This coincided with Union’s own struggles to have children, trying IVF in a bid to conceive.

“To say I was devastated is to pick a word on a low shelf for convenience.

The 48-year-old actress struggled with her fertility before choosing to go the surrogacy route.

Gabrielle Union smiling

“I had a child with someone else and I had to tell her,” he said.

I couldn’t sleep.

I wasn’t eating” (viaDaily Mail).

Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade and daughter

Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade