Evelyn Lozada praises co-parenting relationship with Carl Crawford

Evelyn Lozada is on a winning co-parenting team with ex Carl Crawford.

“I think sometimes people don’t understand my relationship with him,” Lozada, 48, shared exclusively We weekly while promoting season 11 Basketball women. “They might think there’s something going on, but overall we’re just good friends. … It’s really about having a healthy co-parenting relationship.”

The couple, who share 10-year-old son Leo, were together for four years before splitting in 2017. To this day, Lozada says she still enjoys spending time with the former MLB player, 42, at special gatherings and events.

“We just make it work,” she explained Us. “We have no drama. It’s damn near perfect to be honest. I appreciate that because I think for Leo, to see that me and his dad have a great relationship and I can go out to dinner with him and Leo, it’s just time and space with him. I think it is beneficial for him.”

When it comes to dating today, Evelyn Lozada’s SG bodysuit designer said she is “single by choice.” While sparks flew LaVon Lewis on Peacock’s reality show Queen’s Courtthe couple called off their engagement in October 2023.

“I really enjoy being alone, maybe a little too much,” Lozada said with a laugh. “It’s not that I’m closed off. I’m open to it. I just don’t chase it. I feel like whoever comes into my life, it just has to really make sense and fit in perfectly.

In her defense, Lozada has a busy schedule as a businesswoman and parent of two children. (She is also mother of daughter Shaniece Hairston31, from a previous relationship.)

When she’s not filming Basketball women or expand it BX Glow jewelry line, Lozada drives her son around town for various sporting events as he tries to follow in dad’s footsteps.

“I always do travel baseball and tournaments because he is passionate about this,” Lozada explained. ‘Leo is very athletic. If he could play ten sports, he would.”

She is also preparing to become a grandmother when her daughter welcomes a baby later this year.

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In June, Hairston surprised fans as a yoga instructor announced her pregnancy via Instagram. As Lozada counts down the days and months until the baby’s arrival, she is respecting her daughter’s privacy and not discussing the news on the Internet. Basketball women.

“The whole time we’re filming the show, we’re filming about Brooke [Bailey] It may be a grandmother and I will find out for her,” Lozada said. “My daughter is pregnant all the time and I couldn’t say anything because it’s not my place. It’s not my place to talk about it unless she wants me to. Then I follow her example because I know how she is doing. She is just very private and I respect that.”

Basketball women airs Mondays on VH1 at 9pm ET/PT.