Shaquille O'Neal Makes Plea to Jeff Bezos & Admits Tough Love Lessons

Everyone has regrets successful life, and for Shaquille O'Neal, his biggest one is the extremity of his nine-year matrimony to ex-wife Shaunie Henderson.

"You don't cognize however bully you got thing till it's gone," the NBA prima exclusively said connected the Dec. 1 occurrence of E! News. "I mentioned astir having a 76,000-square-foot location and cipher successful there. That was each my fault."

"I didn't bash the close thing," helium added, "and I decidedly paid for it." Shaq admitted to cheating connected the erstwhile Basketball Wives star—with whom helium stock kids Myles, 25, Shareef, 22, Amirah, 21, Shaqir, 19, and Me'arah, 16—in his 2011 memoir Shaq Uncut: My Story.

But aft immoderate pugnacious times, it seems the erstwhile mates is presently connected bully terms. Shaunie adjacent gave him a "courtesy invite" to her nuptials with hubby Keion Henderson earlier this year, though she told E! News successful November that the hoops subordinate did not attend.

Earlier this year, Shaq opened up astir his 2011 divorcement connected the April 19 episode of The Pivot podcast. "Sometimes erstwhile you unrecorded that treble life, you get caught up," helium said. "I'm not going to accidental it was her. She did precisely what she was expected to bash and gave maine beauteous kids, instrumentality attraction of the house, instrumentality attraction of the firm stuff. It was conscionable each me."

Hear much from Shaq—including however helium precocious teamed up with chap hoops subordinate Alonzo Mourning to unfastened up Icy Hot's newest Comebaq Court successful Miami, arsenic good arsenic his enactment with The Shaquille O'Neal Foundation—in the afloat clip above.

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