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Usher and his mother Jonnetta Patton have had some infamous falling outs over the last few years since his wife Tameka Foster came into his life – and supposedly drove quite the wedge between the once tight mother and son. Eventually Usher fired his mother, saying it was better to just have a mom and someone else handle his work life. Which in a way does make sense – except that Patton had always done an extraordinary job with her son’s career, so no one really bought that excuse.
Usher hired famed manager Benny Medina - and despite a long and successful track record, Medina failed to bring in the kind of numbers Usher has seen in the past. His current album sold just 2 million copies so far, despite his last album Confessions selling 19 million. That’s one heck of a big difference. So Usher has come crawling back to his mother – who accepted the job.
“Usher has dissolved his management arrangement with Benny Medina and has re-engaged Jonnetta Patton as his manager,” the mother and son said in a statement Wednesday. According to a source, “He wanted her to come back on board and she decided to.” The source cited lackluster album sales as one of the reasons Usher decided to reconsider his management.
In his own statement, Medina told PEOPLE Wednesday, “With an artist like Usher, the bar is set really high. Whether it was management, marketing or the music, we achieved a number one single and a number one album… I had a great time and we parted ways amicably.” Usher’s publicist, Patti Webster, also resigned on Aug. 1.
In an interview with Vibe earlier this year, Usher would not characterize the split from his mom as a firing. Instead, he said he paid her “the ultimate compliment” by having her retire.
[From People]
Clearly it was more than just the “ultimate compliment” – Patton didn’t attend Usher’s wedding last year, which he postponed and nearly called off. There is definitely a lot of behind the scenes drama in this family, but it says a lot about Patton’s nature that she was willing to come back on board and guide her son’s career after all this. Hopefully he’ll be appreciative.
Here’s Usher with his mother Jonetta Patton and Holly Davis-Carter at the New York Premiere of ‘ In The Mix ‘ in November 2005. Images thanks to WENN.
Written by JayBird
Posted in Business, Family, Jonnetta Patton, Music, Parents, Usher
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7 Responses to “Usher rehires his momager”
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Uh huh, his ugly wife is going to hate that.. USHER you are lame and a douche. Nobody likes you OR your wife.. get over it already.
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Usher messed up when he got that gal pregnant and then capped it all off with a marriage. I’ll give him credit though, he’s trying to live up to his responsibilities.
After what happened to Kanye West’s mom, he did the right thing by bringing his mom back into the fold - especially since she seems to care about him more than anyone else in his life.
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I thought that was his wife in the first picture.
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Usher is a good lookin’ foolio, not sure why he married that fugly woman (i know she’s having his baby, aw, how responsible!). Was his mom that good of a manager or what?
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If he was still single in 2007 and if he released an album at that time, he would still be on top just like his Confessions album was. Even though Usher is always better than Chris Brown, Ne-Yo, Mario and Omarion, “Here I stand” wasn’t at all worth listening 2 like 8701, my way and Confessions were.
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Give him a break there a lot more celebrities that do much worse things and face worse consequences than what Usher has done. Don’t believe the media.
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Good move Ush, nobody cares about you like your mama will.
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