“Dwyane Wade was cheating on Gabrielle Union”: Shaquille O’Neal once threw the Heat star under the bus for an affair
Andrew Mccoy
Published Apr 09, 2026
Shaquille O’Neal snitched about Dwyane Wade cheating on Gabrielle Union with Lauren London while still being married to Siohvaughn
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It is a fact that Shaquille O’Neal has a big mouth even when you consider his 7’1 stature, his talks still overtower his personality.
Although his TNT partner Charles Barkley dwarfs him when it comes to saying outrageous things, O’Neal is second to none when it comes to speaking blatantly.
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It’s not like he brought forth this side of his since he retired from the game in 2011, and started his job with Turner Sports, he was always vocal.
But how much ever vocally active he was during his long and successful NBA career, nobody ever accused the Big Diesel of being a snitch. Until someone did.
Shaquille O’Neal accidentally leaked that Dwayne Wade was cheating on Gabrielle Union while flirting with a reporter
In his 19-year NBA career, there weren’t many people whom O’Neal could call a good friend. But Dwayne wade was among the few who handled the big man’s overpowering nature quite well.
Wade was the first superstar since Penny Hardaway and Kobe Bryant with whom O‘Neal did not develop a public feud.
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But he did something much worse to the man who led him to his fourth and final title, and it had to with the Heat star’s love life, which was quite complicated back in 2008.
Wade was then married to his high school girlfriend, Siohvaughn, and was fighting a divorce case with her while having an active relationship with actress Gabrielle Union at the time. He denied the allegations with Lauren London totally.
Shaq obviously did not have the idea when he was chatting with Allison Samuels that the chat would be leaked and become a news headline and make him what he himself hated the most, a snitch.
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