Gloria Govan Speaks On Break Up With Matt Barnes

Last week, Basketball Wives LA stars Gloria Govan and Matt Barnes announced that they had decided to end their ten year relationship. There is no telling how long they have been separated but it’s safe to say that they waited until the end of the Basketball Wives LA season to announce that they were no longer together. On Tuesday, VH1 caught up with Gloria during the Reunion show and she remained optimistic as she talked about the break up, on where she wants to go from here, what her family think about the separation and whether or not she sees them ever getting back together again

Your relationship has been shown a lot this season and we’ll see even more of what’s going on with you a the end of the season, but can you talk about your split?
Matt and I do have kids and we’re trying to be as cordial as we can right now and we’ll be in each other’s lives forever, but as relationships go, we have our ups and downs. It hasn’t been an easy ride moving across the country twice, having kids at 21 when I just graduated college, it hasn’t been easy. And now Matt has the lockout, so everything has been stressful with the breakup, the lockout, everything, it’s been a whirlwind. But we’re still friends and we’re still working things out and I wish him nothing but the best.
On her sister Laura believing that Matt and Gloria will get back together
Of course she does. My whole family is rooting for that man. I swear. They would pick him over me. I’m not going to say never, I’m optimistic, but for now…we’re going our separate ways. But if our paths cross again it’s meant to be. For now, we’re just taking our time to do our own thing. And Laura of course wants it. With her situation with Gilbert (Arenas), she’s been in and out, out and in. She has a lot of experience and good advice when it comes to situations like this.
Do you look up to her and think if they can get back together, anything’s possible?
Anything is possible but am I looking at them like “Yay, we can get back together because Laura and Gilbert have fluctuated so much and they are back together”? No. I look up to my sister, I think she’s a very string person but in terms of relationship, I’m walking to my own drum here.
Do you want to sow your oats and date other people, is that part of it?
I think that’s a lot of people’s assumption, that oh, she wants to f— around and f— everything because he did and it’s like NO. A), it’s such a double standard, even if I wanted to I can’t because they’d put me on blast if I did. And B) I have kids, you know? I’m not looking to date anyone at this moment, I’m just going to take this opportunity to take a step back and reevaluate where I wanna go in life. And I think I have a long way to go to make my mark in feature films and in my community, but I’m happy. I’m happy with where I am now.

I’ll be very surprised if they don’t get back together…