Tyrese’s ex, Samantha Lee is taking some accountability for her the part that she played in their past relationship. While speaking to her fans on live Lee admitted that she played a part in the downfall of their relationship because she devalued herself and operated within the marriage with a sense of fear.
“I’m looking back on relationships, y’all, and I see that I was the problem,” she starts her confession. “Why was I the problem, Sam? I was the problem because I didn’t see me accurately. … Because I didn’t see myself well. … I didn’t see my value. … I didn’t see who I was .… I didn’t see those things. I think that I accepted things I shouldn’t have for way too long,” she added. “I allowed people to kind of dictate the terms in which I would accept without really having a great understanding of who I was. And therefore, I stayed in relationships way past their expiration date.”
She went on to open up and explain how she allowed people to mistreat her. “Accepting the bare minimum, not realizing that there’s a part of you that feels like you only deserve the bare minimum,” Samantha Lee said, adding that she wasn’t in the best head space. “I’m not going into dating thinking, ‘Oh my God, I gotta make it work for him. He is the only option in my head.’ In my experience, that’s not true. It’s just not. But when I came in with that scarcity mindset, guess what? It was damaging. Because I’m trying to make things work for people that ain’t ‘posed to work,” she said. “I’m not tryna make it work if it don’t work.”
Lee’s latest video is in response to Tyrese releasing his new song “Love Transaction,” on which he called out his ex-wife. He claimed that while he “got married to do it for the rest of [his] life, it was all a game to her.”
He sings, “Up and left, shouldn’t cost a thing / So why must I pay all these lawyer fees? [..] Now you got me asking is this love or is it just a love transaction?”
Later he sings, “Dragging me in and out of court / Trying to take all that I’ve been working for / Can you justify what you say the baby needs / Don’t I make sure that she has everything / 20,000 isn’t child support / We both know just who that money’s for.”