Larsa Pippen explained exactly why her romance with Marcus Jordan came to an end on The Real Housewives of Miami season seven premiere.
The 50-year-old TV personality was in a tumultuous relationship with NBA icon Michael Jordan’s 34-year-old son from January 2023 until July 2024.
Looking back on her on-and-off involvement with Jordan, Larsa revealed her four children gave her the strength to leave for the third and final time last year.
‘When I was with Marcus, my kids were like, “Stop getting back together and breaking up, and just get off the ride.” That’s when I was like, I need to get away from the situation — my kids think that it’s not good for me,’ she shared during a conversation with her mom.
Pippen shares Scotty Jr., 24, Preston, 23, Justin, 20, and Sophia, 16, with ex-husband Scottie Pippen.
Larsa Pippen explained exactly why her romance with Marcus Jordan came to an end on The Real Housewives of Miami season seven premiere; pictured May 30
The 50-year-old TV personality was in a tumultuous relationship with NBA icon Michael Jordan’s 34-year-old son from January 2023 until July 2024; pictured in November 2023
She opened up, ‘We went from really being in love, getting along, to me seeing a side of him that didn’t really align with who I am as a person. When we would go out, he would like to be the very last person in the club. Like, I mean, there’s no one there but the janitors.’
Elsewhere in the conversation, Larsa divulged, ‘I’m kind of used to being alone now. Especially if you’re with the wrong person, it’s definitely better to be by yourself.’
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‘I don’t want to have to address it. It’s so embarrassing,’ Kim Kardashian’s former close friend cried to her mom in the episode.
In a confessional interview she elaborated, ‘I fought everyone to be with this guy, and then it was not a good situation for me and my family, so I had to remove myself from it.
‘But doing what’s best for me and my family ended up pissing him off so bad that he’d send me really bad messages and reach out to my friends and say hurtful things about me, and it was just bad.’
Larsa and Marcus’ relationship quickly came under scrutiny for their nearly 20-year age gap, as well as his connection to her ex-husband Scottie, who is his famous father’s former Chicago Bulls teammate.
The mom-of-four shared her side of the split, lamenting on RHOM, ‘It’s really hurtful that he’s talking s*** about me publicly. It’s f**ked up because I’ve done nothing but be nice to him and be there for him and all of his stupid f***ing issues.’
Her up-down relationship with the ex college basketball star has been a sore point in her friendship with castmate Lisa Hochstein.
Looking back on her on-and-off involvement with Jordan, Larsa said the four children she shares with ex-husband Scottie Pippen gave her the strength to leave the ‘nepo baby’ for the third and final time last year
Hochstein’s boyfriend Jody Glidden is still on speaking terms with Marcus, leaving her in the middle.
‘That’s really what annoys me a lot, the Lisa thing,’ Larsa stated in the episode.
‘Because like, if I tell my friends I’m going through a lot with this person and I just want to move forward and remove a toxic person from my life, and you can’t understand that as my friend… I feel like that’s kind of why I’m mad at her,’ she stressed.
Sharing her perspective, Lisa said the exes’ unstable past confused her.
‘The thing with them is, they go from breaking up to making up, to breaking up. I just felt like, I don’t need to make him an enemy,’ she said in her defense.
Larsa pictured with 16-year-old daughter Sophia and 24-year-old son Scotty Jr., 24 in an Instagram post
Season seven of the Miami franchise premiered on Wednesday
After some time insisting they were ‘just friends,’ Larsa and Marcus exposed themselves as romantic partners when they were spotted kissing in Miami in early 2023.
The former flames were first spotted together in September 2022, immediately prompting relationship rumors.
In January 2025 the troubled former UCF Knights basketball star was arrested for cocaine possession after he drunkenly got his Lamborghini struck on a train track in Florida.
Following her split from Jordan, Larsa has moved on with Jeff Colby, another young athlete who is 20 years her junior.