00:00As we head into the holidays, we need to hear what people are talking about
00:04while sipping on their eggnog.
00:06That's why we couldn't wait to get the juicy scoop.
00:09Time to hear what's happening in the world of social media.
00:11This is The Social Feed with Essence.
00:14Woo!
00:16Hey!
00:17And you know what, today joining us in person, finally,
00:20is Essence Magazine's director of social media, Charisma Daberry.
00:24Hey, Charisma, welcome back.
00:25Hey, Charisma.
00:27Nice to have you in the studio.
00:28I'm so happy to be here with all of you.
00:30I'm so happy to have you.
00:31Can we just jump right in because I really wanna know,
00:34what is happening with Tristan Thompson?
00:36What is the tea?
00:37Okay, so third trimester Tristan Thompson, as Twitter has dubbed him,
00:42because he seems to always act a fool when women are pregnant with his child.
00:47And this apparently is his third go-around.
00:50A woman named Marilee Nichols is alleging that she just had his baby
00:55and she's suing him for paternity and also child support.
00:58Now, that is not even the tea.
01:01Apparently, legal documents show that he threatened her and offered her $75,000 to either not have the baby at all or to keep the child a secret.
01:14Wow. Yeah, yeah. And Marilee is saying that this entire relationship that they had went on while he was with Khloe, which is so incredibly unfortunate.
01:23Oh, so she keeps taking him back. So, have you heard anything from Khloe?
01:26Yes. She says, according to people, that she is so sad and that she thought he would change.
01:32And my heart goes out to her because I'm gonna spill my own tea.
01:35I was in a relationship with someone who had a baby with someone else during our relationship.
01:40Wow. And it was devastating.
01:41Heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking.
01:43So, my heart really goes out to her because those serial cheaters, awful.
01:48And you know what I like about her fans is that they're not going after the girl, they're going after him.
01:54They're saying it's time for him to just stop. He's just not the one for her.
02:00So, I feel refreshed by that because, you know, a lot of times they go after the woman, but it's him.
02:06They're going after Trish.
02:07Stop torturing her.
02:08Yes. Stop torturing her.
02:10You don't want to do right. You don't want to do the right thing.
02:12And what it appears like is his character is really poor that he would even make that offer to the woman in the first place.
02:18Exactly.
02:18And threaten to never be involved in the child's life, even if she does have the baby.
02:22That's bad. That's bad.
02:24Okay, Charisma, we've been seeing a lot of dating rumors as well with a few celebs.
02:29So, what's the scoop on them?
02:30Yes. So, according to Essence.com, hey, y'all, Erykah Badu has just revealed a new love in her life.
02:39Yes, yes, yes. His name is Jerron The Secret.
02:42And we're just finding out about him, so it's it.
02:44Oh, he was a secret.
02:45Yes, he was definitely a secret.
02:47And she posted on Instagram that he is her guy. She referred to him as my guy.
02:53My guy, which is so sweet, because she is putting her stamp on that thing, and she is saying she posted a whole thread of pictures of them on all these different places.
03:02So, it appears they've been together for a while.
03:04Ooh!
03:05So, listen, there was one picture where they were sporting matching untraditional rings on this finger, the important finger.
03:11Oh!
03:12So, people are speculating that they're either engaged or maybe a secret ceremony has gone down.
03:17Wow.
03:18What do you think about a May-December romance? He's 27, she's 50.
03:21Oh, I ain't got nothing wrong with that. Mm-mm. Nothing at all. So, let's move on.
03:25What's all the drama we're hearing about Lil Wayne and his bodyguard? Now, that's drama.
03:31Yes. So, Lil Wayne, allegedly, let's sprinkle some allegedly's, everybody, sprinkle allegedly all over this story.
03:38Um, his bodyguard is alleging that he pulled out an assault rifle after the two got into a physical altercation at his Hollywood Hills mansion.
03:46Oh.
03:46Now, they're not saying why they got into an altercation, but it escalated, and the bodyguard went to the police with this story saying Lil Wayne pulled out an assault rifle to force him out of his mansion.
03:59And allegedly, according to TMZ, he, the bodyguard went to the bathroom, because Lil Wayne told him to leave,
04:07but he had to make a pit stop first, and I think that kind of made Lil Wayne mad, and he went and got a gun.
04:13Now, the thing is, Lil Wayne is what? A felon, because remember...
04:17Oh, that's right.
04:18...Trump pardoned him, so he's not supposed to have no weapons at all around him.
04:24Tag your neighbor and say allegedly.
04:25Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly.
04:28Yes. And Lil Wayne, he is saying, though, that this did not happen. Let's just put that out there.
04:32Exactly. He's saying none of this happened, the bodyguard is saying it.
04:35Right. So, you know, so what do you think is going to happen?
04:38I mean, I think there's going to be an investigation, and somebody might get a check, and this might go away, or somebody's going to jail.
04:45Mm. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
04:47Okay, can we talk about... Okay, we love a great story, but when it comes to giving back, especially during the holidays,
04:53I want to know, has Santa come early for some?
04:57Yeah, Santa has come early for some, and a lot of celebs are giving back in beautiful ways.
05:01I love that.
05:02But I love this story about Robin Williams, because we know that he passed away in 2014.
05:06Yeah.
05:06But a lot of his good deeds are just coming out, so people are saying that he gave $50,000 to a food bank in Seattle in 2008, and he never spoke about it.
05:20So he never wanted people to know all of the good things that he was doing in his community in Seattle, but he was.
05:27And this is just coming out over seven years later.
05:29I love that.
05:30Yeah.
05:30That he didn't want attention for that, and he just did it.
05:33That's really inspiring.
05:35Yeah, and it just goes to show you that celebs are good people, too.
05:38Yeah, I mean, Garcia went to the mission before Thanksgiving.
05:43Yes, I did, you did as well.
05:45I went to Project Angel Food during Thanksgiving, and Munchkin is always giving away, you know, food and helping, and you know what I mean?
05:53It's time to do that.
05:54Exactly, because we have to use our platforms.
05:56We really do.
05:56We should use our platforms for good, so I'm glad to see that, you know, Mr. Williams, all the stuff that he's doing is gonna come out.
06:02Yeah.
06:02There's gonna be even more stuff, probably, about him.
06:04Yeah, I would agree.
06:05I mean, by all accounts, he was just a phenomenal human being.
06:08He was.
06:08Yes, he was.
06:09Oh, wow.
06:10Charisma, thank you so much for stopping by and giving us a scoop on everything that's happening on our social feeds.
06:15For more on the latest celebrity news and all things social, be sure to head on over to Essence.com to get all the deeds.
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