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

Mar. 15, 2025

Chrissy Teigen shared her heartbreaking pregnancy loss in 2020.Photo:Chrissy Teigen/Instagram

Chrissy Teigen/Instagram

John Legendis sharing more details about wifeChrissy Teigen’s heartbreakingpregnancy complication, which necessitated a life-saving abortion in 2020.

“My wife, she was well past15 weekswhen 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 topartial placenta abruption— meaning, the placenta separated from the uterus wall too early, according to theCleveland 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’resufficiently dyingbefore you can have an abortion…‘ ”

“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.”

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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.”

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

“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.”

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

source: people.com