In early 2019, after Iman Shumpert left a heart-eyed emoji on a photo of Alby Rydes’s newborn baby, speculation arose that Iman Shumpert might have fathered a child outside his marriage. Even worse, Rydes was rumored to have gotten pregnant after having a threesome with Shumpert and Teyana Taylor. “Word on the #FNLradio block is that Teyana & her hubby had a ‘3 Way’ w/ a chick they brought back to the crib named Alby Rydes. Well she rides alright because Iman allegedly shot the club up & now they got a whole baby,” one user wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Responding to the rumors, Shumpert took to Instagram, noting that there was no truth to the claims circulating at the time. In the statement, Shumpert admitted to being friends with Rydes, adding that his comment on her post was born out of awe and respect for pregnant women. “My legal team is about to go all at all blogs involved in curating this fake news and trust me them blogs don’t have my kind of bread,” Shumpert’s statement further read(via Hollywood Life).
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Taylor also denied ever being intimate with Rydes and reiterated Shumpert’s claims about the heart-eyes comment. “You gotta be at a high level of insecurity to get mad over heart eyes on an innocent/baby pic. I’m just not that girl, I’m sorry,” she wrote on X.
