Eddy Curry wants the narrative about him to stop.
The former No. 4 overall pick in the NBA draft who never turned into the next big thing as he was projected to published an emotionally devastating piece in The Players’ Tribune on Thursday.
In the piece, Curry goes through a number of heartbreaking stories that included him having a mistress he fathered two kids with that his wife never knew about. In January 2009, Nova Henry, 24, and her 10-month-old daughter Ava were shot dead by her ex-boyfriend who was also her lawyer that handled the child support payments negotiated with Curry.
“Before I knew it, I was on a plane flying back to New York, and even just within those few hours more and more details became clear. I found out that my son Noah was right there when his mother and sister were shot. But he was so little that he didn’t really understand what had happened. He’d tried to wake up his mom after the shooting, so when the officers went in and found him there, he had blood all over him. He actually laid down next to her and had fallen asleep.
Noah hadn’t been able to wake up his mom or his sister, and probably thought they were sleeping, so he went to sleep, too.”
Curry would then into the many people in his life who always needed money for something, and he would soon find himself paying for just about everything. Not to mention, the so-called friend who tried to add his name to his life insurance papers without his knowledge.
“I’ll never forget this one time when I had to send off some life insurance papers to my accountant and asked a friend to drop the envelope in the mail for me.
This guy’s been my friend forever. We go way back. So what’s he do?
He opens up the envelope and adds his name to the forms so that if I die 10% of my assets would go to him.
Like, that’s something that someone really did. In real life.
A friend!
My accountant called me, like, “Are you sure you want to give him 10%?” and I had no idea what he was talking about.
I remember I immediately got this person on the phone, and he’s basically like, “Oh, that … yeah. My bad. You’re right. I shouldn’t have done that. I just wanted to make sure I’d have some money down the line.”
Like, you know … it wasn’t nothing really. Like….
“Oops, my bad.”
Even as his wife tried to step in, Curry still kept seeing the good in people who did not deserve it.
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“Patrice — she was on top of it. She saw it coming.
Everything.
Clear as day. Before it even happened.
The dudes who didn’t seem shady but actually were, the splurge purchases that should’ve never happened, the scammers, the friends who I thought would never do me dirty, but then did … all of it.
My wife … it’s like she could see into the future or something. She saw everything pretty much playing out the way that it did. She always tried to warn me, too. So when I hired this ex-con to be my driver because he was cool to hang out with and liked playing video games, she told me it was a bad idea.
“Come on, stop being so suspicious all the time!” I remember telling her. “It’s fine!”
Even my accountant tried to step in that time. He had an undercover officer pull the guy’s record and called me up: “Eddy, this dude went to jail for burglary. I don’t feel like this is a good idea.”
I just wasn’t hearing it, though. I was like: “He’s cool. He has a young son. He’s turned his life around. We’re friends. I want to help him support his family. It’s fiiiiiine.”
Things got crazy after his former driver attempted to get money out of him in a deceitful way.
“Then, after a few years of driving for me, that guy got an opportunity to go work for a car service that paid really well and didn’t require travel back and forth to Chicago. So I wrote him a glowing letter of recommendation, and he got the job. But when they found out about his background, the company fired him. And when I didn’t hire him back, he started calling me constantly and threatening to make up a bunch of stuff about me and go to the press. When I stopped answering his calls, he started calling friends of mine. When they stopped answering … I guess he just felt like he needed to level up.
So one night we’re playing the Mavs in Dallas and after the game a reporter comes up talking about, “What do you have to say about the sexual harassment lawsuit and the claim that you are gay and tried to force your driver to have sex with you.”
It’s like: Whaaaaaaaaaaat?
Turns out this dude took these instances when we were clowning around and talking smack to each other and put my words straight into some legal filings. It was like, “On such and such day, Mr. Curry told plaintiff to kiss his ass,” or “On this day, Mr. Curry stated that he was going to kick plaintiff in the penis and told plaintiff to perform oral sex on him.”
Before the settlement was finalized, however, both parties were left in a room and told to hash out their problems.
So it’s just me and this driver in an attorney’s office, and he’s in there crying his eyes out. I remember him telling me, like, “I’m so sorry, bro. I never meant to do this to you.” He talked about how his wife had left him and had taken his child with her. “I’m just in a bad place. I just really need some money. I’m so sorry.”
It was unreal. I just sat there in silence because I couldn’t believe this was really happening.
At one point I turn to him and am like, “So what are you saying? Are you saying that I don’t have to give you this money?”
He wipes his eyes and takes a second, and then, all quiet, he’s like: “Oh, no bro. I still need that money….
“Sorry, bro.”
Because of that situation, Curry says his name is forever connected with gay allegations.
“Now, when you Google my name, you get links to articles with titles like “Top 10 Athletes Who Are Rumored To Be Gay” and “Which Athletes Have the Gay Rumor Mill Buzzing.”
Hahahah fat-ass, broke-ass, GAY-ASS Eddy Curry. LOLOLOL.
People will always have jokes.”
