NeNe Leakes Shares Husband Gregg Has Undergone Surgery After His Cancer Returned

"This is the first time I'm saying something about it. I'd love everybody to pray for Gregg," NeNe Leakes said during an Instagram Live after opening up about her husband's health.

Gregg Leakes‘s cancer has returned, according to his wife NeNe Leakes.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum opened up about her husband’s health during an Instagram Live with The Jasmine Brand on Monday, June 28. NeNe told the host that Gregg, who was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer in 2018, was currently in the hospital after recently undergoing surgery.

“He’s been in the hospital, tomorrow will be a week,” the reality TV personality shared, adding, “I’m sure he’ll be home in about a week or so. He had to have a surgery.”

The former Bravo star explained that Gregg has “had this surgery before.” She declined to offer more details, and instead asked her fans and followers to send their love and support to her husband.

“This is the first time I’m saying something about it,” NeNe noted. “I’d love everybody to pray for Gregg…pray for his strength…and pray for me, too.”

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During the Instagram Live, NeNe also opened up about the toll this has taken on her husband.

“It’s difficult,” she shared. “He’s super small. If you’ve ever been around somebody who’s had cancer before, he’s different. He’s different.”

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Back in June 2018, NeNe first disclosed that Gregg was battling cancer. At the time, she posted a photo of the real estate developer at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, captioning her Instagram, “Our New Normal and the fight begins #f–kcancer.”

Months later, she revealed Gregg was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer on the season 11 premiere of RHOA.

“We just weren’t prepared to hear that,” NeNe said in November 2018, later adding, “It’s a very hard role to take care of someone. I feel like, if I crumble, then Gregg and Brentt—it’s going to be over. I just feel like I have to be the strong voice.” 

She continued, “I put on a brave face, but I have my moments in my bedroom, usually alone. I’ve had many moments in my car. If my car could talk it’d be like, ‘This bitch cries too much.'”

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Gregg also talked about his diagnosis on the long-running series and recalled the “scariest part” about his situation.

“I guess the scariest part about all of this is when we got to the hospital and the doctor saying that, ‘We need to do surgery on you tonight or you ain’t going to make it,'” Gregg detailed. “I went over and prayed to God and I told Him, ‘If it’s time, let’s go.’ I don’t fear death, I don’t want to go. If my work is finished here, take care of them, let’s go.'”

He told his doctor to give his wife a letter he wrote in the event he didn’t survive.

“Writing that note was the hardest thing I ever did in my life,” he explained, tearing up. “But, you never know what’s in you until you’re at that door. I never thought I had it in me—to fight cancer. Now, I’m going to beat cancer’s ass.”

In May 2019, NeNe announced Gregg was cancer-free, writing in part, “Look at God! We are over joyed to say, we saw the doctors for the results of Gregg’s Pet Scan he took last week! Test show, wait for It…..WE ARE CANCER FREE!!!”

Hilarie Burton’s Husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan Almost Played This One Tree Hill Character

Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have been together for over a decade, but they also could’ve acted together in her hit show One Tree Hill.

Hilarie Burton could have been co-stars with her now-husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan on One Tree Hill years before they married, she recently revealed. 

The actress, who played Petyon Sawyer on the hit teen drama for six seasons, shared that she just found out about this missed opportunity.

“You know when I met Jeff, he was like, ‘Oh I auditioned for that show,'” she spilled on the Drama Queens podcast on the June 28 episode. “‘And I was like, wait, what?’ And my husband, Jeffrey, auditioned for [Craig] Sheffer‘s part.”

Sheffer played mechanic Keith Scott for the first few seasons of One Tree Hill.

“He was like, ‘Yeah, you know I liked the whole gritty garage guy’… you know that edgy thing,” Burton explained her husband said. 

“Had El Jefe shown up in those tight jeans that Jeff was wearing, yeah I would have definitely had kids earlier,” she joked. “That’s a totally different behind-the-scenes scandal.”

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Burton and Morgan have two children together: Augustus Morgan, 11, and George Virginia Morgan, 3. The married couple tied the knot in 2019, despite it being incorrectly reported that they wed in 2014.

Burton shared an Instagram post on Oct. 7, 2019 following their wedding weekend. 

She captioned the post, “I love you Jeffrey. I love our intimate group of friends and family who joined us. I love the various circles of loved ones who have supported us over the years. It was private and magical and everything I dreamed. So yeah. I’m Mrs. Morgan.”

Inside the Winning Love Story of Judge Judy and Husband Jerry Sheindlin

Save for one brief split, Judges Judy and Jerry have been holding court together for four-plus decades—including the entire 25-year run of Judge Judy. Here's why their marriage still rules.

