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For more info on Carlita, including how to order her new book, Carlita’s Way: Out of the Dark, Into the Light on her website.
After surviving and overcoming years of emotional abuse and betrayal, Carlita Hodges is ready to break her silence about her marriage and subsequent divorce from Chicago Bulls guard Craig Hodges and her secret affair with singer R. Kelly. Faizon Love Goes In On The Cleveland Browns, New Breed Players, Off The Mic: Kirk Franklin Talks About Forgiveness, The Act Of Loving Everyone [VIDEO], Uplifting News: Khalia Braswell Is Making Social Change Through Tech, Uplifting News: 9-Year-Old Saves Classmate With The Heimlich Maneuver, Uplifting News: Alabama Man Creates Lawn Service Non Profit To Help Others, Uplifting News: 11-Year-Old Creates Doll Line To Promote Self Love, Nikki Woods, Senior Producer, The Tom Joyner Morning Show.
He also had quite a few issues with his then-wife Carlita, who once tried to light him on fire and also had an extramarital affair with R&B superstar R. Kelly. Craig Hodges was not injured in the incident and Carlita Hodges was later arrested. As mentioned, Craig Hodges had a solid NBA career.
Hodges was, and still is, very passionate about the issue of social injustice and often tried to get other players involved in political issues as well, even once asking Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson to boycott Game 1 of the 1991 NBA Finals in protest of the Rodney King incident a few months earlier. Follow Nikki Woods on Twitter @NikkiWoods. On December 19, 1991, six months after Craig Hodges won his first NBA title, the Baltimore Sun reported that Hodges’ then-wife, Carlita, had doused him in gasoline and threw a lighted match in his direction in front of an elementary school in Northbrook, Illinois. Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Following the Chicago Bulls’ title win in 1992, Craig Hodges wore a dashiki to the White House and delivered a handwritten letter to then-President George Bush on how he felt the administration mistreated minorities and the poor. © Copyright 2020 Endgame360 Inc. All Rights Reserved.
He played 10 games for the Suns the following season before being traded to the Chicago Bulls. The same report alleged that Carlita Hodges was simply trying to get her husband’s attention. Ex-Celebrity Basketball Wife, Carlita Hodges, releases tell-all memoir about her life as the original celebrity basketball wife, and empowers men and women in abusive relationships.