Stephen and Ayesha Curry have come a long way together, and while they have built an empire together, it has come with various bumps in the road.
Back in 2019, things got really crazy when Ayesha made comments on an episode of Red Table Talk that made her a trending topic for days.
The fallout from her interview with the women of Red Table Talk came in response to an admission she made of feeling insecure about the disproportionate attention she receives from men against the attention her husband, NBA star Steph Curry, receives from women.
“Something that really bothers me, and honestly has given me a sense of a little bit of an insecurity, is the fact that — yeah, there are all these women, like, throwing themselves [at him], but me, like, the past 10 years, I don’t have any of that,” she said on the Facebook Watch show. “I have zero — this sounds weird — but, like, male attention, and so then I begin to internalize it, and I’m like, ‘Is something wrong with me?'”
Curry, a cookbook author, added that it’s not attention she necessarily wants, “but it’d be nice to know that, like, someone’s looking.”
The reaction on social media to the comment was immediate and ridiculing. It’s been years and social media makes sure that she never forgets what she said.
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Fast forward to 2023 and Curry is now blaming the editing in the final cut of the interview for making her sound crazy.
“Ayesha Curry has a bone to pick with Red Table Talk.
The 34-year-old appeared on the Facebook Watch series in 2019, joining Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne “Gammy” Banfield-Norris alongside her own family members for a candid conversation surrounding mental health. Now, speaking with Insider for its digital cover story, Curry says that she was unhappy with the final edit of the episode.
As a newly postpartum, breastfeeding mother at that time, Curry expressed a level of anxiety surrounding female attention that is often directed at her husband, NBA Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry, among other things.
The show that aired, she says, “was edited in a way that made me sound crazy.”
Curry continues, “It’s not what I said, and the context was weird. Yeah. I took that one personally.”
In the episode, Curry opened up about how she deals with the attention that her husband receives from female fans.
“Stephen is very nice by nature and he’s very talkative,” she explained. “Everything is always very friendly and sometimes to the point where I’m like, I’m a grown woman so I’ll just insert myself. I’ll be like, ‘Hello. How are you doing?’”
She added, “The ladies will always be lurking, hoping for their moment and waiting. But for me, I honestly hate it.”
Red Table Talk has since been canceled by Facebook Watch.
The feature of her interview centers around Curry’s step back from the spotlight after years of being one of the NBA’s most famous family members.
As a regular on Twitter in the past, Ayesha has only tweeted three times in 2023 and usually just retweets things. It’s clear she does not want to be at the center of controversy any longer, but bringing up that interview and blaming the editing won’t help much.
