Wayne Brady has revealed that amid the coronavirus pandemic, he is quarantine with his 17-year-old daughter Maile, his ex-wife Mandie Taketa and her boyfriend. According to Page Six, he said, “My ex-wife Mandie and I, we have a different and a very special situation than a lot of people that co-parent … For the entire duration of [Malie’s] life, we have co-parented as best friends,” adding that he and Taketa “live virtually next door to each other.”
He continued, “Our quarantining is a little different, we quarantine between both of our homes and I’ve got a big backyard and lots of land, so we both share this land and this space. Mandie, her boyfriend Jason, my daughter Maile, we are a family, so we’re like this new, nuclear family …”
Oh how he and his family has been holding up during quarantine, he said, “Moments like this bring you closer. So we’ve been doing TikToks, we’ve been playing board games, we played spades, hearts, we’ve been in my studio writing songs together and freestyling, walking the dogs … It’s an amazing time for family because it’s kind of like a time out.”
When asked how many rolls of toilet paper he has in his home, Brady said he wasn’t sure because his mom taught him to stock up as a child, joking that they kept “50 toothbrushes” and “two closets of towels” in their home.