m most scared of.
Because everybody in love. Everybody want to walk down [the aisle]. Everybody wanna—everybody want to do all the festive marital stuff that the bible don’t even say. And I when I call it out I’m like, ‘Yo, the bible ain’t never mentioned no honeymoon. The bible ain’t never mentioned the ring. The bible ain’t never mentioned spending millions and thousands of dollars on a marriage celebration. The bible didn’t say a lot of these things, but if we’re going off of the bible’s accord, there’s a lot of worldly things that have crept into it.
So, now for me above all, going back to the most impactful vow, for me, I want to know without a shadow of a doubt, for better or for worse…”
Cam Newton Explains Why He Puts The Women He Dates Through ‘Tests’
Newton continued to share, “But, don’t just walk with me when it’s for the betterment of you. And as long as people understand that… When you are hurt…” Jakes offered, “‘Come get me.'” Newton continued, “I may tell you, ‘Man, get the hell away…'” Jakes said, “But don’t pay that no attention.” Newton fired off, “That’s a character. See what I’m saying? But then some will say, ‘Oh that’s toxic. Uhn Uhn. Miss me with that. It’s like no.’
Jakes added, “Toxic masculinity. Tests.” Newton agreed, “Yeah, they got different words.” Realizing Jakes was understanding him, Newton reached for a fist-bump from Jakes, as the Bishop reiterated, “‘Will you come get me?’ It’s really a test because your definition of love is proven by the other person coming to get you and that way you don’t have to worry about abandonment.”
Newton quipped, “Checkmate.” Jakes reassured him, “I got you.” Newton continued to explain his way of thinking, sharing:
“I’ll take you through these courses just to see—this is the only way I can find out. I mean you call it how I see it, man. My father ain’t raised no fool. And I done got fooled before.
So, for me, I need to sit up here and say, like, ‘Hey, hold on. I hate to do this to you, baby, I I gotta see you. You know what you got in me: the good. But, I really don’t know and that’s what I’m afraid of. That’s not to say that I can’t come along or come around to being that or everybody to understand that it’s, like, yo this journey, It’s a journey. But, it’s lopsided until it’s not.”
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