Future’s personal life has also become fodder for gossip headlines. Not only his relationship with Ciara, but his past relationships. In late 2012, a woman named Jessica Smith came forth and it was reported that Future had a son with her that was 11 years old at the time. After a paternity test, the hip-hop star was ordered to pay child support. Shortly thereafter, another woman surfaced and said that Future had fathered her child the year before. For a man with a fiancée and a baby on the way, his baggage was always being sifted through and exposed. But Future says he never worries about what the gossip hounds discover, he knows who he is and what he has. In fact, he says it hasn’t been difficult working through the scrutiny at all.
“It’s been easy. It’s been fair,” he says. “I found a way to balance it out. I never got into that. I’m not a big media [or] blog person. I don’t get into it. If someone says something that’s not true, I know if it’s not true. You really can’t focus on the negativity. You only gotta focus on the truth. That’s what I usually focus on.”
