Gabrielle Union has stated that she cheated on her first husband, Chris Howard. She made this known while opening up about the allegations of infidelity.

Gabrielle Union has stated that she cheated on her first husband, Chris Howard.She made this known while opening up about the allegations of infidelity that rocked her first marriage to ex-NFL player, Howard.

During her appearance on the Archair Expert with DAX Shepard podcast on Monday, the 50-year-old actress described her relationship to her ex-husband as dysfunctional from day one.

“In our first marriage, neither one of us felt like the marriage should get in the way of our dating,” Union said, after Shepard expressed complicated feelings regarding his own past infidelity in romantic relationships. A part of it was like keeping up with his activities, like, ‘Oh, that’s what you’re doing? You’re going to feel this one,’ and I just felt entitled to it as well,” Union told Shepard about Howard.”

“I was paying all the bills, I was working my ass off, and I felt like that’s what comes, the spoils of riches. Like my dad before me, whoever has the most gets to do whatever the hell they want is what I thought. It was just dysfunctional from day one.”

Union and Howard, a former running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars, met at a party in 1999 in Jacksonville, Fla and wedded in 2001. The pair separated in November 2005 after four years of marriage.