By Mallory Mattingly
New Orleans Saints linebacker Demario Davis and his wife Tamela just spilled the tea on…spilling the tea.
“I think just culturally, or, you know, from the surface, tea becomes something where I think when I first started hearing, ‘What’s the tea?’ it was like, what’s the gossip? You know, like what’s the hot thing?” Tamela explained on the first episode of her “Tea with Tamela” podcast.
“I think here I want to be able to go layers and layers and layers deep with the guests that we bring in, just so that we’re able to put on display some of the things that people may or may not know,” she continued, explaining her podcast’s mission. “But go even deeper with the things that may not be easy to, you know, really find out about a person or where they are in their season of life.”
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The couple builds their “life on truth,” a foundation they don’t want to stray from, which means getting vulnerable sometimes.
“I think what tea means to me, or based on kind of what you shared, is like what you don’t see,” the linebacker said. “You see the man of God, you see the Christian, you see the family, but you don’t see the hardships, and how I’m able to endure through the adversity is because I’m standing on the covenant.”
“And that’s what I would tell everybody is build yourself on the covenant. Don’t build it on your emotions. Don’t build it on what you think is your strength. Don’t build it on something you read in a magazine,” Demario emphasized.
The Davises have done just that, rooting their family in faith.
In 2022, Demario spoke about what God had shown him after a tough year in the NFL.
“I remember asking God, ‘Why am I going through this again?’ Because at least in my relationship with God, if I feel like I’m going through the same thing, there’s something I didn’t learn the first time,” he said on an episode of the “Sports Spectrum” podcast. “So was there something I didn’t learn in my year in Cleveland or something I didn’t learn in my years in New York?”
“What He showed me was, ‘You kind of have two of the three. You have the courage to change the things you can control and you have the wisdom to know the difference, but you don’t have peace when things aren’t in your control, and we need to work on that,'” Davis recalled God saying.
“And I was like, ‘Wow, here I am in a situation that’s outside my control (the losing streak), and I need to have peace and faith in You. Really there’s nothing I can do. I’m playing as best as I can play; I feel like I’m leading the defense as best I can. But there’s injuries going on, there’s front-office decisions — things that are outside my control, that I can do nothing about — when I felt like we were going to have a great season.’ And I was like, ‘OK, I can feel the anxiety that’s there.’”
No matter what Demario and Tamala face in life, their foundation is built on their relationship with God, and spilling the tea means getting real about what He is teaching them.
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