Damon Wayans Sr. is much from being the final Boy Scout.
After the “My Wife and Kids” star, 64, admitted to courting his nephew’s former girlfriend after his 2000 cut up from ex-wife Lisa Thorner, his brother Marlon Wayans is sounding off.
“Damon, you gotta stop doing that,” the “White Chicks” actor, 52, stated immediately into the digital camera in footage recorded by TMZ on Tuesday. “Damon’s the girlfriend stealing bandit in the Wayans family.”
Marlon made it crystal clear that Damon is not any stranger to all these conditions, including, “We got a thing, don’t bring a girl around D.”
“You gotta stop this Damon,” expressed Marlon. “It’s not what brothers and siblings and uncles and nephews do.”
The “Scary Movie” alum and “Poppa’s House” star are simply two out of the 5 Wayans siblings. The tight-knit household additionally contains Shawn Wayans, 54, Keenen Ivory Wayans, 66, and Kim Wayans, 63.
Marlon teased, “Even the ugly ones,” earlier than he quipped, “he takes them all.”
Damon first confessed to putting up a romance with an unnamed girl who as soon as dated his nephew earlier this month whereas on the “Club Shay Shay” podcast.
“This can’t be true … that you dated the same woman that your nephew was?” host Shannon Sharpe requested his visitor.
“I was in love with her, that’s the thing,” Damon defined. “Come on, you ain’t never done the Jackson 5?”
The “In Living Color” vet referenced how Jermaine Jackson married Alejandra Oaziaza, who was the ex-girlfriend of Jermaine’s brother Randy, in 1995.
The couple had a number of children earlier than splitting in 2003.
“That’s off-limits, Damon,” Sharpe, 56, added whereas suppressing fun.
“No, but it wasn’t like they were in love,” Damon justified. “You know how small the pool is out here in Cali? The dating pool? Like, and this was probably … 2001, 2.”
The star confessed that he knew the thriller girl was his nephew’s former flame once they acquired collectively.
“I got divorced and I was by myself for two years and then I saw her, and I was just like, ‘Oh my God, I’m in love,’ Damon said. “And I found out my nephew had dated her. I’m like, ‘What’s up with that?’ He’s like, ‘That’s you.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, pass the Courvoisier.’ And I went ahead, and I fell in love. And it was okay.”
Nevertheless, he did observe that “family gatherings is awkward.”
Today, Damon is at peace with being single however received’t rule out marriage down the road.
“I don’t date, I’m happy,” he expressed. “I wake up in the morning like a kid. I can do whatever I want to do. There’s peace in my house. I’ve been by myself too long. No, I’ll never say never, because if some woman can climb over the wall of resentment, she was sent from God.”
Damon and Lisa share 4 children — sons Damon Wayans Jr. and Michael Wayans and daughters Kyla Wayans and Cara Wayans. The pair divorced in 2000 after 16 years of marriage.
A 12 months after their breakup, the actor starred within the beloved sitcom “My Wife and Kids,” reverse Tisha Campbell.
The present ran for 5 seasons till 2005. Damon just lately make clear the potential of a reboot 20 years later.
“It was talked about,” he advised Revolt in an interview printed on Monday. “But for me, the fact that we had it all figured out – the next season where I found out that Jay was pregnant, Tisha’s character was pregnant, and the next season would have been what’s it like being older parents. But because we didn’t get a chance to finish it, to say goodbye or wrap it up, it just felt weird. And it felt like we would quickly be rehashing the same thing – the same kind of topics.”
Damon added, “It ran its course and it was beautiful.”
Nevertheless, the comedian teased some concepts for a doable reunion.
“I would really be open to doing a special,” Damon confessed. “A ‘Wife and Kids’ special would be wonderful, where we get a chance to wrap up the show in a more respectful way. It was one of the greatest moments in my career, doing that show with those people who I just love.”
