John Legend Speaks Out About Wife Chrissy Teigen’s Heartbreaking Late-Term Abortion: ‘Her Life Was in Danger’

The singer is sharing that Teigen was “bleeding out” when the couple lost son Jack in 2020, which required terminating the pregnancy

<p>Chrissy Teigen/Instagram</p> Chrissy Teigen shared her heartbreaking pregnancy loss in 2020.

Chrissy Teigen/Instagram

Chrissy Teigen shared her heartbreaking pregnancy loss in 2020.

John Legend is sharing more details about wife Chrissy Teigen’s heartbreaking pregnancy complication, which necessitated a life-saving abortion in 2020.

“My wife, she was well past 15 weeks when she had to have an abortion,” Legend, 45, told host Shannon Sharpe on the Oct. 23 episode of the podcast, Club Shay Shay.

“She was miscarrying and bleeding out, and all these things were happening.”

“Her life was in danger,” Sharpe interjected.

“Her life was in danger,” Legend affirmed.

The couple lost son Jack when Teigen was 20 weeks pregnant due to partial placenta abruption — meaning, the placenta separated from the uterus wall too early, according to the Cleveland Clinic, which says it can be life-threatening to both the fetus and mother.

Legend continued, “For the government to say, 'Oh we need to evaluate this to make sure you're sufficiently dying before you can have an abortion...‘ ”

“That's what they're saying, right? In Texas and in Georgia and in all these states where they have Trump abortion bans,” Legend said, referring to the bans and restrictions that were put in place following the 2022 overturn of Roe V. Wade by the Supreme Court.

“They're saying the government needs to evaluate whether you are sufficiently dying before you can have an abortion — not your doctor, not you and your family, right? The government.”

Related: Georgia Mom, 28, Dies of ‘Preventable’ Infection After Being Denied Life-Saving Procedure Due to State’s Abortion Laws

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He continued, “No, stay out of it, right? Let these women — let them and their families and their doctors — make these decisions. We don't need the government to be involved in it.”

“Women don't need the government telling them what to do with their bodies,” Legend said. “People that have an abortion after 15 weeks almost always they wanted to keep the baby but there's some kind of complication that came up that they have to have an abortion."

<p>Chrissy Teigen/Instagram</p> John Legend and Chrissy Teigen with their four children in April 2024.

Chrissy Teigen/Instagram

John Legend and Chrissy Teigen with their four children in April 2024.

“When we went through all these fertility struggles and then had a miscarriage, it made it even more clear to me how personal everything [is] that happens in that room with your ob-gyn."

He continued: "Everything that happens in that room is private, and it's so intensely personal and intensely physical. A woman feels every aspect."

As Teigen, now 38, wrote on Instagram when she shared that she’d lost son Jack, “We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough."

"Jack worked so hard to be a part of our little family, and he will be, forever.”

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