USHER’S KIDS DON’T WANT HIM TO ATTEND THEIR EVENTS BECAUSE HE’S FAMOUS

When your name is Usher Raymond IV, scoring an invite to attend almost any event on the planet is a given. Well, almost. There are some events that Usher has to sit out of, even though he would like to be front-and-center. The father-of-four said on a recent episode of the Club Shay Shay Podcast that his kids don’t want him to attend their events because he’s famous. Usher with all four children. USHER/INSTAGRAM Although the 45-year-old father wholeheartedly understands, it is still a pretty bitter pill to swallow for him because, he wants to “be there.” “My kids – sometimes, they don’t want me to come,” he told podcast host Shannon Sharpe on the episode. “They don’t want me to be at their basketball game or their recital, or they wanna be very, very low-key, ‘cause they don’t want that energy.” “They don’t want, ‘Oh Dad walked into the room and took…’ ” he said, as Sharpe added, “All their focus off me.” “And it’s hard, because I try my hardest to have that empathy, but I wanna be there,” Usher went on to say. In the interview, the upcoming Super Bowl half time show headliner admitted that there...