Jaden Ivey returned to Instagram Live on Monday, just days after the Chicago Bulls waived him, but his wife, Caitlyn Newton, really didn’t want to join him on camera.
During the livestream, the former Bulls guard spoke with followers while Newton stood nearby in the background. As Ivey turned the camera toward her, she could be heard saying, “Please stop.”
“She loves me. She loves God. She obeys God,” Ivey said.
Jaden Ivey: “I got my wife here.”
— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) April 7, 2026
Wife: “Please stop.”
Ivey: “She loves me. She loves God”
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The appearance came less than a week after the Bulls released the 24-year-old, citing “conduct detrimental to the team” after anti-LGBTQ+ comments he made during an earlier livestream.
In the days after the controversy, Ivey claimed Newton had stopped speaking to him.
“That’s why my wife in here, and she not even texting me,” he said during another stream. “Those who are around me, those who are my family members betraying me because of what I spoke.”
Newton later disputed that account in a post on Instagram.
“We were communicating all morning of that day,” she wrote. “People say things for attention, do not be deceived.”
She added, “If you know me you know I have never once abandoned that man through all the trials and I still haven’t now.”
NEW: Jaden Ivey says it is sinful for a man to lie with another man, says no one can stop him from speaking the truth.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 1, 2026
Ivey accused the Bulls of lying when they claimed his conduct was "detrimental" to the team.
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Ivey and Newton met while attending Purdue University and married in 2022. They share three children together.