Basketball Wives’ Royce Reed Says She’s No Gold Digger

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Basketball Wives’ Royce Reed Says She’s No Gold Digger

Posted at 05/04/2010 by Staff 1 Comment

Royce Reed a.k.a. Dwight Howard’s Baby Mama talked to VIBE Magazine about life on the set of VH1′s “Basketball Wives.”
The reality show created by Shaunie O’Neal (Shaq’s ex), features a handful of current and past girlfriends (and wives) of NBA athletes. These women regularly hunt and confront groupies they say are after their men.

Royce talked to Vibe about being called a gold digger and she addressed one particular episode when one of the other wives threw a drink at a groupie and:

“It takes a lot for me to go off but if you really cross me you will feel my wrath so that’s going play out. But I’m not involved in the drink throwing,” says Reed of the forthcoming episode that involves boxing gloves. “I don’t throw drinks. I take it back to the old school and handle it like you’re supposed to handle it. If you think you’re that big and bad, then be that big and bad.”

Reed is also still fighting metaphorically to shake people’s negative perceptions about her, but the person who’s opinion matters most is that of her son whose father isn’t mentioned on the show because of an injunction she signed willingly.

“I wasn’t forced to sign anything contrary to popular belief. I want people to realize that I’m not the groupie or the gold digger. He approached me,” says Reed of Howard. “I definitely don’t fill that stereotype of a woman that sits on her behind all day and has babies and her life is set, and I don’t want Braylon to think that I do that. I actually have a job and I want him to be proud of me. I want him and my family to realize that even though when I had him I wasn’t married, I’m not going to sit and do nothing for 18 years.

“I’m going to pursue that career, I’m going to have that job because I want him to be proud of that and I want to be proud of myself,” Reed continues. “I’m still going to be a free spirit. I probably won’t be dancing everywhere and dropping it like it’s hot. But I’m just Royce and this is who I am everyday. You live and you learn and you can’t fight everybody. Someone’s always going to have something to say. They talk about Jesus so what makes you think they won’t talk about you.”