The former 'The Cosby Show' star, who's currently pregnant with her first child, breaks down in tears while responding to her husband Ed Hartwell's request to have paternity test for the baby.
- Jul 28, 2016
AceShowbiz - It's been one hell of a week for Keshia Knight Pulliam. Days after her husband Ed Hartwell surprised her with divorce papers and cheating accusation while she's pregnant with their first child, the former "The Cosby Show" star tearfully opened up about their painful split in a new interview with ET.
"I don't know if it's the hormones... no, it's all of it, because it's fresh," Pulliam told ET's Nischelle Turner. "And it's hurtful. And I knew I couldn't be silent, because this isn't about money. This isn't about fame. This isn't about social media likes or follows. This is about my character - my integrity as a woman being attacked - and that's not OK."
Pulliam then denied that she'd been unfaithful to her husband during their seven-month marriage and instead claimed that she's the one being cheated on. She said she was ready to leave the former NFL star after learning of his unfaithfulness months ago, but decided to give him another chance when she found out she's pregnant.
"Early on in my marriage when I was faced with this, I was ready to leave. It's not OK," she recalled. "I had divorce papers ready. I presented it to him. ... Once I was pregnant I did decide to give him that one last chance. The part that hurt me the most when he filed for divorce was that he had asked me to give him another chance, and I was willing to do that and forgive him, for our family."
Pulliam went on addressing her husband's request to have paternity test for the baby. "This is his baby. He wanted more children. He was excited once he found out that we were having a little girl. There was never a question about that," she said of Hartwell, who's already a dad to 9-year-old son from his previous marriage to "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Lisa Wu. "No point after we got pregnant was there an issue of the fact that we're having a baby."
She now has no desire to stay married to Hartwell. Asked if she still loved him, she said, "I love who he pretended to be. I have no desire to continue to be married to him. That's why I'm doing this one interview and I'm dying. I'm not going to continue to revisit, regurgitate... but I won't allow people to tell blatant lies about me."
Pulliam and Hartwell got married on New Year's Eve in a secret wedding in their home. She announced her pregnancy earlier this month before her husband filed for divorce from her on Monday, July 25.
