Gabrielle Union is no stranger to strip clubs. In fact, she was a regular during pre-pandemic days and loved to make it rain.
During an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," the model and “Bring It On” star, 48, discussed how she and her friends would hit strip clubs “10 or 15 times in a year” and spend generous amounts of money during their "monthly outing."
"How much is the most you've ever dropped in an evening at one of those places," Kimmel asked. "Probably 10 or 20 thousand," Union replied.
"You don't really think about it because — the booze," she quipped. "And you just want to make sure all the ladies go home with a little something."
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Union said that strip clubs are a "welcoming place," but weren’t really her husband's scene. She is married to former NBA star Dwyane Wade.
"I think in the beginning when we first started hanging out, I would see some of his teammates — who shall remain nameless, but you know who you are," she joked. "But he would be like, 'No, I'm gonna go home.'"
"It was something we kind of did in the beginning," she said of visiting the clubs with Wade, before adding that now it's more of a “solo operation” or something she does with friends.
Union and Wade are raising five children: Kaavia (2), Zaire (19), Zaya (14), Xavier (7), and Dahveon (19), Wade’s nephew. Zaire and Zaya are Wade’s children from a previous marriage, and Zavier is Wade’s son with a different ex.
Union and Wade welcomed their daughter Kaavia via surrogate in 2018.
Earlier this month, Union shared a personal essay in Time, adapted from her book of essays "You Got Anything Stronger?" about the hardship she faced when Wade had a baby with a different woman. In 2013, Wade welcomed his son Xavier while he and Union were broken up.
“It should go without saying that we were not in a good place at the time that child was conceived,” Union wrote in the essay. “But we were doing much better when he finally told me about the pregnancy. To say I was devastated is to pick a word on a low shelf for convenience.”
“There are people — strangers I will never meet — who have been upset that I have not previously talked about that trauma,” she continued. “I have not had words, and even after untold amounts of therapy I am not sure I have them now.”
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