Ne-Yo isn’t afraid to talk to his kids about anything — even his numerous relationships.
In an interview on the Rickey Smiley Morning Show on Thursday, February 20, the singer admitted that his seven children are well aware of the fact that he’s in polyamorous relationships with four women — if they ask.
“I answer them,” he said of the questions his kids ask him.” Honesty. I’m not lying to nobody, not even my children.”
Ne-Yo also explained how he introduces his new partners to his children at home. He shares two children with ex Monyetta Shaw-Carter, three kids with ex-wife Crystal Renay and two children with ex Sade Jenea.
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“It’s like, ‘Hey, this is daddy’s girlfriend,” he said. “And so is that, and so is that, and so is that. She gonna make you some cereal, she gonna cook lunch and she gonna wash your clothes.’ And it’s all good.”
Ne-Yo also said he carries the same honesty into the relationships he has with multiple women. “I ain’t manipulating nobody, I ain’t brainwash nobody, I ain’t lying to nobody,” he insisted. “I set it out there. ‘Here’s what it is. I like you, but I also like her, and her, and her. If you cool with that, come on we gonna have a great time.’”
He also said that while the lifestyle choice isn’t for everyone, it clearly works for him.
“Everybody’s honest,” Ne-Yo said. “Everybody’s telling the truth. Everybody is consenting. I feel like I wasted a lot of time just being dishonest about things, to the point where had I taken this approach initially, I could’ve saved myself a lot of headache and heartache.”
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Ne-Yo’s exes, meanwhile, have made it clear that the lifestyle didn’t work for some of them. In August 2023, Shaw-Carter said on “Haus of Aaron” that threesomes became a problem for the couple. “We cheated together, if that makes sense,” she said, holding up three fingers. “We did things together. It’s not cheating if you’re involved with it and then it just wasn’t enough [for him].”
She continued, “I was like, ‘Well, no, I didn’t sign up to do this every day.’ It became a problem when he wanted that a lot.”
She added that she was okay with involving another person in their sex life “twice a year,” but it wasn’t enough to sustain their relationship. “I was like, ‘If you want that, then you don’t want me.’ I tried to keep it cute and spicy, but it wasn’t enough. But it is what it is.”
