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Tyrese is updating fans on his personal life and revealed that he and his girlfriend, Zelie Timothy, have just broken up.
On Sunday, February 11, Tyrese took to Instagram to share a video with fans. The singer sat in front of the camera wearing a blue beanie and pointing his middle finger.
A brief caption over the clip read: “Katt Williams, 50 Cent, Kanye”
Then, as he spoke, he explained that “everybody’s pissed.”
“My lawyers, my managers everybody’s pissed,” he told viewers. “I just released my double album today, but it’s only available for ten hours.”
The singer then explained that he placed the names of Katt Wiliams, 50 Cent, and Kanye West on his video for clickbait. The clip then cut to a trailer for a four-part documentary series that promoted the singer’s newly released album, ‘Beautiful Pain.’
The trailer included narration from Tyrese, delving into the most “heartbreaking” moments of his life. However, in the caption of his Instagram video, Tyrese also delved into a tribulation he’s facing right now.
“… My superbowl plans are f****d.. power outage in my neighborhood so Im going at em,” he wrote. “And me and Zelie just broke up over some dumb s**t… Remember this.. She demanded that I cancel my ALBUM because theres too many songs about my ex on there.. f**k does that even mean?”
Social media users entered The Shade Room’s comment section to share their reactions to Tyrese’s revelation.
“It means she would like you to heal first.. we all dolets pray for our Latino hermano”
“Tyrese the type to wake up and say ‘man I gotta tell the world about this s**t’ ”
“He need a diary like Moesha”
“She shouldve left because you keep running to social media with your issues”
“And this is why y’all gotta take the time necessary to heal first before jumping to the next person”
“She did the right thing Ik an unhealed man when I see one chile”
“ It means that she wants you to move on, and stop putting her in the middle of your hurt every month.”
“Sigh. Tyrese. Tyreseing. Lol. (I admit I wondered how his young girlfriend felt about all those songs as well )”
“He definitely talks about his ex too much like bruh youre not over her YET”
As The Shade Room previously reported, Tyrese has been very vocal about his marriage and pending divorce from his ex-wife, Samantha Lee. In May 2023, he publicly shared that he felt their union “was never love” but “just a transaction.”
“Wow, we did a whole marriage and did the whole duration of a child and starting a family, just to find out it was all about money. Status. Transaction,” he explained at the time. “Imagine me being the only actorin a relationship, to then realize that I was in a relationship for five years with one of the best actors Ive ever met in my f*****g life.”
Before making these statements, the singer revealed that his “most important” album, ‘Beautiful Pain,’ would delve into his marriage with Lee.
“I dont want to sing about this divorce no more. I dont want to sing about none of this painful s**t, heartbreaking sad s**t,” he said in a voice note shared via Instagram. “Even though its my truth and its the most important album that Ive ever done Talking about my ex, I just dont want to do it for another two years”
From there, the year continued with Tyrese calling Samantha Lee out amid paying her $20,000 for child support. Although Lee denied his claims about her seemingly being money-hungry, the singer continued to refer to her as a “heartless” individual.
Although Tyrese was publicly in a relationship with Zelie Timothy, he even spoke on the possibility of him and Lee reconciling.
