John Legend is revealing more details about his wife Chrissy Teigen’s late-term abortion.
The “All of Me” singer—who shares kids Luna, 8, Miles, 6, Esti, 21 months, and Wren, 16 months, with Chrissy—recently recalled the life-saving medical procedure she had in September 2020 when they lost their son Jack.
“Her life was in danger,” John said on the Oct. 23 episode of the Club Shay Shay podcast. “She was well past 15 weeks when she had to have an abortion. She was miscarrying and bleeding out, and all these things were happening.”
As a result of a partial placental abruption—which occurs when the placenta detaches from the uterus before delivery, which can be life-threatening for both the fetus and the parent, according to Cleveland Clinic—the Cravings cookbook author and “You & I” singer were not able to save their beloved baby Jack.
“People that have an abortion after 15 weeks almost always wanted to keep the baby,” John continued, “but there’s some kind of complication that came up that they have to have an abortion.”
