Aaron Pierre is Teyana Taylor‘s “prize” and “apple pie.”
The singer and star of One Battle After Another recently appeared on Sherri to discuss her leading man and leading role. Following her divorce from Iman Shumpert, Taylor gushed over her new love.
Host Sherri Shepherd teased, “Aaron Pierre was our fantasy,” and for Taylor, he was hers, too. “Luther said, ‘Never too much,’” she quipped about how well it’s going between them. She even broke out into song. “Never too much apple pie,” Taylor joked.
On a more serious note, the Escape Room singer confessed, “I feel good. It feels good to feel good.” Taylor then offered up some advice to single women on their own journey for love: “I think the most important thing is— no matter where you come from, whether it’s a heartbreak or whatever, I think the best thing is to be willing to love unarmored. If you’re willing to come with a wall built, it’ll block your blessings, and who that [new] person may not be what that [old] person was.”
Regarding her own path in love, Taylor shared, “I walk a straight line unarmored and I walk a straight line ready to receive whatever is mine to hold.”
Later in the segment, Shepherd asked Taylor about working with Leonardo DiCaprio, particularly for their steamy sex scenes. In regard to that, Taylor called it a “job.”
She laughed and said, “Babe, did you see my apple pie? My eyes is on my prize!” Shepherd praised Taylor’s loyalty to her man.
Taylor added, “When I step on set, I’m here to do a job. I’m a team player. We’re all players on this team and we’re here to win. We’re here to make magic. [It’s like] when the whistle blows, it’s time to get to work and I get to work. Then, I go my a** home.”
She noted that both she and Pierre are “very secure,” explaining, “When we know what the prize is, we’re not worried about if anybody is stepping outside of that prize tryna look for another one. We’re not worried about that. I have a very secure support system, and so does he, and I think that’s all it’s about. Understanding that this is work and this is love.”
Watch more from their chat below.
