Tommie Lee, 41, denies dating Solange Knowles‘s 21-year-old son, Daniel “Julez” Smith Jr. The former reality star cleared the air after viral video showed Julez giving her a piggyback ride – and she referred to him as “my baby.”
Social media users reacted with ridicule and mockery to their potential May-December romance. One X.com user asked, “Don’t she got a daughter his age?”
Chile, what’s going on here? ? Julez Smith and Tommie Lee posted up together… pic.twitter.com/0LneeZxMbj
— Tasha K (@UNWINEWITHTASHA) March 23, 2026
After rampant speculation online about “Cougar” Tommie Lee chasing after down-low boytoy, Julez, Tommie cleared the air in a post on her Instagram Stories.
“Lol this was fun. Hate to break it to ya, I’m not that typa Girl [sic],” she wrote.
Julez also posted a cryptic denial on his Instagram Stories. “Just me and me only,” he captioned a photo of himself standing near a thug with a braided hairstyle.
Tommie, real name Atasha Jefferson, is best known as a former cast member on the VH1 reality TV series “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,” and later for appearances on the Zeus Network reality show “Baddies.”
Julez is best known as pop star Beyoncé‘s nephew. He recently addressed “misconceptions” about his sexuality.
“People think I’m gay,” he said in a livestream video. “Look, you know, like, the first time I ever heard of myself in the media was I was in seventh grade, and my mom had posted this picture of me,” he explained. “I was dressed as LL Cool J. I had, like, this red jumpsuit. I was 13 at the time. Mind you, I had a girlfriend at the time. I went to school and my girlfriend showed me a picture that my mom posted… Some grown ass adults was calling me gay at 13,” he complained.
Julez added, “They was sayin’ I’m pretty, I’m a pretty boy… I went from bashing women to automatically now I’m gay… Listen, I just declined an interview at the spot, so now I’m homophobic.”
One X.com user wrote: “I’m starting to think Julez is fighting the closet door.”
Another user wrote: “If that’s the hardest part about being yourself as a ‘straight man’ u need to go back to the drawing board.”
A third person commented: “His body movements give sassy. His tweets give sassy. Sassy is sassy. We call u sassy not gay ocean eyes.”
A fourth person wrote, “He Gay like EJ Gay tho… I guess.”
The last comment is in reference to Magic Johnson’s cross-dressing son, EJ Johnson, who recently revealed he only dates “straight men.”
Solange, her son Julez Smith addresses gay allegations. pic.twitter.com/KYCXHlHPrr
— livebitez (@livebitez) March 18, 2026
