Shannon Sharpe opened up about his bad luck with women in a therapy session with renowned psychologist Dr. Cheyenne Bryant.
Shannon invited Dr. Bryant on his “Club Shay Shay” podcast to psychoanalyze him after he paid a young woman $20 million to settle a lawsuit earlier this year.
Dr. Bryant got Shannon to open up about his daddy issues.
“I haven’t had the best luck with women,” he said. “I haven’t been the best for them… because I’ve never given them all of me like I have a job. I only gave them what they couldn’t hurt.”
Dr. Bryant asked Shannon to clarify what he meant by what they couldn’t hurt.
“Me, my heart,” he replied.
He said his first heartbreak came when his father abandoned him as a child. Shannon’s father died when he was 13, but he abandoned the family years before.
“I only saw my dad once to really know who I was looking at,” he said.
“What kind of father would you have to be to only see your children once?” Dr. Bryant asked him.
“My dad had some drinking issues and he didn’t think he was the father that he should’ve been,” he said.
Dr. Bryant told Shannon he has the same selfishness he described in his father.
“The pain that his selfishness and his pride and his ego implemented in you is the same pain that you’re implementing in everyone you come in contact with, including your girls and their mothers,” she said. “What your father taught you was, nobody – not even y’all – were good enough for him to come around or stay around.”
She added, “Nothing was good enough for you to stay around – not even your kids. Because you’re obviously not with their mothers.”
Dr. Bryant is well-known psychology expert and motivational speaker who focuses on mental health awareness. She serves as the President of NAACP Branch #1069, and is the Founder of the Dr. Bryant Institute and Dr. Bryant Foundation.
Dr. Bryant offers $350 therapy sessions via Zoom or FaceTime on her website.
Watch her therapy session with Shannon below.
@clubshayshaypod "Selfishness you just described your father has. You have it." – Dr. Cheyenne Bryant #shannonsharpe #dad ? original sound – Club Shay Shay
