"The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd has finally broken her silence to Us Weekly in New York during the Samsung Hope for Children Gala on Tuesday, June 10, with regards to the abrupt divorce she filed from then-husband Lamar Sally only last month. She filed the divorce only few months before the birth of their child via a surrogate, who is scheduled to give birth this summer.
Shepherd told Us Weekly, "I say you can't beat yourself up when you know you've made the wrong choice in a guy." She further explained, "You look, you do some introspective work, and you try not to make the same mistake. If you do, get back up, dust your feet off, and start walking and moving forward."
Shepherd was married to Sally for almost three years. She has an 8-year-old son named Jeffrey whom she had with her first husband Jeff Tarpley. She also asked for full legal and physical custody of her yet-to-be-born child.
At 47 years old, Shepherd has already gone through a lot, especially having already experienced a previous divorce. She doled out some advice with how she coped with her recent split with Sally, "Have really good friends around you, so you have a soft landing place." She told Us Weekly in reference to her current friendship with "The View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, "I have really amazing friends. I have a lot of really wonderful friends."
She gave Us Weekly a peek into her life perspective, "There's always someone worse off than you. You have to really sit down and be thankful for the things that you have." Knowing that everything in her life will settle down and will soon be okay, she said, "When the dust settles, you figure out what went wrong - but as long as you're alive and you can breathe, you get up and keep going. For me, my child can't afford to see Mommy having a nervous breakdown. It's not in the cards."
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