LisaRaye Discusses Chemistry Issues With Ex-Fiance & Reasons Behind Mutual Breakup
A couple months ago, fans were happy to hear LisaRaye had found love and she was ready to walk down the aisle again. But shortly after announcing her engagement, the Players Club actress revealed she was calling the engagement off. For most fans, the abrupt change immediately raised lots of questions and now LisaRaye is opening up about what really happened behind the scenes – literally.
Wedding Called Off:
For those who don’t know, LisaRaye met her man when she appeared on the ABC reality show The Proposal. In a nutshell, The Proposal is quite similar to The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, where women and men are vying for the attention of an alluring stranger in hopes of finding love. In LisaRaye’s case, there were three men competing for her affection and Anthony Bryant ended up being the man she chose. However, their whirlwind romance was short-lived.
In August, LisaRaye announced she was calling off her wedding, just one month after they announced the engagement. At the time she took to Instagram with a detailed post about their mutual decision to call off the wedding.
With a photo of herself, she included a caption announcing their split. “Hello everyone, yes the relationship with Anthony B is over,” she wrote. “I feel the right decision was made when I chose Anthony from the batch of men I was given to select from the TV show.”
Story Behind ‘The Proposal’:
According to The Jasmine Brand, she’s sounding off about The Proposal and how things went down behind the scenes. LisaRaye recently posted a live video to Facebook where she explained the ins and outs of the reality show. They were all smiles when they announced the engagement, but when the cameras stopped rolling, things quickly changed.
“Don’t be fooled by [the fact that] this show is called ‘The Proposal;’ that he put a ring on my finger, and I said, ‘Yes, I do.’ What ‘yes, I do’ was – what the premise of the show was is: meet somebody that you could possibly leave this stage and get to know, and if a marriage and engagement happens, then we’re all for it. If it doesn’t happen, then you’ve gotta go onto the next.”
But unlike lots of other celebrity relationships that end on a bad note, LisaRaye revealed she and Anthony mutually decided they’d be better off as friends.
“Once we had a discussion and realize we weren’t compatible, and there was no chemistry between us, then we were like, ‘Yeah, I think we’d be better off as friends.’ She added, “Once you figure out your regiment and you realize that it’s not going the way you think a relationship is supposed to go, you go, ‘Wait a minute. This isn’t what this is…We’re just cool.’”
LisaRaye went on to explain her personal struggles with love. She admitted she could be subconsciously doing something lots of women do. Since she was a daddy’s girl, she could be looking for someone relatively similar to her father.
“One things for sure: I might be looking for my father. And most women are. You know what I mean? I was definitely a daddy‘s girl, and I was definitely spoiled…I’m looking for a portion of my father – somebody that’s going to look at me, and love me, and cherish me, and take care of me.”
If LisaRaye would have tied the knot with Anthony Bryant, it would have been her third marriage.
