Tiki Barber’s girlfriend Traci Johnson defends herself in memoir

A. Isaac Senior Editor

tiki barber and traci johnson 214x214 Tiki Barbers girlfriend Traci Johnson defends herself in memoir

In April of this year, Traci Johnson was the floozy everyone wanted to hate. Johnson’s picture and life story was plastered on every major website in the world. She was the person responsible for loving husband, Tiki Barber, leaving his then 8 month pregnant wife. And now, four months later, Johnson wants everyone to know the real story of her and Tiki’s relationship.

While I can’t speak for Tiki, at first I found the story about his and my relationship to be humorous. The scandalous headlines, such as “Sneaky Tiki” and factually incorrect details – like Tiki leaving his wife while she was eight months pregnant with twins – that graced the cover of “reputable” newspapers amused me. Amusing because I, quite frankly, knew the truth. I knew that Tiki didn’t leave Ginny when she was eight months pregnant for me. I knew that his relationship had deteriorated before my relationship with him was even a thought in his mind. I knew that I was never Tiki’s babysitter or that he “lavished” me with expensive gifts or snuck into my college dorm room (I lived on an all girl’s floor with a key swipe entrance … think how difficult it would be to sneak a 5′10, 200-pound, black man into that environment?). Plain and simple, the truth was and still is that Tiki and I never crossed the line of being inappropriate while he was married and nor was our relationship inappropriate now that he wasn’t.

Her memoir goes on to talk about how uncomfortable the two felt going out in public and how their lives have been turned upside down. It reads very much like one of those Hallmark or Lifetime movie scripts. She even ends in sentimentally with:

We simply just take solace and great joy in knowing that the people who know the true “Tiki and Traci” have loved and supported us every step of the way and we take even greater joy in making new friends who have learned to love the “real us.”

And in the end that is all that matters. A few good friends and one true love.

So who’s playing Traci Johnson in the upcoming saga, “Tiki and me: How I went from babysitter to lover”. I’m thinking hottie Piper Perabo would make a nice fit

Memoir: Tiki Barber’s Girlfriend Traci Johnson Reveals The Truth Behind The Tabloid Stories [Crushable]

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