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Let the record state that Judge Judy Sheindlin and her husband, the honorable Jerry Sheindlin, haven’t had the most perfect of marriages. But we’re going to go ahead and deliver our verdict: Anyone who makes it past their silver anniversary is a winner. 

And Judy is already well into her 44th year of marriage with Jerry, which is nearly two decades longer than she presided over her triple Daytime Emmy-winning eponymous court series Judge Judy, which is gaveling out Friday, June 25 after 12,500 episodes.

The pair just had to overcome one teeny, tiny blip that saw the two judges, perhaps ironically, facing off in court. 

Dissatisfied with Jerry’s inability to take care of her as she grieved the 1990 death of her father, Judy issued an ultimatum. “She said to me, ‘If you can’t maneuver this, I’m going to divorce you,'” he recalled to Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue in the duo’s May 2020 release, What Makes a Marriage Last. “And I said, ‘Oh, yeah? I dare you.’ And the next day I got divorce papers. The next day. So, that was the end of that.”

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It wasn’t of course, their split lasting all of a year and ending with Judy accepting this particular blindspot of her husband’s, declaring to Marlo and Phil that oftentimes you truly can’t change a man: “Like they say, don’t try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn’t work and it just annoys the pig.”

Not that Jerry, a retired New York Supreme Court justice, regularly gets a pass. In real life, Judy is every bit the exasperated, watch-tapping, meme-generating, take-no-prisoners cultural icon that she portrays onscreen, never afraid to unleash one of her patented insults or remind a defendant, “On your best day, you’re not as smart as I am on my worst day.” (Or, as Amy Poehler lovingly referred to her as she presented Judy with her lifetime achievement Emmy, “the Jewish mother we all want.”) 

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She split with her first husband, fellow prosecutor Ronald Levy, after 12 years and two kids—daughter Jamie Hartwright, born in 1966, and Adam Levy, born in 1968—because, as she put it on the Fox News show, OBJECTified, he saw her career in law “as a hobby.” Entering back into the workforce, she was a prosecutor in the New York family courts when she first cross-examined defense attorney Jerry in a bar. 

“I just finished trying a murder case as a defense lawyer,” he recalled to the Los Angeles Times years later in 1999. “There was a reporter from the New York Post there at the bar, and I was speaking to him about the case. Judy came walking in and put her finger in my face and said, ‘And who is this?’ I said, ‘Lady, get your finger out of my face.’ We’ve been together ever since.”

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Transitioning from his work on the New York Supreme Court at the time, Jerry was speaking to the paper about his new gig as arbitrator on the third season of The People’s Court—a role that his bride pushed him to consider despite it placing him as her direct competition. 

“She is the one that told me I should do it,” he assured in that 1999 interview. “If she had any reservations at all, I wouldn’t have done it.”

Not that she had allll that much to worry about considering Judge Judy began crushing its next closest competitor, Oprah Winfrey with all of her free cars and celebrity confessionals, two years after its 1996 debut. Still, Jerry cautioned to the paper, if “my show takes off and I beat her, I am contacting Hollywood immediately to remake the movie Sleeping With the Enemy.”

One could argue a ratings battle was nothing compared to what they’d already endured.

Having spent the first decade-plus of her marriage tending to Jerry’s needs while also building a legal career that had taken her from prosecutor to judge, Judy was thrown when her father (“My champion” she she put it to Thomas and Donahue) passed away in 1990. 

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In desperate need of a role reversal, “I said, ‘I’ve been taking care of you for 12 years, now it’s your turn to take care of me.’ And he was totally unaccustomed to that role,” Judy detailed of her husband in What Makes a Marriage Last. “I wasn’t asking for anything unreasonable, and he wasn’t being unreasonable saying that he really didn’t know how to do that. He was 55 and had lived a certain way all his life. He couldn’t even conceptualize taking over that role. He just couldn’t.” 

Agreed Jerry, “What she said was, ‘Unless you change, we can’t stay together.’ I said, ‘Tell me what you want me to do. You can’t just say ‘take care of me.” What does that mean? Do you want me to carry you from place to place? Do you want me to buy you things? Do you want me to feed you? Do you want me to keep you warm? What you have to do is tell me—use your words and tell me what you want me to do to take care of you.’ She said, ‘Just take care of me.’ And I said, ‘I don’t know how to do that.'”

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The stand-off led to the sort of expedited divorce that occurs when both halves of the couple are judges. Then, not long after, came the regrets. 

“I missed her presence the very first week that we were separated,” he shared. “It was the first time in years that we didn’t get to see each other every single day. It was such a strange experience.”

