Stevie J. and Faith Evans.Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images
Faith EvansandStevie J. are keeping the peace amid their ongoing divorce.
Despite their legal estrangement, the “I’ll Be Missing You” singer and the producer will be spending the holidays together, a close friend of the couple tells PEOPLE.
“It’s true, they are spending the holidays together. Their family, everyone, all the kids. Everyone gets along,” the source says. “It’s not a dysfunctional family. It’s just Stevie’s never been married — and he married Faith.”
The source adds of Stevie, 50, “He loves her. He wouldn’t marry her if he didn’t.”
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A rep for the producer had no comment, while Evans' has not responded to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Evans did not request support from Stevie and the document also stated that the couple has been separated since May 29, 2020. (That month, Evans wasarrested for domestic violenceagainst her husband, though the chargeswere later dropped.)
The source claims that Stevie “never worked while they were married” because he was “helping take care” of Evans' 14-year-old son Ryder, who has autism.
Questions of their spending time together arose after Evans spoke toEntertainment Tonightand said, “Stevie actually just came in and gave me this glass of champagne.”
“I’m pretty sure he will be here for the holidays,” she added.
TheLove & Hip Hop: Atlantastarfiled for divorce from the singerin November after a three-year marriage. Not even a week after the news broke, Evans shared a series of videos from a beach trip with Stevie andcaptioned the post, “Get us free, bruh!”
Last week, when Evans wasrevealed asThe Masked Singer’s Skunk, she spoke to PEOPLE and said she has “a very great group of friends” who have been there for her throughout the divorce.
“I have a very, very great group of friends and some of which I lean on for different things. But I also have a very strong relationship with God and I know that to whom much is given, much is required and that meaning goes a long way,” she said. “So I look at every obstacle, every difficult time, every trial as a blessing because He made me strong enough to get through it.”
source: people.com
