Back in April of this year, Tiki Barber and Traci Lynn Johnson were the highlight and feature story of every news source and gossip blog in the world. The headlines referenced “Tiki Barber Leaving His 8 month Pregnant Wife Ginny Cha For A 23-Year-Old Blonde Intern.”
Now four months later, Traci Lynn Johnson releases a memoir letting everyone know the real story behind her relationship with Tiki Barber.
Traci reveals:
” While I can’t speak for Tiki, at first I found the story about his and my relationship to be humorous. The scandalous headlines, such as “Sneaky Tiki” and factually incorrect details – like Tiki leaving his wife while she was eight months pregnant with twins – that graced the cover of “reputable” newspapers amused me. Amusing because I, quite frankly, knew the truth. I knew that Tiki didn’t leave Ginny when she was eight months pregnant for me. I knew that his relationship had deteriorated before my relationship with him was even a thought in his mind. I knew that I was never Tiki’s babysitter or that he “lavished” me with expensive gifts or snuck into my college dorm room (I lived on an all girl’s floor with a key swipe entrance … think how difficult it would be to sneak a 5′10, 200-pound, black man into that environment?). Plain and simple, the truth was and still is that Tiki and I never crossed the line of being inappropriate while he was married and nor was our relationship inappropriate now that he wasn’t.”
Traci goes on to talk about how uncomfortable the couple felt going out in public and how their lives have been turned upside down.
She adds:
” I remember one day, crying to Tiki, probably after reading a blog about us (which I promised Tiki I wouldn’t do), begging him to call the papers, to scream it from the top of 30 Rock, to simply tell the world the truth because I thought it was destroying me, him, and the potential future for our relationship together. Upon my request to vindicate not only myself, but him as well, Tiki, sat me down, placed his arm around me, and said, “Nothing that I can say will change their perception. Only time will.”
To read the full entire memoir, click here!
