Overview
- Ayesha told Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson on the IMO podcast that she never meant Stephen was not her type, saying she worried as a teen that she was not his because he was “Mr. Cool.”
- She apologized for earlier saying athletes were not her type, calling the stereotype disrespectful and tracing it to teenage ideas shaped by movies and school jock tropes.
- Stephen added his side of their early story, saying her responses warmed once he went into “full‑court press,” and he recalled skipping plans with his father to see her in Los Angeles.
- The conversation followed months of online backlash to clipped remarks from Ayesha’s 2025 Call Her Daddy interview, during which Stephen publicly defended her and rapper Killer Mike later apologized for boosting a misreading.
- Stephen has been sidelined since January 30 with knee pain and bone bruising, which has kept him home more and increased their time together with their four children.