Usher's wife 'is no gold-digger'

The best friend of Usher's estranged wife has announced that Tameka Foster did not marry the R&B star to gain access to his fortune.

Nyeisha Dewitt spoke out after growing tired of rumours implying that the make-up artist is a gold-digger.

Dewitt told Us Weekly: "To say that she's a gold-digger... that's just not the case. That just totally discredits her as a professional, as an entrepreneur, as a creative thinker, and it just totally destroys anything that she took her money and time to build."

Referring to the relationship between Usher and Foster, she said: "It’s very, very challenging to have a relationship... that’s sort of ‘normal’, but the existence that they had was far from normal and there was just a lot of scrutiny and a lack of support for their marriage for some reason."

Dewitt added: "I don’t know what role that played in it, but I just know that it’s very difficult sometimes when you are in that situation to overlook some of the insanity that’s going on outside of the relationship and the pressure that it imposes within the relationship."

The couple have two children, 19-month-old Usher V and 8-month-old Naviyd Ely.