The former First Lady of Turks and Caicos, LisaRaye McCoy recently spoke with HoneyMag.com to promote her new reality show “The Real McCoy” which debuted last night on TV One. She also talked about her ex-husband affair with Rosci (106 & Park) as well as her Black Men Magazine photo shoot….
Check out a few experts from the interview below:
You signed a prenuptial agreement. What seems to be the hold up with your settlement?
We are still going through that now. This man has lost his position, his lifestyle, family, and his government legacy. That is a lot. He’s facing not only an investigation, but also charges. And not just from the governmental standpoint, but he also had charges for rape. That’s a lot for one man to take on. And he loses his wife. I get that there are some other priorities in his life. My thing is that I’m waving my flag over here going okay so we agreed that we are no longer interested in being together. So let’s be fair with each other.
What would be fair? Do you feel he owes you something?
I took my money over there to do business deals. And so now that my money is filtered with his—there was money that was not given back to me. Now that I’m in the middle of everything that [he] created for [himself], ultimately what he created for us because I’m his wife. It’s not fair. Let me have mine. Give me mine and let me go back to doing what I do. That’s where my anger came from. I’m not really interested in what I can get out of his riches. I’m interested in mine.
Many people feel that you married him for the money. Are you a gold-digger?
The perception that they have of me — I could give less than a damn about. I say this to them. I dug for gold in high school. I’m a platinum girl now. I’m an international person. I don’t even like taking out the trash. I don’t dig for anything. I don’t have a garden either. Every relationship that you embark on is some kind of business relationship.
You got to look at it that way. You got to protect yourself, not just from the man next door, or Uncle Sam, or the IRS, you got to protect yourself from anyone you’re in business with. So you better look for someone that’s going somewhere who’s trying to take you with them. Money attracts money. Power attracts power. You ain’t got to tell the white girls that. Look at Jackie Kennedy Onassis. She stepped from Kennedy to Onassis. Do you think she stepped from Kennedy to Burger King man? No.
Were you ever in love with your ex-husband? Were there good times?
When I met Michael on our very first date, I was taken with him. I was totally smitten. I was totally like this man has a wonderful spirit. I felt a connection. I did not even know he was the president of that country. It was not until after our 18-hour date in Turks and Caicos, when he was taking me back to the airport the next day that we were holding hands. And I looked up at the wall and saw a big picture of him.
I looked at the wall and I looked at him, and I said I’m with the president of this country. So I didn’t have this connection with him falsely thinking, oh this man is rich, or this man is powerful. There was something about that man that made me commit before I knew any of that. We dated after that for a month. After a month, he asked me to marry him. When I tell you that he introduced me into a world and a life and a country that I am so very appreciative of him for.
How did it go wrong?
He had a child within our marriage with the same baby’s mother that he had his first child with, which I did know about. When a woman feels something is going on we go into that investigative mode. And when I did that, I got all of my ducks in a row and I brought it to him and said what is this all about? He explained it to me. I said to myself, ‘Is this worth me breaking up my new marriage for?’ It was deceitful but it wasn’t worth me breaking up my marriage at the time. But I had to think if I trusted him. Trust is a building process. So while we are trying to build the trust, so many things were happening with affairs and the corruption of governmental funds and then the Rocsi thing.
Were you shocked when you found out about Rocsi and your husband?
I’m never shocked, girl. I don’t put anything past anyone. I was very disappointed in the way it was handled. Because to me, if you’re going to do whatever you’re going to do… respect your [and my] home. Do that over there, not here. And the way it was done so publicly with people calling me saying, ‘Hey, you know I’ve seen pictures on the Internet in your backyard? And I see that she flew in and you flew out.’ I didn’t know that she knew my husband.
Have you seen her since?
Have you heard that I’ve seen her? You will hear about it. I’m sure that you will
You were recently featured in a racy cover shoot in Black Men Magazine. Was the shoot your idea?
I’m so upset about that because let me tell you they were not supposed to use that picture. I was sick on that photo shoot. It was 23 degrees out there in that dessert. I didn’t feel pretty. I didn’t feel sexy. I was just like let me try to pull this off. In the midst of that you get a couple pictures that [are] not appropriate.
You should have enough tastefulness and integrity about yourself as a photographer and as a publisher [to say], ‘we are not going to use this shot because she was getting in to position. ‘We are not going to use this shot where her nipple is showing because that is not appropriate. We are not going to use this butt shot because she’s an older woman, she’s a mother, and she’s not Diamond. And that’s exactly what it was.
If you look at my facial expression on the cover, it’s almost if I’m going “huh?” I was in the middle of fixing my hair. I’ve been there done that. It took me right back to my video vixen Diamond days, which is not fair to me. It’s not fair to a former first lady and it’s not fair to a single mother who’s an older woman now
What were your intentions with the shoot?
I was supposed to be teasing my male fan base and letting those forty year old women know that hey we can keep it together. We can be fine and fabulous at 42. And telling the twenty year olds to watch out honey cause the forties are the new twenties. That’s what it was supposed to be. He ruined that for me.|Read More
LisaRaye always give a great interview I love her and I think Rosci better watch her back lol!!!!! In case you missed 1st & 2nd episode of LisaRaye’s reality show check it out below:
