All sorts of details have been coming out in the breaking story of Tony Parker and Eva Longoria’s divorce after just over three years. The latest news is that Tony was cheating with the wife of one of his former basketball teammates, a detail that is thought to have been leaked by Eva to her BFF at Extra, Mario Lopez. The alleged mistress has been named, and she’s Erin Barry, the estranged wife of Tony’s friend, former San Antonio Spurs player Brent Barry. Apparently Eva found hundreds of text messages between Erin and her husband, which prompted her to file for divorce. She also supposedly found evidence on Facebook that he had cheated on her with another woman back when they were first married.
Celebuzz has an exclusive today with news from a “source” who claims that Parker was just friends with this other woman, and that their hundreds of text messages were “innocuous.” Give me a break!
As the world still adjusts to the news of Eva Longoria and Tony Parker’s impending divorce, Celebuzz has obtained exclusive new information about the circumstances behind their split.
A source close to Parker confirms rumors that the NBA star had sent numerous text messages to his former San Antonio Spurs teammate Brent Barry’s wife, Erin Barry (pictured above), but that the two had NOT shared a romantic relationship.
According to the source, the Barrys have been close friends with Longoria and Parker for some time, even spending New Year’s Eve together a couple of years ago at Longoria’s Los Angeles restaurant, Beso. The Barrys are currently in the midst of a divorce and, our source adds, Parker and Erin’s texts involved the two leaning on each other as their respective marriages went through troubles. A seemingly innocent exchange between close friends, it would seem, but Longoria appears to be prone to jealousy in her marriage to Parker.
One interesting note, Parker recently signed a four-year, $45 million extension with the Spurs. Eva waited til after that deal was signed to file for divorce.
Whatever the motive might have been, our source stresses that Parker and Longoria’s split is amicable.
[From Celebuzz]
First of all, doesn’t every guy use this “we’re just friends” line when they get busted cheating? Even assuming this is true, it’s not innocuous to have an ongoing emotional affair with another person and in no way does it “help” a troubled marriage. If anything, it completely ruins the trust and feeds discontent within the relationship. When you have a new person on the side fawning all over you you’re hardly trying to mend things with your wife. Plus, if it was “innocuous” why didn’t he tell his wife about it? So either way, Tony got what was coming to him. I also love the detail that Eva waited to file until Tony got his $45 million contract nailed down. You know that he’s the one who leaked this story to make himself look like the wronged party.
Also, I read US Weekly’s cover story on Eva and Tony and nowhere does it say that she is positive that he was sleeping with this woman. Still, all these messages are damning enough on their own. How can she ever trust the guy again?
Today is the day of “b-tch please” stories!
Edit: “B-tch please” to his lame excuse for the texts, not to Eva, guess I worded it poorly…
Karma is a bitxh huh Eva, rat face better keep her hands off Tony money
Celebitchy- YES! When men get caught cheating, they always use that excuse. “We are just friends” “You are imagining things” “You’re paranoid” It’s the oldest excuse in the book, and the most worn out.
When will people learn that nobody cares about the excuses for cheating or virtual cycber cheating as it were? The best thing anyone can do in these situations is go to McDonald’s and Supersize their next “Happymeal” with an order of STFU.
I don’t understand the hate for this woman, even if she is stuck up, even if she’s a bitch, she doesn’t deserve being cheated on especially since it really seemed like she really loved him. He’s an ass and he looks like one.
I really like her and in DH she was always my favourite one (and Ricardo Chavira *sigh*)
And by the way, if it’s true she waited for him to sign, I say “You go, girl!!” (shows what a dumb ass he is!)
No one deserves to be cheated on. Even Eva Longoria as irrelevant as she is. I hope she follows the Sandra B example and not the Jen Aniston one. Move on with grace, dont do interviews about it and become a “victim”.
Why does anyone bother marrying professional athletes anymore? It was so smart of her to wait for him to sign that deal.
watched mario’s reality spectacle on vh1 last nite & it was filled with tmi & leaves one with the overwhelming question…is his significant other any more than a surrogate? if he’s eva’s bff…they are mfeo. yikes.
I’m confused…so did Tony file for divorce before Eva? (the original TMZ scoop) Was that before the $45m contract? This is going to get messy…
But, amazing how it’s okay for her to spend inordinate amounts of time with Mario Lopez, while her husband was out of town for games – AND THAT’S FINE? Two sets of standards here folks. Nothing like the pot calling the kettle black. I don’t think she is the victim – she just pointed the finger first! Nope, she’s no innocent victim.
Love how Celebuzz thinks the ENTIRE WORLD was just so heartbroken and had to take smoke breaks and get counseling over Eva and Tony’s split. We had to adjust? Gimme a break. Yea we didn’t give that much of a damn. The only split that rocked my world was when Ben Affleck and Jen Lopez split.
All I can say is I hope Eva gets a piece of that 45 mil.
Oh yes….they were “just friends” and yes, Eva & Tony’s split will be “amicable”, and look up in the sky….is that a flying pig?!
