Ciara has done some amazing things in her professional life.
Her first album went to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 when she was just 18 years old.
She’s received multiple Grammy nominations, and she took one home for her song Lose Control.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, she has a net worth of $20 million.
Ciara’s Relationship With Future
But Ciara hasn’t always been as lucky in her personal life.
In 2012, she got into a relationship that would end up changing her life forever.
Her romance with rapper Future was short-lived, and it reportedly ended in a lot of pain for her.
The pair got engaged in 2013, and a year later, they had a baby together named Future Zahir.
But just months after he was born, the brand new parents broke up.
Since they shared a son together, Ciara and Future were forced to stay in each other’s lives, which is something that Ciara has suggested has caused her a ton of problems over the years.
Their issues reportedly started after Ciara gave birth.
Ciara’s Candid Confession
Fox News reported that on an episode of Red Table Talk, Ciara opened up about how miserable she was toward the end of the relationship.
She confessed that she’d have moments when she would be crying in the shower, crying in the bedroom, and overall crying because she was not in the happiest place.
She was hurt by what she was going through.
In an episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, Ciara got candid about the moment that she realized that things with Future were over.
She said: “You know it from the head to your feet, from your feet to your head.”
She went on to explain that it was sometimes important to look in the mirror and reflect, and to ask if there were things that she could be doing differently in her life.
Then she finished by adding that there was nothing fun about being confused all the time or having someone taking her on the run-around.
Why Did Ciara And Future End Their Engagement?
When speaking with Huffington Post Live, Future claimed that HE was the one to end the engagement because he claimed that they’d just grown apart.
However, Ciara made it known that she didn’t agree with his statement.
Not long after the article came out, she took to Twitter to defend her reputation.
She wrote: “Some person is so dishonest and ignorant that they don’t deserve a response.”
Though Ciara never went into the details about why they broke up, there was a story circulating that suggested that it had something to do with betrayal.
US Weekly reported that Future allegedly cheated on his then-fiance with his stylist Tyrina Lee.
One of the outlet’s sources alleged that Ciara found out about the affair through multiple sources.
The couple didn’t have to go through the pain of getting divorced.
Ciara And Future’s Legal Battle
But unfortunately, Ciara did have to go through an uphill legal battle when it came to who would get custody of their son.
Future Zahir was Ciara’s first child, but her ex already had a bunch of other kids.
Hot New Hip Hop revealed that Future has 7 other kids with 7 other women, and he allegedly doesn’t have great relationships with quite a few of those baby mamas either.
According to documents that the Daily Mail saw, the feud between them got seriously vicious.
Leaked emails from their lawyers revealed that they were accusing each other of all kinds of nasty things like lying, failing to take substance tests, and using too much foul language.
Future Calls Out Ciara
But it wasn’t just the press that was sharing information about how ugly things had gotten between them.
Future seemed to have no shame in sharing some of the drama that was going on behind closed doors.
He took to his Twitter to let everyone know his personal thoughts on his ex.
He said that he hated that he had to go through his lawyers to see his son.
He explained that he found it ridiculous, considering that he was supposedly paying fifteen thousand dollars a month.
Then he made the claim that Ciara had control problems.
However, an insider for PEOPLE alleged that his accusations weren’t true, and he was just using the media’s attention on him to promote his music.
The source said that he did not nor had he ever paid $15,000 in child support, and Ciara had never stopped him from seeing his child.
How Ciara Turned A Negative Into A Positive
When talking to Women’s Health, Ciara got real about how breaking up with her son’s father had a big positive to it.
It really helped her to start prioritizing her own well-being more.
After the split, she told herself that she had to figure out how to navigate the next chapter of her life.
All the things that she was aspiring to have at the time, including love, made her realize that it was going to happen when it was supposed to.
Later in the interview, she revealed that she knew that she couldn’t love anybody to the best of her ability if she wasn’t loving herself.
Ciara’s Relationship With Russell Wilson
In 2015, Ciara’s life changed for the better when she met someone new.
She fell in love with NFL quarterback Russell Wilson.
Their relationship moved pretty quickly, and in March 2016, they got engaged.
A few months later, they were married.
Since then, the couple have welcomed three children of their own together.
How Future Made It Difficult For Ciara’s Relationship With Russell
But as happy as Ciara has said that she is these days, there’s reportedly always been a shadow in the background.
Because according to reports, Future made things difficult for her at every step of her relationship with her new man.
It was pretty clear from the start that he seriously disliked Russell, and he supposedly hated that his son got to spend so much time with him.
An article by the Daily Mail reported on a story that showed just how bad things got for Ciara in 2016.
Why Ciara Filed A Lawsuit Against Future
That was the year when she filed a defamation lawsuit claiming that Future’s reaction to her new relationship had caused her emotional distress, humiliation, stress, anger, and suffering.
TMZ reported that Ciara was also making the allegation that her ex had repeatedly threatened Russell.
As an example, she shared a social media post where Future shared some weapon emojis facing some football emojis.
She also described his behavior as frightening and socially irresponsible.
Future Filed Lawsuit Against Ciara And Throws Shade
But Future didn’t just sit back and take it.
Instead, he filed a countersuit against Ciara and threw some major shade at her.
His opinion was that his comments couldn’t hurt Ciara’s reputation because her career was already in a pretty bad place.
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Some people thought that this was a diss about how poorly her 2015 LP performed, which his legal team described as a flop.
Nothing really came of the lawsuits in the end, but the relationship between Ciara and her ex reportedly hasn’t improved that much.
Future Disses Russell Wilson
In 2023, Future took another jab at Ciara’s husband when he rapped on a verse of Quavo’s song Turn Yo Clic Up, per Vulture.
However, Russell has reportedly found his own little ways to get back at his wife’s former fiance.
Atlanta Black Star claimed that he recently posted a photo of him and Future Zahir walking side by side on a football field.
In the caption, he mentioned that he would counsel him with his loving eye on him, which some people thought was a dig at the boy’s biological dad.
Ciara Responds To How Coparenting With Future Is Going
But what is Future’s relationship with his son like? And how has it been co-parenting with his ex?
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In an interview with The Shade Room, Ciara gave a hint at how she thought their co-parenting was going.
When the host Thembi Mawema brought up the topic, Ciara actually started to laugh for 15 seconds straight.
After she was done, Thembi summed up her outburst by saying: “I guess that says it all.”
But Ciara has been making the most of her new life with Russell and their kids.
Are Ciara And Russell Wilson Expecting Twins?
There are even rumors that the pair might be expecting another child, according to the Atlanta Black Star.
Ciara shared a photo dump of a recent trip to Saudi Arabia.
And her Instagram followers couldn’t resist pointing out that she was wearing loose clothing in all the photos she shared.
One online user commented that they thought that Ciara was pregnant again, but this time with twins, and they joked that Russell needed to get off her.
Another person wrote that Russell was building his own team.
Somebody else chimed in and said that Future had dropped 3 albums this year, so Russell said that they needed 3 new babies.
However, only time will tell if Ciara is truly pregnant again or not.
