This week Dwyane Wade lashed out at his ex-wife, Siovaugh Funches Wade, after she filed to legally block their youngest child from changing their name and gender on their birth certificate [click here if you missed that].
Siovaughn stands her ground...
Siohvaughn Funches-Wade tells Page Six in a lenghty statement Friday that “countless full-grown famous adults” have suffered “severe consequences” from anxiety and depression — including taking their own lives — as a result of “public pressure and scrutiny.”
“I have both the mandate and privilege of protecting my children from these tragic events, well as the myriad of other negative things that have a tendency to impact those living in the limelight, but time will fail me to mention them all,” the author, 41, adds.
Funches-Wade points out that she believes God has called on her to “protect” her children.
“I’m by no means a perfect parent but I love my children with perfect unconditional love,” the mother of two says. “I will also continue to do what the laws of this land allow me to do as a parent with the parental right and power under the constitution in courts of law and not the court of public opinion.”
Wade-Funches tells us her ex-husband’s “derogatory” claims are “completely untrue” and “very hurtful” not only to her but also to their kids.
“I will not add to that pain by now responding publicly with malicious, or hate-filled, comments to Dwyane, despite his decision to say these harmful untruths about me, and despite the fact that I never went to the media or public about these sensitive private family matters affecting our minor child.”
Funches-Wade concludes by saying she will not speak “negatively” of her former spouse for their “babies’ sake,” adding, “If I had anything at all publicly to say to him it would only be one thing, ‘I forgive him again.'”
