Laura Govan Announces Reconciliation With Gilbert Arenas, Plans To Marry

Ladies, is it just us, or could the man who left us with four kids, including a newborn, never get so much as the time of day from us again in life?

Laura Govan clearly doesn’t ascribe to that way of thinking.

ESSENCE.com: You refer to Gilbert as your fiancé. You two are back together?

GOVAN: Yes, we are, and we plan to get married soon. When and where, I don’t know yet. I feel like we’re already married though, ten years, four kids later. People say he’s a mess, and I’m a mess. You know what, we’re each other’s messes. Everybody has breakup and make-up moments. It just so happens that ours is out in the public. You learn to grow. At this point in our lives Gilbert and I have been there, done that; the drama, the chaos. We’re older now, and we’re more mature. Now we’re better parents, and we’re taking the steps to make things better. Regardless of our past, we want our kids to see a good future.

Ooooh… sounds a little enabler-ish, doesn’t it?

ESSENCE.com: Gilbert had a lawsuit trying to stop you from being on the show. Why do you think he didn’t want you on it and why was it important for you to be on it?

GOVAN: A lot of people don’t know that Gilbert is really shy. He didn’t want things about our family to be out there. But at the end of the day, things about our family are already out there so I thought let’s take control of the things we can. It was also important for me to do the show because, one, I wanted to do something on my own. I’m always in his shadow. Had it been to get a job at Target, I would have taken it, but since I was offered this opportunity, I took it.

Yeah. She’s right: those two definitely belong together.

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