Here is a bigger scan.

And we all know Daddy Prince ain't low-maintenance!

bellanoche said:

and what the heck does that mean???

DesireeNevermind said:

Didn't Mayte's responses come after some time had passed? I think the more time passed and the more she was able to heal and reflect she was able answer questions better. It's usually like that with relationships. Someone once said to me that a relationship should not be judged by how it begins or ends but how it is lived in between. But when the ending is fresh, it's hard to look at it that way.

After reading Mani's responses I wondered if she was "over" it yet. Her responses seem guarded beyond respecting privacy. They seem like she's not to a point yet where she can look at the relationship through a lense other than how it ended. I don't know I just got that vibe. I mean who describes a marriage as "interesting?" How many years were they together?

I also felt like she wanted to respect Eric and not go into her relationship with Prince too much. I didn't post the entire interview because S2S interviews are like 50 pages long so I just posted where she talked about Prince. However, from her interview and Eric's I gathered that he seems to have a sensitive/ somewhat fragile ego. So maybe her reluctance and evasiveness is out of respect for her new relationship. Mayte seemed more candid when she was single. She was not as much so when she ran to Tommy Lee. Later she even admitted that Tommy was a rebound. So maybe Mani is kind of at her Tommy Lee stage right now. Or maybe she wants to make sure she keeps getting that check, because we know P keeps his business on lock. LOL!!!
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To describe a marriage as "interesting" implies IMHO, control and communication issues. Almost to say the marriage was atypical. Not the Cleavers but not the Osbornes either.
Perhaps the marriage just wasn't what her stalker/fan brain thought marriage to P would be like.

I think P is methodical and calculating in everything he does including his relationships. Which is not to say he never lets his guard down and just chills with his women, but i think he wears the pants in his relationships and maybe treats them like love partnerships as well as business arrangements and ur either down for him controling how everything works or you aint.
My guess is enuf time has passed for Mani to take in everything that went down with her and P. I believe they were most likely separated before the divorce was even filed! Lord please let Eric be much better than Tommy. I don't care bout Mani but I wouldnt wish Tommy on any chick. Cripes, that fool!

DesireeNevermind said:

Ty for making the print bigger, the lovely quirks of my yey disease, good days and bad days. Ok so is she saying Eric is more romantic that P well DAMN, that had to bust his ego when he hears that.The way she talks I think kids are a issue. I hope one day P can lean from his mistakes, mend his fences, and learn love is unconditional and accepting the person for who they are , not what you want them to becaome to benifit you.

DesireeNevermind said:

I had been reading strong rumors at least 7 months before the filing. As early as the previous November, people claim to have spotted Mani with Eric Benet at a mall in Cleveland OHio. This was November and the divorce filing wasn't released until the following spring.

Some tells me, Mani didn't leave Prince and next week hook up with Eric. I bet it was MONTHS since she and Prince was done before she stepped out with a new friend. It had been at least a year before that spotting in the mall that Prince was last seen with Mani... some award ceremony I think the Oscars. After that no more movies, basketball games etc.

jodi081630 said:

DesireeNevermind said:

I hear you. Who knows what went down. I have to admit that it's all rather "interesting" though. However, in the end, all I can do is wish the best for everyone.

Mani seems like a cool chic. Never thought much of Eric but she digs him http://SoundGallery.wordpress.com

bellanoche said:

yeah, i mean i don't have any luv for Mani, just another pretty face movin on up IMO. But she's redeeming herself in my eyes thru her charity work sort of, I always dug Eric as a musical artist (still find him shaggable) and admired him being a single father and a good one by all accounts. So if they make each other happy then cool. 5 dolla says their relationship outlasts what Halle and Prince got going on. Okay, that's bad, I want Halle to marry her baby daddy and live happily ever after.

i have a question, knowing how she got into paisley park and got with Prince (notice how she conveniently jumped over that part in the interview.) and the whole converting to the jw religion ( if that is what she really really wanted to do), did manuela really expect a healthy marraige out of that? what the heck did she really expect?

otherwise she and eric look really happy together, from what i read he seems smittened. in the back of my mind i'm wondering if she's using him for the whole celebrity connection, after all that's what got her in this magazine, but time will tell as they do seem happy.
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wonder505 said:

that's kinda why I don't fully believe her. I think she's still hustling. It could be she just wants a secure life and looking for a longtime benefactor or it could be something bigger; along the lines of personal fame, career and riches. But in any case, I don't think she truly loved P. Eric might be different and hopefully for the sake of his daughter it is. Imagine having to watch your daddy go thru two high profile separations! EGAD!
Now if she starts trying to produce shit (music, movies) then I know I was right about her all along!

DesireeNevermind said:

I think it is a little wird that both the exs ended up with guys that have kids.

So that "Eric is so low maintenance" line must have been a jab at Prince.

Hey Prince is a SuperStarrr! People expect for him to be high maintenance.

Yes Eric has a nice voice. But P is the total package! Damn the more I here Mani talk, the more I dislike here. The charity stuff is great. But damn this chick.....Damn did P know what he was getting himself into. Damn, Damn, Damn.

The next time P fall in love, It should be with someone from his past. Someone who truly knew him when.....

Eric Benet, just someone tell me. How do you cheat on Halle Berry? She's pretty, famous and rich. Eric really screwed that up. And by the way I'm a hetro female.

ddsummer said:

Well Halle supposedly has a crap ass personality. REally needy and jealous...allegedly

DesireeNevermind said:

wELL SUPPPOSEDLY HE WAS IN REHAB FOR SEX ADICTION. iT IS SO ODD THEY BOTH GO AFTER BAD BOYS AND GUYS WITH KIDS AFTER p

About Eric and Halle... Good looks and a nice personality help you get into a relationship but not keeping one.

VenusBlingBling said:

COSIGN -

pplrain said:

did not know that

BKLYNLADYY said:

Just to piggyback on this post...Prince did annull his marriage to Mayte and they stayed 2gether after. So uncalled for IMO

DesireeNevermind said:

She was living in a differnt country though

DesireeNevermind said:

Just to appease his guilty conscience when he started creeping. He was able to truthfully say that he was not cheating (anymore) because he was not a married man.

prodigalfan said:

huh I am missing somethinbg somewhere.

prodigalfan said:

Aint that some low down shit? Bad Princey, Bad!
I still dig him tho he a fool

prodigalfan said:

supposedly.... Spring 2005 ... but it's just a rumor

what kinda crazy shit was that reporter "jamie" tryna pull? "oh I told eric how proud I was of him the other day....when I was teaching him the cha cha" mani like huh? "oh you didn't know that? oh don't be jealous...please"
oh my god! bitch was startin' shit if I ever read it!

Shorty said:

She's always been that way tho