Usher: My Two-Year Marriage Was My 'Best Mistake'

Usher: My Two-Year Marriage Was My 'Best Mistake'
LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 22: R&B Artist and Actor Usher Raymond arrives with girlfriend Tameka Foster at the 15th annual Trumpet Awards at the Bellagio January 22, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The awards show is a celebration of African-American achievement where Usher was on hand to present the Usher Raymond Altruism Award to actor Hill Harper. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 22: R&B Artist and Actor Usher Raymond arrives with girlfriend Tameka Foster at the 15th annual Trumpet Awards at the Bellagio January 22, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The awards show is a celebration of African-American achievement where Usher was on hand to present the Usher Raymond Altruism Award to actor Hill Harper. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Usher's divorce was messy even by Hollywood standards, but the R&B singer says he absolutely no regrets about marrying stylist Tameka Foster.

In the September issue of O Magazine, the Grammy Award-winning singer says his decision to marry Foster when he was 28 ended up being his "best mistake" ever.

"Most people probably think I regret it because I ended up getting divorced," the 35-year-old singer says, "but it helped me learn that sometimes I think I know more than I actually do."

The pair married in 2007 but split two years later, in part because Foster wasn't ready to deal with the pressures of fame, Usher told Oprah in 2012.

"I did get a great sense of the insecurities that were there and the fact that she wasn't coping well with being in this position, being married to Usher, and all that came with that," he said.

A three-year custody battle for the couple's two sons, Usher V and Naviyd, followed. A judge awarded Usher primary custody in 2012, but the legal battle heated up again last summer, when Foster unsuccessfully tried to win temporary primary custody of the two boys after the oldest son nearly drowned in Usher's pool.

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