Since marrying Maximillion Cooper, Eve has opened up about the harsh trolling she has received for her interracial marriage.
Eve told Metro.co.uk, “In the beginning, it was very hard because obviously, I come from Hip-Hop, there was no other person at that time, especially from that world dating outside the race, outside of Black guys.”
The rapper and her white British husband have been married since 2014. Before their relationship, neither of them had dated outside of their own race.
She adds, “When we first started posting about our relationship, we got the worst crazy messages that I can’t even believe someone could write or think or type these words.”
Since then, nearly all the trolling has stopped.
She stated, “Over the years, I have to say now it’s mostly 99.9 percent positive because of us being so confident in loving each other and who we are that people have come around, or those ignorant people have just left my page which hopefully has happened.”
However, she says they have challenging moments in their relationship, like when she told her other half she was leaving.
“My husband and I are very honest with each other to a fault,” she said. “I’ve never been in a relationship like this, where it’s been very honest and respectful.”
Eve says race is still a factor in their relationship, and it’s not something that could easily be ignored. Especially during a time of turmoil in the United States and the United Kingdom, where they live, following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the Black Lives Matter protests.
In the June 2 episode of The Talk, Eve discussed how race factors into their relationship.
“I am in an interracial relationship. I am having some of the most difficult and uncomfortable conversations I think I’ve ever had, and vice versa with my husband,” Eve shared. “But, at the same time, it’s a beautiful thing, because … I don’t know his life through his eyes. He doesn’t know my life through my eyes.”
