After a bad divorce, and an even worse custody battle over their surrogate child, Sherry Shepherd has finally opened up about all the drama with her now ex-husband Lamar Sally.
It's been about four months since Shepherd was named the legal mother of the baby born via surrogate last summer and about a month since the entire custody battle that followed ended, but the former "View" co-host has explained that there was a time when things got pretty ugly.
"I'm the type of person I feel like as long as you can get up, you have another chance," she told People. "I've gone through stuff, a nasty divorce, a custody battle, but for me, I get up and I smile. I go through it and I make it through."
She explained how she didn't make it clear exactly what she wanted or didn't want out of the whole thing because she was "scared of somebody leaving the relationship." She understands that everything comes with its own consequences, and she was afraid to say, "That's not going to work for me. I don't want that."
The two got married in 2011 and eventually, they decided to pursue surrogacy with a donor egg and Sally's sperm. Prior to the their now 1-year-old son being born, the two began to fight and that's when the whole legal battle began. She was eventually legally named the boy's mother. She also has a 10-year-old son with her other ex-husband Jeffrey Tarpley.
"As long as the people who know me, know my heart and they know my love for my son and my character and integrity. That's all I have to stand on," she said. "As long as I can look at myself in the mirror and look up and go 'Did I do what you told me to do,' I'm good."
Back in April, she also opened up and continued to stay positive about everything going on between her and Sally. "Under the circumstances I'm doing really, really, extremely well," she told Entertainment Tonight. "I don't care what I go through, nothing gets me down. You know me. I will smile my way through anything. Life is difficult. So you just have to hang tough and you keep going."
