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LOS ANGELES. — Eddie Murphy has revealed how his ten children are the ‘centre of his everything’ while opening up about fatherhood in new Netflix documentary Being Eddie. The comedian, 64, said before becoming a parent he ‘only thought of himself’ and would sometimes stay awake for days, but has now turned his life around.
Eddie was previously engulfed in vicious paternity battle with ex Mel B, 50, over their trans son Angel, 18, after he denied he was the father leading to years of estrangement, before finally reconnecting. In his new documentary Eddie said: “My kids are the centre of everything, before kids it’s just about you, once you have kids it’s all about them.”
“I used to stay up two days sometimes before going to bed, when I met (second wife Paige Butcher) I got more on her schedule and now we watch two episodes of Seinfeld and go to bed.”
The Nutty Professor star is also father to Eric, 35, with ex Paulette McNeely; Bria, 35, Myles, 32, Shayne, 30, Zola, 25, and Bella, 23, with ex-wife Nicole Murphy; Christian, 34, with ex Tamara Hood; as well as nine-year-old Izzy, nine, and six-year-old Max, with second wife Paige.
It was revealed earlier this year that the actor and Spice Girl’s once contentious relationship ‘flourished’ co-parenting their child, who is now living as a trans man.
Mel, 50, told US Weekly “(Angel and Eddie) spend time together, they go on holiday together. He has ten kids, he is a proper father.
“I think being in the kind of (situation) that I was in, it was hard for me to step out and have that relationship (with Eddie) flourish,” referring to her ‘abusive’ marriage to ex-husband Stephen Belafonte. Scary Spice, who wed Rory McPhee in July, said she’d learned to to co-parent with the Shrek star ‘bit by bit’ and admitted their friendship has “flourished even more’ as their son has grown up.” —Mailonline
