Yesterday we reported on the story that Keshia Knight Pulliam, 38, who played the youngest daughter, Rudy, on The Cosby Show, had been blindsided by divorce papers from her husband of seven months, former NFL linebacker Ed Hartwell. What makes this story notable is the fact that Keshia just announced that she’s pregnant and that Ed issued a statement questioning the paternity of the baby, claiming that he told her that he didn’t want to have a child now, and stating that “The pregnancy came during a very dark spot in their relationship.” It sounded extremely vindictive and low, and like Ed was a controlling ass.

Now Keshia is telling her side of the story. In a new interview with ET, she said that this is definitely Ed’s daughter (she knows she’s expecting a girl) and that Ed was the one who cheated on her. She was ready to divorce him and had papers drawn up but he begged her to stay. Keshia was genuinely distraught and broke down crying while telling her story. You can watch the video on ET and here’s some of what she said.

“It’s hurtful. And I knew I couldn’t be silent, because this isn’t about money. This isn’t about fame. This isn’t about social media likes or follows. This is about my character — my integrity as a woman being attacked — and that’s not OK.”

Pulliam says she was given no warning and was blindsided when Hartwell, 38, told her he had filed for divorce. The Cosby Show star says she has never cheated on Hartwell, but alleges that he had been unfaithful during their marriage — and that she was actually the one who wanted to get a divorce before deciding to give him another chance.

“When early in my marriage I was faced with this, I was ready to leave. I had divorce papers ready. I presented them to him. He said ‘please, I want my family.’ He said all the right things. Once I was pregnant I decided to forgive him and give him that one last chance.”

“The part that hurt me the most when he filed for divorce was that he had asked me to give him another chance, and I was willing to do that and forgive him, for our family,” she claims.

Pulliam says that having children was always a plan for the both of them. The former linebacker is already a father to his 9-year-old son, Ed Jr., with his ex-wife, Real Housewives of Atlanta star Lisa Wu.

“We both wanted to get married, I was not pushing it,” she says of their New Year’s Eve wedding. ” … This is his baby. He wanted more children. He was excited once he found out that we were having a little girl. There was never a question about that. … No point after we got pregnant was there an issue of the fact that we’re having a baby.”

Pulliam now has “no desire” to still be married to Hartwell, but instead, wants to focus on their child.

“There’s a baby in the middle of this!” she stresses. “And regardless, if we don’t want to be married, that’s fine, because we agree on that. But this baby is what’s important, and I feel like that’s being lost.”

[From ET]

Well this puts this douchebag’s statements in an entirely new light. He cheated on his wife, filed for divorce right after she announced her pregnancy and didn’t have the decency to give her a heads up first. Keshia said that the day Ed filed for divorce he “left like any other day” and even said goodbye. Then he broke up with her by text, filed for divorce and told the press that she trapped him with a baby, essentially. Keshia said that she’s going to do this one interview and then be done with this story, and with Ed. She wants to focus on her daughter and said that “what I need to [do is] to release the hurt, to release this, and to be happy for me and my baby girl, because the stress isn’t good.” Keshia is well rid of him and I hope that she has friends and family around her at this time. She comes across as a resilient person, and she sounds like she’s going to be a very good mom.

Tune in tonight to @entertainmenttonight as I share my truth… “Never Let Anyone Steal Your Joy”.

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