Former NFL star quarterback Cam Newton made some startling claims about the value of women on a recent podcast. Newton appeared on the “It’s Giving” podcast hosted by Sarah Fontenot when she asked him if a woman’s “value gets lowered when they have multiple children by multiple men.” “I just think that the reality of that answer is that women’s value gets lowered the more children that they have. I was having this conversation with one of the mothers of my children and she’s still fine. Like, I was telling her, ‘The guy that you’re dating or will date, if he ain’t willing to love on these five children that you have, he ain’t the guy for you,’” said Newton. Newton has nine children of his own from three different women, with the women also having children from other relationships.

Newton shared about speaking with his ex about the difficulties of finding a man willing to accept other kids that aren’t his. “Because when I came into your life, I was willing to accept you and whatever you had and there’s guys that’s out there that’s going to say, ‘Them ain’t my kids. I want you.’ Well, that ain’t how that works. But that’s not to say you can’t find nobody. I’m pretty sure she has somebody,” he said. He added that despite relationship issues, there is an unbreakable bound with the mothers of his children. “I will forever be indebted to them because no matter how they make me feel, once I come back to the ground of, ‘Yo, that’s still the mother of my children,’” he said.

Reality TV star Monique Samuels of the “Real Housewives of Potomac,” slammed Newton’s comments. “I think that he is projecting and he’s talking about the women who’ve had his children. I would have definitely felt some kind of way if I had one of his kids,” she said. She suggested that Newton “might wanna get his brain checked.” “He was raised by his mother and his grandmother. He had women that were strong in his life,” she said. “So, to even make statements like that is just so rude and so off.” Samuels insisted the opposite about a woman’s value. “Women gain value when you have children,” she said. “There’s nothing wrong with that. You get a different perspective of life… they teach you things you may have missed.”