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Tashera Simmons has revealed that the jailed rapper DMX fathered four children outside of their marriage.

Talking to Vibe magazine, the divorced couple says that she's moving on from their relationship and will be starring in a new reality show and is releasing a 'tell-all' book called 'Tashera Simmons...Strength of A Woman'.

In the interview, Simmons reveals that she knew about one of the children, who lives in Maryland. DMX was also forced to pay out $1.5m in damages to the child's mother as he told Sister 2 Sister magazine that she had "raped him" to get herself pregnant.

Simmons also admits that she chose to stay with her husband but decided to leave as she became overwhelmed by the amount of child support cases that were being filed against him.

She told Vibe: "He had four other children out of our marriage and I didn't know. I only found out about one, and it was the one in Maryland that was public. It was all over the news and I still was gonna try to make it work [but] after we did the show Soul of a Man, I guess the women felt some kind of way because he was doing a lot of paying child support behind my back and giving them money without me knowing anything. So once he came out in interviews saying this is my only daughter and this is my family I guess they started feeling some kind of way and they started sending lawyers and all these child support suits to my house and that wasn't acceptable. I just felt like with the drugs, that in itself is mentally draining. I felt like since we've been together for so long I didn't want to give up on him.”

DMX is currently in prison serving a sentence - he's not the only rapper to have been in trouble with the law....