Equally as forlorn, she was receptive when he phoned her up after a year apart, agreeing to his request for dinner and gamely detailing one particularly unsuccessful date that had her telling an overweight suitor to rethink his dinner order. “I was so pleased having her tell me that story,” Jerry said, “because, at that moment, I knew she eventually had to come back to me.”

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Both in agreement that the previous year without each other had been rough—”I missed him,” allowed Judy—they decided to give both their romance and matrimony another shot.

“I like being married,” Judy noted of their decision to retie the knot. Ahead of their first vows in 1977, she recalled in the book, “I actually had to drag him to the altar….He had no intention of divorcing his wife, even though they had been separated for three or four years. After we were together for about a year, I said, ‘I want to see your divorce in the newspaper or don’t bother calling again.'” 

When he argued they could simply live together, Judy countered it’d be his job to inform her father. “I said, ‘I’m not going to do that,'” recalled Jerry. “So she whipped out a calendar and said, ‘Pick a date. Now.'”

This time around, though, he was the one tossing out propositions. “I picked her up from work at family court one day, and we were walking through downtown Manhattan,” Jerry shared. “Suddenly I said to her, ‘This is silly. I’m uncomfortable being with you all the time and not being married to you. Let’s get married again.’ She said, ‘Well, how are we going to do that?’ I said, ‘The clerk’s office is right up the street. We can go in and get a license…'”

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As predicted, their marriage license request was handled immediately, the standard 24-hour waiting period waived. The pieces snapping into place, she called up her best friend of 40 years to serve as maid of honor, he contacted his son, working at his downtown Manhattan law practice, to stand in as best man. And after a quick call to Jerry’s New York Supreme Court justice pal they had an officiant. 

“So we go up to Herbie’s chambers, and he performs the following ceremony,” Jerry recalled. “To me he says, ‘Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife forever—in good times and bad, in sickness and in health?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He looks at Judy and says, ‘Do you take this man to be your husband?’ She says, ‘Yes.’ He says, ‘In good times or bad?’ And she looks right at him and says, ‘In good times or forget it.'”

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In the three decades since, they haven’t had to put those vows to the test.

A 1993 Los Angeles Times profile on Judy spiraled into a spot on 60 Minutes, then her first of seven books, 1996’s Don’t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It’s Raining and finally reality TV stardom. Her net worth estimated at roughly $440 million, their life together includes multi-million dollar spreads in Beverly Hills (a five-bedroom condo her landing spot when she’s filming in L.A.), in Greenwich, Conn. (a sprawling 12.5-acre spot some 35 miles outside where they both grew up in New York City) and their home base: a massive compound in Naples, Fla., where Judy spends several mornings at the Ritz-Carlton, Jerry joining her for lunch. 

Their five kids—Jamie and Adam from her first marriage; Gregory Sheindlin, 57, Jonathan Sheindlin, 54, and Nicole Sheindlin, 53, from his—have given them 13 grandchildren, at least four of whom are interested in the family business.

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And having long eschewed retirement (“I’m not tired. I don’t play golf or tennis. I have no desire to learn how to play mahjong, chess or checkers. I know what I like to do”), Judy shows no signs of laying down her gavel.

She expanded her television empire in 2014 to include Hot Bench, now the third-highest-rated syndicated show on daytime behind Dr. Phil and, well, Judge Judy, which she’s really only ending to make room for her latest venture, Judy Justice. Plus, as she put it to The Hollywood Reporter recently, “I like to see things tied up in a bow,” and 25 years just sounds better than, say, 27. 

As for their union, though Jerry didn’t magically transform himself into a doting caregiver during their year apart, “He did learn to use a calendar better,” she remarked to Marlo. “He learned to write down: ‘October 21, Judy’s birthday. Buy present, card.'” 

In 2019, to mark her 77th, he got her exactly what she wanted—more or less. “I said, ‘I’d like a new Aston Martin,'” she detailed to the TMZ cameras waiting outside her Beverly Hills apartment. “And he said, ‘What’s your second choice?’ So I got a bathrobe!” In Jerry’s defense, he cut in, “It was from Aston Martin!”

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That she finds the whole situation impossibly charming is evidence that you can learn quite a bit across four-plus decades of marriage. 

“I believe that men’s brains and women’s brains are different,” she explained in What Makes a Marriage Last. “Women will accommodate men from the beginning, and after they get married, they say, ‘All right, you start accommodating me. You start changing.’ I remember when one of our kids was getting married, she complained to me that her fiancé cleaned the bathroom with a sponge, then tried to clean the kitchen with the same sponge. She told me, ‘I don’t know if I can deal with this.’ And I said, ‘Sweetheart, this is as good as it gets. The truth is, you’re not going to be able to modify that behavior, and if you’re not prepared to live with that, then don’t do it. Otherwise, buy a dozen sponges.’ And they’re still married, almost 25 years.”

