Okay, so let’s talk about former NFL star and now podcast host Cam Newton, because he just dropped a bombshell during his chat with Bishop T.D. Jakes. Apparently, Cam puts his nearest and dearest – that’s family, friends, and even the women he dates – through a series of “tests.” He wants to see if they’ll truly fight for him, “for better or for worse.”
This revealing conversation went down on the January 5 episode of Jakes’ ‘NXT Chapter Podcast.’ The 36-year-old opened up about everything from relationships and marriage to fatherhood and finding inner peace. Bishop Jakes cut right to the chase, asking Cam Newton, “You’ve always had an audience. When all the audiences are gone and it’s just you, what’s going on in here?” That’s a deep question for anyone, especially someone who’s lived in the spotlight.
As a PK (preacher’s kid), Newton referenced the bible in his answer, explaining:
“I’m at peace the most. But, there’s a lot of me that asked the question, ‘Are you gonna fight for me?’ Because when I was vulnerable to the Individuals—that’s family, that’s friends, that’s partners — ‘Are you gonna fight for me?’ That’s what I’m most scared of.
Because everybody in love. Everybody want to walk down [the aisle]. Everybody wanna—everybody want to do all the festive marital stuff that the bible don’t even say. And I when I call it out I’m like, ‘Yo, the bible ain’t never mentioned no honeymoon. The bible ain’t never mentioned the ring. The bible ain’t never mentioned spending millions and thousands of dollars on a marriage celebration. The bible didn’t say a lot of these things, but if we’re going off of the bible’s accord, there’s a lot of worldly things that have crept into it.
So, now for me above all, going back to the most impactful vow, for me, I want to know without a shadow of a doubt, for better or for worse…”
Cam Newton Explains Why He Puts The Women He Dates Through ‘Tests’
Newton continued, emphasizing that he doesn’t want people just walking with him for their own benefit. He even described telling people to “get the hell away” when he’s hurt. Jakes jumped in, suggesting he means, “‘Come get me.'” But Newton explained it’s a “character” test, not toxic, despite what some might say.
Jakes then hit it on the head, calling it a “test” and saying, “‘Will you come get me?’ It’s really a test because your definition of love is proven by the other person coming to get you and that way you don’t have to worry about abandonment.” Newton, clearly feeling understood, responded with a resounding, “Checkmate.”
He further elaborated on his reasoning:
“I’ll take you through these courses just to see—this is the only way I can find out. I mean you call it how I see it, man. My father ain’t raised no fool. And I done got fooled before.
So, for me, I need to sit up here and say, like, ‘Hey, hold on. I hate to do this to you, baby, I I gotta see you. You know what you got in me: the good. But, I really don’t know and that’s what I’m afraid of. That’s not to say that I can’t come along or come around to being that or everybody to understand that it’s, like, yo this journey, It’s a journey. But, it’s lopsided until it’s not.”
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