FORMER NBA star, Delonte West, has been through thick and thin – battling addiction, financial struggles and alleged homelessness – but he wasn’t always alone.
Caressa Suzzette Madden married the basketball star in 2013.
Who is Delonte West’s wife Caressa Suzzette Madden?
Caressa keeps herself very private, but we know she was born on May 13, 1988.
She is from Dallas, Texas, where she is believed to be living now.
Caressa apparently met her future husband at a mutual friend’s house when West had stopped playing for the NBA and was facing tough financial difficulties.
Soon after, West asked Madden to move into his house in Fort Washington, before they moved to a $1million house in Potomac.
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But the couple were reportedly too broke to afford heating during the winter and West proposed to Caressa by tying a string of jump rope to her finger.
They married in 2014.
Caressa is West’s second wife.
West eloped and married Kimberly Wad in Nevada in 2009.
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How many children do Delonte West and Caressa Suzzette have?
The couple have two kids together, both boys.
Caressa gave birth to Cash West in 2013, when she was 25.
At the time Caressa and West were struggling to make ends meet financially.
Yet a year later, their second son was born, whose name isn’t known to the public.
Where is Delonte West now?
West has reportedly been seen begging on the side of the freeway in Alexandria, Virginia, in June 2022
More than 10 years after he played alongside basketball legend LeBron James, a video has surfaced of the former legend walking between cars holding a cardboard sign.
It isn’t the first time West has appeared to be homeless, after he was allegedly spotted in 2016 wearing a hospital gown in the streets of Houston and panhandling in north Dallas in September 2020.
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Video showed him allegedly being savagely beaten by another man on a Washington freeway in 2020.
Caressa has reportedly returned to her hometown and is living with her mother and children, according to unconfirmed sources.