Over the years, we have heard some crazy stories regarding athletes, but none of them hold a candle to what Eddy Curry has gone through.
The former NBA player, who played in the league from 2001 to 2012, shared some insight this week into some struggles he’s dealt with off the court. In a piece he wrote for The Players’ Tribune, the 37-year-old spoke candidly about the shocking murder of his mistress and his daughter in 2009 and how his wife never even knew about the woman.
“A lot of people don’t know about Nova.
I saw her on and off for a few years while I was with the Knicks. We had two kids together.
On the day Nova was murdered — shot down in cold blood back home in Chicago — one of the many people who didn’t know about her was my wife, Patrice.
Patrice also didn’t know about the children I’d had with Nova — my 10-month-old daughter, Ava, and her three-year-old brother, Noah.
I kept it a secret. All of it. For years.
So as I’m on the phone learning that my infant daughter and her mother had just been murdered … I’m also coming to grips with the fact that my marriage of nearly four years would almost certainly be over.
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.
When I asked if the police knew who did it, I learned that they thought it was Nova’s lawyer. He had been overseeing the child support payments, and she’d been dating him. In the past she’d warned me that he was dangerous. Dude actually brought a gun to her baby shower for Ava because he thought I might be there.”
Her attorrney, Frederick Goings, would be found guilty of all the charges against him in 2013.
He then talked about his wife, Ptrice, took the news.
“She was basically exactly like what you’d think a good woman would be like when she’s just found out that her husband has been lying to her for years,” he said. “And, I mean, I don’t blame her — I had been a terrible husband for a long time by that point.”
Curry said he was temporarily kicked out as he found himself in state of “darkness.”
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In the end, he said he had to “figure out how to keep on living somehow,” and despite Patrice being livid with him, she stayed by his side and helped him get through everything. She harbored no ill will towards him and even embraced the son, Noah, he shared with Nova, caring for him along with their four other children and another son from his first marriage, saying, “He calls her Mom. Not because we told him to, or because we made him. He does that because he wants to — because he loves her just as much as she loves him.”
“If there’s a hero character in the crazy story of my life, that hero is most definitely Patrice,” he said. “In the 15 years we’ve been married, she’s been through what amounts to about 15 lifetimes’ worth of drama — infidelity, unspeakable tragedy, multiple lawsuits, home foreclosures, several dozen financial scams, and on and on. She could’ve left me thousands of times. And I really couldn’t have faulted her. But you know what? She’s still right here. She never turned her back on me.”
“Patrice actually ended up coming back to Chicago with me when I went to the funeral home to pay my respects to the woman I was cheating on her with and the little girl she didn’t know her husband had fathered. I can’t even imagine how hard that must have been,” he added. “And right now, as I write this thing out, she’s in the other room helping our kids with their homework. She is the best person I’ve ever known.”
