Shaquille O’Neal reveals more about ‘dumbass mistakes’ that cost him his family: source

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spilled his guts to Jason Kelce, telling the Philadelphia Eagles center: “I made a lot of dumbass mistakes to where I lost my family and didn’t have anyone.

I was an idiot … I lost my whole family. I’m in a 100,000-square-foot house by myself.”Now, O’Neal has clarified that he wanted to share a hard-earned lesson from his 2002-2010 marriage.According to a friend, O’Neal confided after the interview: “The point I was trying to make is that I want other people to learn from the mistakes that I made.

You get married, you make vows and you should be thankful for what you have. Stay with it. I want people, especially those in the public eye, to learn from me.”“He is telling people to live in the present and care about their families because they can’t be replaced,” the friend told The Post.But others around him make it clear that O’Neal isn’t exactly sitting home alone these days.“Maybe at some point, when he was living in his large home in Orlando, soon after the split from his wife, he was alone,” another source who knows him told The Post.

But these day, Shaq does not have a lot of time for solitude. There are his appearances on TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” occasional color commentating for NBA games.