“I never wanted my mother to feel second to any woman,” says Marlon Wayans, 51, on why he decided to stay single for his mother.
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Actor and comedian, he is very worried about his marriage. Because he does not want to equate any other woman with his mother.
He told The New York Times in an interview published on May 4 that he worried that his potential wife would make his mother, Elvira Altheia, feel slighted.
“I never got married, because I never wanted my mother to be jealous of a woman. I never wanted my mother to feel second to any woman,” he said in the interview.
His mother died in 2020 at the age of 81. After his mother died he realized that his mother was his world. He felt a lot of emotion for his mother.
“My mother’s death broke me, It shattered me into a million pieces because that was my girl,” he said in the interview.
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Marlon Wayans says moments before her mother dies, “I told my mother on her deathbed, “ ‘I never got married because I always wanted you to be my No. 1 girl.’ Those were my last words. I said, ‘Take that to heaven with you.’ “
He said, “I miss my parents dearly, but I’m a different human with my parents gone than I was when they were here. Now I’m a man. I don’t have parents anymore, so I live differently. I understand the quality of life.”
He feels a lot of loneliness after his parents died, which is why he prefers to live alone. His mother was everything in his life because of which he could not forget his mother.