@Ella, thanks for clearing that up, I thought you were talking about Eva and after reading the other posts on the first story,a lot of people are blaming her for what she did in 24 hours (and no one even knows exactly what really went on or why, everyone just assumes that she wanted to be the first to do it which seems to be ridiculous but whatever, they know best) and they’re forgetting what he has been doing to her for quite a while now.
I think it’s sad that for some celebs it’s like “she doesn’t deserve that , poor thing” and then for others for no real reason it’s “yeah well she reacted like a baby”. Yeah, because when you’re deeply hurt, you have to act like a mature person no matter what. Shame on you , Eva!
guesty,
what does mfeo mean?
I don’t get the Eva hate. She is smart. She waited until he locked down that deal, so she can get that money. He broke her trust. Why exactly was it wrong for Eva to spend time with Mario? They have been friends prior to Tony, and there is NO REASON to suspect foul play.
Now if Tony found texts and stuff that showed, things between Mario and her got together then I can see some being “Team Tony” but dude is DISGUSTING! A team mate WIFE?!
My ex-boyfriend started a “we’re just good friends” relationship with one of our mutual girl friends. She emailed him all the time, had him work on her condo, help her pick out a new car… They never actually slept together, but one day out of the blue he dumped me and started dating her 2 weeks later.
Emotional affairs are just as damaging as penis in vagina affairs. Two years later, she cheated on him with one of his best friends, so you know, I’m good.
That being said – I’m sure Tony was sleeping around.
And exactly, how do you know how much time she spent with Mario Lopez while her husband was out of town? Did they Sext one another? Was she found to have had an affair with him? Because how I have read things, he was caught cheating with someone else prior to this, 100’s of Sexts were found and the other couple involved are getting a divorce. When you come up with info on Longoria’s cheating, then I will say she pointed the finger first, otherwise, save your made up facts.
Horrible when this happens right during the holidays…my heart goes out to her. She is better off without him in the long run. Go get and AIDS test girl – stat.
@kai…made for each other. (sleepless in seattle) 🙂
@Raven Sparrow, no problem, I really should not comment while half-asleep!
All divorce stories sadden me, ESPECIALLY when cheating is involved. There is such an influx of cheating stories lately, it’s depressing… and the “special treatment” some celebrities get makes no sense to me either. A wronged spouse is a wronged spouse, period. No one deserves to be cheated on. If a person is difficult (seems to be the popular opinion about Eva) and the marriage is on the rocks, get a divorce first. A side piece won’t solve any problems.
I am anon for this post, because I regularly post on this site and IRL friends & a family member or two know the name I use here. And don’t want everyone that I know, knowing this about me. BUT…
For 2 years I traded very hot texts with a former lover. We were each last relationchip before we each re-connected with our first loves and got married/moved in with them.
Flash forward 7 years(save the obvious itch jokes)
We now live in different states and connect through a social networking site, reminiscing about our brief but very hot time together. One email lead to another and soon we were trading some of the raciest text I have ever sent or read. He crossed that wall and phoned my a few times. That made me uncomfotable and I eventually told him we need to stop what we all now call sextextng and we stopped all contact for a year and now just trade birthday wishes.
But here is the thing everything was fantasy, there was never any physical contact. When he came to my city, I was always conviently busy with family obligations.
While I understand now why this was wrong to his wife, (I am no longer with my SO.) We both knew that I would never sleep with a married man, we indulged our fantasies in crazy hot ways by email and text. I think there was a certain amount of “safe naughtiness” in our relationship,because of boundries.
While I can’t know what happened in tony Parker’s text relationship, I just want to put it out there. That if he says there was no sex, it is possibly true.
Maybe Eva & Brent can get together. Hey…it worked for Shania Twain. =)
I really don’t think Eva would end a 7 year relationship over “innocent” text messages. She obviously saw things she didn’t like. And I agree with the people who say, who cares if she is a bitch, it doesn’t mean she deserved to be cheated on. People can have platonic relationships with the opposite sex, so her friendship with Mario seemed innocent enough and if it wasn’t, well then Tony should’ve left her, not began a sexting relationship with another woman. No excuse!
what a disgusting pig
I’m with potatopeel- (really? “potatopeel”?!) Dlisted has ragged on Eva for being BFF with Mario Lopez for years! That was a questionable relationship. I figured they were banging or he was gay, so I think there’s more to all this than meets the eye.
@ devilgirl – And let us not forget the classic “You’re CRAZY!” when cheating men get caught.
As far as I’m concerned, there is no such thing as “innocuous” when it comes to hundreds of texts (or calls) to a woman other than one’s wife.
“First of all, doesn’t every guy use this “we’re just friends” line when they get busted cheating?”
Yes, this is the universal denial that is listed in the official Douche Handbook. There had to be something in those messages to make her file for divorce.
No one deserves to be cheated on. Even Eva Longoria as irrelevant as she is. I hope she follows the Sandra B example and not the Jen Aniston one. Move on with grace, dont do interviews about it and become a “victim”.
Why does anyone bother marrying professional athletes anymore? It was so smart of her to wait for him to sign that deal.
