Exiled NBA ex-first round pick Jaden Ivey’s wife, Caitlyn, disputed her husband’s “lie” that she is not talking to him during the fallout from his shocking Bulls release Monday after he made anti-LGBTQ and anti-Catholicism comments the franchise deemed “conduct detrimental to the team.”
Caitlyn offered her retort Wednesday on her Instagram Story a screenshot featuring the couple and their three children headlined with “She only wanted you because you were in the NBA.”
“We were communicating all morning of that day,” Caitlyn said in response to her husband’s claim on a March 31 livestream that “she not even texting me.”
“People say things for attention, do not be deceived.”
Caitlyn also shared hateful messages she’s allegedly received from fans after Jaden’s comments, ranging from “your life a f–king lie” to “you’re a s–t wife.”
“These DM’s (and many more) over one lie spoke on my name,” she wrote on her Story.
“If you know me you know I have never abandoned that man through all the trials.. and I still haven’t now. There is obviously a lot more going on, so leave your conspiracies and guesses to yourselves.”
Jaden and Caitlyn both attended Purdue and got engaged in 2022, and it’s unclear when they tied the knot. They share three sons: 3-year-old Noah, 2-year-old Shiloh and 1-year-old Isaiah.
Their worlds got flipped upside down over the past week after Jaden went on several religious rants, notably calling out the NBA for supporting Pride Month and labeling Catholicism a “false religion.”
“The world can proclaim LGBTQ, right?” Jaden said during a lengthy video he posted to Instagram recently. “They proclaim Pride Month and the NBA. They proclaim it. They show it to the world. They say, ‘come join us for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness.’ They proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards. They proclaim it in the streets. Unrighteousness. So how is it that one can’t speak righteousness? How are they to say that this man is crazy?”
The Bulls, who acquired Jaden from the Pistons earlier this year, waived the former No. 5 pick, and he responded by calling them “liars.”
In the aftermath of his release, Jaden brought his wife into the mix by claiming she was watching him on a live stream while ignoring him otherwise.
“Those who are around me, those who are my family members betraying because of what I spoke. The truth. Betraying me. Saying that I’m losing my mind. Saying that I’m crazy. These are my own family members, my blood. ‘Man, he’s psycho. He’s this, he’s that.’ Those are my own household,” Jaden said.
“That’s why my wife in here, and she not even texting me.”
As Caitlyn has refuted Jaden’s claim, he has continued to post selfie videos to Instagram with religious undertones, including an appearance on the “PinPoint Podcast.”
He told the podcast that the injuries he’s battled during his career led to him contemplating suicide, but he relied on his faith, according to US Magazine.
“I’ve almost committed suicide multiple times,” he said, per the outlet. “And I’m not ashamed to say it. I’m not ashamed because God was merciful to keep me here. I had (oxycodone) pills in my hand. And my wife was telling me, ‘Don’t do this. Don’t go down this road.’”
“I get surgery, I’m rehabbing, right? And I’m under this false doctrine of once saved, always saved. That you’re righteous, but it doesn’t matter if you sin, it can’t touch your soul…And so I still had no peace, and I went back and … during that time, I had my two children, and I was back in the world, back in the world again, trying to figure out what, what, what is the truth?”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
