Jeannie Mai All Smiles With Daughter as Custody Battle With Jeezy Takes a Turn
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Jeannie Mai, living her best life
00:06 with her daughter Monaco in Boston
00:08 as her custody battle with ex Jeezy takes a turn.
00:11 - I'm taking it day by day.
00:13 Right now I'm just focusing on Monaco,
00:14 I'm focusing on things that I'm passionate about.
00:16 - The TV personality is doing just that,
00:19 bringing the two year old on a work trip to Beantown,
00:22 enjoying time at the park, eating ice cream,
00:24 and posing for pics.
00:25 The mommy daughter duo also sharing
00:27 this lady in the tramp moment eating a spaghetti noodle.
00:31 (baby cooing)
00:35 Jeannie writes in the caption,
00:42 "So happy to be back in Boston shooting season two
00:45 "of the best cooking competition show ever."
00:48 And can't help but remember Lil' Coco being only
00:50 six months old when I first brought her here on my lap.
00:53 And now she gets her own seat, the expensive Lil'.
00:57 - I mean, shoot, when you're surrounded by people
00:58 you just get to laugh and, you know,
01:00 look at the things that you enjoy doing in life.
01:02 Then, you know, you get through it.
01:04 - That's Jeannie in October chatting to ET
01:06 about how she's healing amid her divorce
01:08 from Monaco's dad, Jeezy.
01:10 The rapper filed for divorce in September
01:11 after two years of marriage.
01:13 A source telling ET at the time,
01:15 "Things haven't been great between them,
01:17 "but Jeannie was very surprised by his move."
01:20 - We all know what we want.
01:21 We wanna feel trusted, we wanna feel loved,
01:23 we wanna feel safe.
01:24 - And now the custody battle over Monaco
01:26 is getting tumultuous, as Jeezy responds
01:29 to the domestic abuse claims Jeannie made
01:31 in her recent court filing.
01:33 In a statement to ET, he says the allegations
01:35 are not only false, but also deeply disturbing,
01:38 especially coming from someone I loved.
01:41 "This malicious attempt to tarnish my character
01:43 "and disrupt my family is ridiculous."
01:46 Jeezy says his main concern is being an active father
01:49 to Monaco, and he'll continue to fight
01:52 for court-mandated joint custody.
01:54 - I was going through things,
01:57 and marriage ended in divorce,
02:00 and it was kinda hard, so yeah,
02:03 it's what I'm dealing with day by day.
02:05 - In December, Jeannie opened up
02:07 on The Jennifer Hudson Show about how she was doing
02:09 amid their split.
02:11 - I think I'm doing better now, you know?
02:12 I think at the time when I found out,
02:17 you know, at the same time as the rest of the world,
02:18 that my marriage was ending in divorce, I was gutted.
02:22 - And despite the struggles,
02:23 she says she'll continue putting all her focus
02:25 on her baby girl.
02:27 - Today it's about picking up the pieces,
02:29 it's about discovering me,
02:31 and being a mom to the best blessing in my life,
02:35 my little girl.
02:36 (audience cheers)
02:37 Even though this year I met the most broken version of me,
02:41 I also met the strongest version of me.
02:44 She's just my whole world.
02:45 I think, you know, we're present and we're alive right now,
02:50 but I think every parent can tell you
02:52 that when you have a baby,
02:54 you get a chance to be born again.
02:56 (electronic music)
02:59 (bells chiming)
03:02 [BLANK_AUDIO]