Someone once described divorce to me as feeling like "death". The thought of legally seperating from someone you vowed to stay with forever, even in "sickness and health" must be even more traumatic when there are kids involved.
Rapper Nas' divorce from singer Kelis played out in front of the world. Neither one of them afforded the luxury of privacy during that trying time.
For Nas though, it had to especially tough. Seemed like every week the Queens bred mc was being dragged into court by Kelis' lawyer for another monetary beating.
In April the rapper had to hand over $47,249.42 in back child support and $40,454 in back spousal support. The judge also ordered Nas to pay $10,000 a month in spousal support until he pays off the $299,015.50 he owed Kelis.
On top of that, he had to pay 90% of the $155,787.28 Kelis had accumulated in legal fees and another $48,549.83 to cover her accounting expenses.
With their divorce finalized in May, you would think the financial beating would have stopped, but not quite.
Last month Nas was found to be behind $52,989.22 in payments for the home where Kelis lives. So he was ordered to pay $14,000 a month on the house for seven months until he caught up, then $8,000 a month afterwards. Where the money is going to come from, only God knows because Nas hasn't had a hit in forever.
Kelis seems to think all is good between the two now though. She recently told USMagazine they were getting along just fine.
"Yeah everything's fine. We are divorced, but there is no point to fighting -- there is nothing to fight about. I am super happy; my life is awesome. We are friends, we get along now and it's all good," she told them.
I wonder what Nas would say if asked the same question.
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