Melanie Brown wasn’t down with some of Eddie Murphy’s lifestyle issues and felt something would have to change if they stayed together and raised their child.
“There were certain things that went on in his house with his lifestyle that I wasn’t prepared to be a part of,” Brown says on essence.com. “I have a baby with this guy, so I have to be somewhat respectful. I’ll simply say that there were lifestyle changes that he would have to make if we were going to live together. I don’t have people knocking on my door at 3 and 4 in the morning.”
You may remember that the actor was detained in the wee hours of May 2, 1997, after police found a transvestite prostitute in his car. Murphy insisted that he was just giving a lift to Atisone Kenneth Seiuli (aka Shalomar). “It’s not the first hooker I’ve helped out,” Murphy said at the time. Talking with Murphy about his “lifestyle became a trippy discussion, which ended up where we both refused to budge,” says Brown.
Who could it be knocking at Eddie Murphy’s door at 3 AM?
Just Eddie Being Eddie