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Love every word
Oh, yeah. I got a divorce from a d-bag who always insisted they were “just friends” … yeah. And they travelled together for work and stayed out all night. Even our marriage counselor was all, “She doesn’t believe you and I don’t believe you.” Yet he sat there, shaking his head with a little half-smirk like a 10 year old.
This is fairly typical. See http://www.truthaboutdeception.com/community-features/ask-an-expert/questions-by-topic/infidelity/652-my-husband-will-not-confess-to-cheating.html
@guesty: whoa, thanks, for a minute I thought it meant mentally f*cking each other.
@Roma: penis in vagina affairs, love it.
I found out my now ex was cheating based on his Sexts. I was told I misinterpreted them and that I was (Yes Bellaluna) CRAZY, paranoid and probably cheating on him!Yeah right! Anyway, I sent him packing and then I ran into one of his “friends” at a party, where upon learning who I was, came up to me and apologized for her part in the cheating scandal, as he told her we were broken up when he was screwing her. LOL! I was crazy and paranoid and I misinterpreted the Sexts, but his other piece apologizes! Cheaters and their stupidity!
So tired of scumbag cheaters! Can we throw them all on an island together in the middle of nowhere?!
I agree with all of you, there’s always something more in those “we’re just friends” relationships, wether the people involved are only fantasizing or not. Besides, we dont know exactly what kind of compromising texts Eva found.
I would have done the exact same thing; if u give the man a second chance and let him disrespect u, then u dont love urself enough. Im glad she wasnt afraid of change and put all the years of marriage and alleged happiness aside and tought this bastard a lesson.
Mari: that would be one BIG island!!!I’m afraid it would sink!!There are too many Cheaters and way less faithfuls out there.
I love Eva Longoria and I feel so bad for her.I never liked Parker and always thought she deserved better.I’m glad they don’t have kids.I have a feeling in two years tops she’ll have a family with a great guy.
I don’t understand how these men can be so stupid as to leave evidence of being unfaithful with texting, voice messages etc. Baffles me and they all make moocho bucks in their professions! Their stupidy should be costly then and the spouse should be rewarded generously for being with these goofballs.
@GOMO: because men, especially sportsmen, gotta have trophies. They need visual reminders of their conquests so they can relive the moment and have proof that it actually happened.
I can just hear him now: “Who you gonna believe, baby — me or your lyin’ eyes?”
marriage? what marriage? I mean the guys lives in san antonio and she’s in LA no wonder he cheated, the only time he gets to see her is over the summer. I mean it was doomed from the star plus I think the age played a part too let’s not forget she’s 7 years older than him
***cough,bullshit,cough**
Friends? I have plenty of friends but I dont exchange hundreds of texts and emails in a month with ONE person..
Give me a break!
@Roma: so sorry to hear it, but it sounds as though he got what he deserved in the end! Cheaters never prosper. They carry that baggage shit into their next relationships…
My own theory of why he is pulling the just friends line. He is scared shitless of his teamates, I am not a basketball fan but I know in team sports it’s important for the team to trust eachother this is really a nasty thing he did not just to Eva but to his teammate and the whole team. I won’t be surprised if he ends up getting traded out of San Antonio.
MLN if he isn’t he should be!
So he is pulling the classic “we’re just friends” bullshit.. riiiiiiiiiight.
Just because they didn’t bump uglies doesn’t make what he did a “non affair”.
I don’t get the Eva hate either.. did I miss some story or something? can someone fill me in please.
Yeah she really loved…HIS MONEY!! I don’t feel sorry for her one bit or him for that matter…I do feel sorry for Bret Barry though…
I feel bad for her that this happened but not at all suprised. So, he was about 21 when they got together, right? Remember when she went on and on about how much she taught him about sex? If he wasn’t all that experienced when they got together I guess now is when he decided to experiment.
I don’t know why she rubs me the wrong way, she just does. I try to ignore her, but after the sheer stupidity of how her and her people handled this media event, I think she is just a scumbag. He cheated, she probably did too and I do not care, but all this back and forth did they didn’t they, made me never want to hear her name again-and for that reason team Tony. I have never thought, nor do I now, think cheating is alright, but I have to say this is the first person I just do not feel sorry for. This is 100% publicity, she’s getting her rocks off with a taken NEW FATHER(Mario Lopez) and then expects us to feel sorry for her? Not gonna happen
Confusing, was it a “physical affair” or a “online affair?” Not that both aren’t cheating but every statement mentions “texting” and nothing else. Or is that Tony’s defense “only online.”
I think you should plan on living with your spouse, if you live separately there is too much time for getting into trouble. Not an excuse, just an opinion. If you don’t want to live together, or prefer to work on your career, wait to marry.
guesty,
lol. I thought it meant ‘…f-cking each other’. couldn’t figure out what the ‘m’ meant.
Just shows that fame fortune & stardom don’t guarantee happiness & ultimately you have to look for more then just lust. Also shows that no matter how short or long you know someone no one deserves to be cheated on even with just “friendly” texting especially when you dont tell the partner. Also shows that no matter the time you can never really be sure how well you know someone & once that trust is gone it’s gone. I dislike both but you go girl take his money it’s the least the pecker can do for the betrayal & lieing. Once again shows that no one these days is honest or keeps their word which is sad.