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In other words, that conventional wisdom about choosing your battles holds strong. Though Jerry would throw in an addendum that you also need to be certain you’ve found the person you’d like to fight alongside.

“The truth of the matter is: No matter how you slice it—no matter how many sponges you buy—it’s all irrelevant unless there’s a special feeling when you speak to her, when you hug her and tell her you can’t do without her,” he added. “If you love your mate, it all works out.”

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Which is something Judy has known at her core since the day she spotted Jerry at that New York bar.

Asked the advice she’d give any young couple standing before her bench, she informed Marlo, “I’d tell them they had to have that intangible feeling of looking across the room and saying, ‘I’ve got to have me one of those.’ My father once told me that the first time he saw my mother was at a dance at the Jewish center when she was just 18. She was so pretty. My father was with his best friend, and he looked at him and said, ‘You see that pretty girl over there? I’m going to knock that halo off of her head.’ And he did. But he loved her from the first minute he looked at her. He saw her and he said, ‘I’ve got to have it.’ That’s how I felt when I saw Jerry. I said, ‘I have to have that forever.'”

(This story was originally published on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020 at 8 a.m. PT.)

Julia Roberts' Husband Danny Moder Shares Rare Video of Son Henry on His Birthday

Julia Roberts and Danny Moder's son Henry turned 14 years old last week, and the cinematographer celebrated by posting a video of the teen skateboarding to Instagram.

Kids, they grow up so fast—you take your eyes off them for just a few years and suddenly they’re teens.

Last week, Julia Roberts and Danny Moder‘s youngest son Henry turned 14 years old, and the proud father celebrated the major milestone by posting a rare video of the teenager to Instagram.  

“Turning 14…. turning in the air…summers turn,” he wrote alongside a clip of Henry skateboarding on June 18. “Ya Henry.”

Roberts and Moder, who celebrated 18 years of marriage last July, are also parents to twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 16. And while they may be an Oscar-winning actress and Emmy-nominated cinematographer to the rest of the world, at home, they’re Mom and Dad: They make breakfast, drive their kids to school and provide the orange slices for soccer games.

“I don’t think they will ever have a true sense of that,” Roberts told Oprah Winfrey in a 2018 Harper’s Bazaar profile after the media mogul asked if her kids had realized she’s one of the world’s biggest stars. “I think I told you once when they were starting to figure it out, it was like, ‘You’re famous?’ And I said, ‘I think a lot of people might have seen the movie that I’m in or might know who I am.’ Maybe an hour goes by. ‘Are you more famous than Taylor Swift?'”

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Pink's Husband Carey Hart Hopes This Helps Change His “Tattooed Scumbag” Image

In Pink’s new documentary, husband Carey Hart reveals he’s shown a different side of himself than what fans are used to seeing. Scroll on to see what the competitive racer had to say.

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Carey Hart is showing the true size of his heart in his wife Pink‘s new documentary.
 
During an appearance on the June 7th episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the professional motocross racer revealed that he was more than happy to show the world his fatherly side in Pink’s new Amazon Prime documentary, All I Know So Far.
 
“I’m kinda glad I got to show a little bit of my vulnerable side like being a father,” he shared with host Ellen DeGeneres. “As opposed to—you know—I’m perceived as this wild, crazy, motorcycle, tattooed scumbag so it’s kinda nice for people to see my softer side.”
 
The competitive star—who shares 10-year-old daughter Willow Sage and 4-year-old son Jameson Moon with his wife of 15 years—also revealed that once Pink reminded him that she technically forgot to ask if he truly wanted to appear in the film, he had to get her back somehow.

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“Actually, the next morning after she had that conversation with me, we were out playing tennis,” he continued. “And I was like, ‘You know what? I thought about what you told me last night and I actually want you to kinda cut out my whole interview part, so if you could make that happen before the thing goes live tomorrow night, I’d appreciate that.'”

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Although Carey revealed that he was just teasing his wife, he does reiterate how grateful he is for the chance to showing the joys of fatherhood, saying, “No, I was actually glad that I got to show my softer side.”
 
His other half also echoed the same sentiment to Ellen back in May when she discussed his appearance within the film. “He’s a good man,” Pink shared. “He’s a good dad, those kids adore him. We have a lot of fun, but it’s [the movie] an extension to that.”

The couple, who tied the knot in 2006, have been together for an impressive 18 years and their adorable family has been one to watch, especially with the latest heartwarming moment taking place between Pink and Willow during her recent performance on stage.
 
To see what else Carey had to say, including information behind his charity, watch the interview above!

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