Jeannie Mai Jenkins credits her daughter with helping the TV personality navigate her divorce from Jeezy.
During an appearance on an episode of the daytime talk show Sherri, Mai expressed gratitude for her and Jeezy's daughter Monaco. The 44-year-old co-host of The Real gave birth to the couple's baby girl in January 2021.
“Monaco? That is my North Star," Mai told Sherri Shepard. "And I can definitely tell you that I don't know if I would handle this the same way without her.”
She added, “Because today, I'm able to look at her and I can say, 'What would I advise you? If you were in my shoes?' And it changes everything. So I'm so thankful to be a mom and I'm thankful to have her.”
Back in September, Jeezy filed for divorce from Mai, roughly two and a half years after the couple tied the knot in 2019. Jeezy claimed their marriage was “irretrievably broken” with “no hope for reconciliation.” The Atlanta rapper additionally requested joint legal custody of Monaco.
According to court documents, the pair are currently "living in a bona fide state of separation."
“They’ve had issues for a long time, but things got really hard over the last few months,” a source told People magazine at the time.“She obviously knew they had problems, but she wasn’t expecting a divorce. Now she’s trying to figure out what her future looks like and where she’ll be living.”
