We knew Idris Elba had a second wife but we didn’t know exactly who she was until now. A 44-year-old woman named Sonya Hamlin revealed to the world that she’s the secret wife, and she lets just say she came out the closet major tea, with a lil shade.
Now #Roommates, Idris recently ended his relationship with the mother of his two year old son, Naiyana Garth, so it’s a little odd that Sonya decided to start spilling tea.
Sonya sat down with The Mail, and reveled that she and Idris met in 2006 and got married that year. She began opening about their relationship:
People were telling him he was going to ruin his career. He was being told it was an important part of his image to be a single sex symbol in Hollywood and being married would damage that. It was very sad. Idris and I were madly in love, but he was getting a lot of flak for being married. Everyone was like, “Dude, you’re the hottest sex symbol!” “It wasn’t the right look”, that’s what they were telling him. I wanted to save the marriage.’
It was Idris who decided to end the marriage:
Some people used to say, “Why her?” That’s what they were telling him. It used to upset him. He was like, “Why don’t people just let me be happy?” I couldn’t understand how it would damage his career because I saw actors like Denzel [Washington] be successfully married. But I don’t think those actors’ wives are running law firms. It wasn’t easy for either of us,’ Sonya continues. ‘We sat down here in Maryland and decided we were going to file. We wavered a couple of times. We were both just sad. He hugged me, of course. It was very sad.
She went on to talk about how she handled their divorce:
“There was no certainty that he was going to go on and be a big star, and he had a daughter to provide for, and maybe he had to make the tough decision. He was protective of me, but he listened to people in his ear. He was the love of my life. I was always successful, and so having a failed marriage was hard, and then my business took a huge plunge in the recession. It was a double-whammy for me. I didn’t date anybody for years.”
She even opened up about how she felt about the actor today:
“He’s the best actor you have in Britain, and will probably be the next James Bond, and he’s won awards and Emmys,’ she says, though in reality Elba has earned four Emmy nominations without a win. ‘He’s got an Oscar coming, no question.’”
Sonya admits that any relationship after their’a probably wasn’t that genuine:
“‘Maybe anything after that wasn’t genuine, otherwise he would have married them. I’d be happy for him if he got married again, and he genuinely loved that person. I’m not a jealous person. I want him to be happy, just like I’m sure he wants me to be happy. I don’t think he’s ever going to have a problem being lonely.”
TSR Staff: Kyle Anfernee Instagram: @Kyle.Anfernee
Source: http://thejasminebrand.com/2016/04/17/idris-elba-ex-wife-sonya-hamlin/
