If you host a morning show with an audience interested in ish like this, Mary Harvey is apparently still available for interviews. Despite saying she was done speaking about this, the ex-Mrs. Steve Harvey called into Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club” to drop even more details about what really pissed off Steve, talking to her son Wynton and older son, and whether or not Steve Harvey used to wear a lacefront. Get the deets inside..
Mary Harvey continues her talk show tour promoting what she says is the “real” Steve Harvey. With even more details, she called into “The Breakfast Club” to explain why she was silent for so long and what events caused her to break her silence.
On why she is breaking her silence:
“Essence Magazine was the breaking point. There was an article in January 2011. Essence Magazine and Steve Harvey brought me into this. What I refuse to do is let Essence and Steve Harvey muddy my name. They are supposed to represent the empowerment of women.”
“What they could have done was say, ‘Steve we’ll do this article but we don’t think it’s necessary to bring Mary into this.’ After all, he is married to Marjorie. He says she saved him. She spiritually resurrected him. And my thing is…why don’t you get into that? You are coming up on four years of marriage…why are you still discussing Mary and all the pain she caused. And if he was in all this pain, why didn’t he divorce me? Why didn’t he leave me for her?”
On Steve using their old marriage promote his books and “newly spiritual” image:
She says she gets reports from family and friends, who listen to his show, about the subliminal shots he often sends her way. “Get off my back. He’s got 60 markets. I don’t know where he finds it in his schedule to address me at any point. If I had been blessed the way he’s been blessed after he did what he did to me, I’d be worried about paying that tab back to God. I seriously wouldn’t want to pick that check up in a spiritual way.
He is trying to promote these books off the back of ‘Look at what Mary did to me….poor Steve. And look at how this woman (Marjorie) saved me and brought me back to God. So buy my book!’ It’s all a platform…that’s all it ever was.”
On what Steve is REALLY angry about:
Mary says Steve is upset that she reached out to Oprah via telephone after Steve began making appearances on her talk show. Once Mary began to reveal her side of the story to Oprah, Ms. Winfrey and the OWN Network (who had offered him a talk show) began to distance themselves from the comedian. That didn’t go over well with the Harvey team.
On talking to her son(s):
She says Steve was also the stepfather to her first child, who was 4-years-old when they got together. Her firstborn is now 26 and has been disowned by Steve because he wouldn’t get with the program and back Steve in his lies. Also, she has recently spoken to her son Wynton over the phone. She still feels like Steve has purposely driven a wedge between them and when he does call her, his calls are monitored by someone in Steve’s camp.
On her former personal assistant Jocelyn:
She actually confirmed much of what we previously posted. She says she was irrational and unpredictable but it was because of the stress that Steve’s team put her under. She mentions that she was a good employer and even gave Jocelyn paid maternity leave, although she had only worked for her for a few months. She also says she sold Jocelyn a $275,000 home for $2 during the time of her employment because she and Steve didn’t need the property.
In her opinion, Jocelyn is speaking out because she is being paid under the table by Steve. Mary says they had a confidentiality agreement and she can’t understand why Jocelyn wants to throw her under the bus.
On Steve possibly wearing a lacefront wig:
When the morning hosts asked about Steve’s hairline….or lack thereof, she began to laugh before exiting the interview saying, “Oh well look at the time (laughing)…I have to go and finish my breakfast.”
Whew…I know people have been throwing her shade for speaking out. But I have to say, the more I listen to her, she gets more and more “believable” with each interview. Sue me for believing what actually goes down quite often in the real AND celebrity world. Almost ready for my TEAM MARY shirt. I said ALMOST….
