Oh no he didn’t!
Usher reportedly paid a former lover $1.1 million (that’s a whopping RM4.7 mil) to settle a lawsuit after claiming that she contracted herpes from the singer.
Court documents, first published by Radar Online, show that the 38-year-old ‘U Got It Bad’ singer, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, was diagnosed with the incurable condition between 2009-2010, An affidavit from the complainant states that the singer engaged in unprotected intercourse without disclosing the affliction beforehand.
According to the California state law (where Usher resides), it is illegal to recklessly/consciously transmit an STD (sexually transmitted disease). Usher later denied being a carrier of the non-lethal condition, despite ‘greenish discharge’ from his penis, court documents say.
‘Believing Raymond’s statements that (the discharge) had been nothing and cleared up, (she) continued her relationship,’ the legal docs stated. The plaintiff was later diagnosed with herpes – complete with vaginal sores, fevers and chills, she alleged in papers.
Between 2011 and 2012, the Grammy award wining artist paid for medical bills on behalf of the plaintiff totaling $2,754.40 (about RM12k), around the same time the ‘Confessions’ singer made his doctor inform her that he was indeed a carrier of the disease, court documents show.
Usher was first allegedly ‘exposed to herpes’ virus in 2009 or 2010, around the time when he finalized his divorce to Tameka Foster, after she accused him of cheating. Foster is believed to have not contracted the virus. The singer has been married to current wife Grace Miguel since 2015. There is no suggestion if she has contracted the virus.
In a deceleration, the woman said she ‘feels that her health and body have been ruined ‘and she ‘has suffered severe emotional distress and has been extremely depressed … knowing there is no cure.’
We’re still waiting on Usher to make a public statement on the matter.
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