Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson dropped some fairly unexpected news during a Q&A with San Diego pastor Miles McPherson on Sunday (July 5): It turns out that he and his girlfriend Ciara, who have been dating since late April, are practicing abstinence for religious reasons.
“I met this girl named Ciara who is the most beautiful woman in the world. She is the most kind person, the most engaging person, everything I could ever want,” Wilson said. “And I’ll never forget she was on tour and I was looking at her in the mirror, sitting in her dressing room and God spoke to me and said, ‘I need you to lead her.’
“I told her, ‘What would you do if we took all that ‘extra stuff’ off the table, and just did it Jesus’ way?’” the quarterback continued, clarifying that yes, he was “talking about sex.”
“For me, I knew that God brought me into her life to bless her and for her to bless me,” he said.
Wilson also said the 29-year-old singer “completely agreed,” though he admitted that refraining from sex wasn’t easy. “I ain’t gonna lie to y’all now — I need you to pray for us,” he told the congregation. “I know y’all have seen her on the screen. If there’s a 10, she’s a 15.”
