Ciara Wilson said her separation with thug rapper Future Hendrix was the a-ha moment she needed to stop dating thugs.
Ciara and Future were shortly engaged to be married in 2014. She went all out for her marriage. She made grand planned to get married in a 19th century castle and she posed for the cover of the August-September 2014 issue of Brides magazine.
Friends suggested CiCi to wait until after her marriage to pose for the cover. But she was impatient. Her best friend La La Anthony was among her bridesmaids.
“I can’t believe I’m crying!” she told a a Brides magazine writer. “I knew right away that [Future] was different. Now he’s my best friend in the world, my partner.”
Days later, Future called off the wedding, leaving Ciara embarrassed and humiliated at the altar.
The mother-of-3 focused on the worst day of her life in a nearly interview with Women’s Health.
“I told myself I’ve got to figure out how to navigate in the next chapter of my life,” said Ciara, who addressed she fell for Future because she didn’t love herself.
All the things I was aspiring to have at that time, even thinking about love, I was like, it’s going to happen when it’s supposed to. But I can’t love anybody to the best of my ability if I’m not loving on myself. I can’t be the best mom if I’m not loving on myself. So I put more focus on me, taking care of me; it was the best thing I could have done.”