Tyler Perry Talks Baby and Delivery Room; 'You Got to Pray for Me'
Tyler Perry is preparing to become a father and in a recent interview shared his excitement and alluded to his slight nerves.
The entertainment mogul is expecting his first child with Gelila Bekele and he spoke about whether he will be in the delivery room when the model goes into labor. Perry, 45, is currently promoting his latest film "Gone Girl" in which he plays a defense attorney.
"I don't know," he said recently on "The Today Show." "You got to pray for me on that! I don't know."
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The actor, who is notoriously private when it comes to his private life, shared that he is "very happy" about Bekele's pregnancy news.
"Yes and we're very, very happy. She's very excited and so am I, so it's going to be good," he said.
Perry and Bekele are rumored to be expecting a baby boy after the actor alluded to the baby's gender in another interview. The acclaimed filmmaker praised God for his unborn blessing.
"The greatest gift I'm being given right now is the opportunity to give the little boy in me everything I never had, so that's what I'm excited about," he told Extra. "This beautiful human being that God has allowed to come into my life for me to get to know, because they come with their own personalities, who they are, to shepherd and usher him… [pause] I said 'him'...Oops!"
He shared his plans to slow down his work load in a bid to focus on fatherhood as he plans to be a hands-on father.
"I already have. I slowed down on film for a while and I'm just working on telelvision, which allows me time to be home and slow things down, which is very important right now," he said.
Perry, who is a Christian, once credited his faith for much of his success, saying "[faith] is all over" the work that he does "[because] I don't know how to do any of this without my faith."
"It is extremely important. I am a Christian, I am a believer, and I know had I not been a person of faith, I couldn't be here in this place," he once told Beliefnet. "I wouldn't be walking the path that I'm on now. And I think the greater good of the path I'm on now is to teach people to learn to forgive and move on, in a way that's done through the healing power of humor."
