Shaunie Says Shaq Doesn’t Want New Reality Show Because It’ll Show He’s An Absent Father

Yesterday we reported that Shaunie O’neal, ex-wife of former NBA star Shaquille O’neal, was headed to court in attempt to get an order allowing her to showcase their children on television so that she may continue working on her VH1 reality show “The Shaunie Project”. Shaq is obviously against this but in court documents provided by Shaunie, she says the real reason isn’t about the kids, it’s because he doesn’t want to look bad. She also says that she does not receive spousal support or alimony so with Shaq blocking this project, he is also blocking her income.

Via HipHollywood:

According to the court docs, Shaunie believes Shaq doesn’t want to do the show because it will tarnish his image as a father and show that he is barely around his kids. Shaunie says that the children spend the summer with O’Neal but that he has attended  ”maybe one of our children’s birthday events this year.” What’s more, Shaunie says Shaq has missed 4 graduation events this year and in the past four years has attended “maybe four sporting events” that the kids are involved in.

Shaunie also writes in her declaration that Shaq was offered an Executive Producer credit on the show,  and the opportunity to view the episodes before they aired to ensure that the show portrayed his children to his liking. Producers close to the show tell us Shaq agreed to sign the consent forms, but reneged only after VH1 wouldn’t agree to paying him $1 million for his participation.

The judge rejected Shaunie’s bid for an order allowing her to put her kids on a new reality show. Shaunie was seeking for the judge to rule in her favor without a hearing and unfortunately, Shaq’s lawyer was a it more convincing. The two are expected back in court on January 28th to begin their hearing.