Terry McMillan’s hairstylist ex-husband, Jonathan Plummer, has signed a book deal with Simon & Schuster for a fictionalized tell-all account based on his relationship with the author of the best-seller “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”.
McMillan filed for divorce from Plummer in January 2005 following 6 1/2 years of marriage. That was not long after Plummer — 23 years her junior — disclosed he was gay and had been cheating on her.
Life for McMillan is anything but groovy these days. She says she’s afraid to leave her home and accuses Plummer of trying to bleed her for money and threatening to release embarrassing anti-gay slurs she left on his answering machine if she doesn’t go along.
Plummer acknowledged that he had left a phone message asking for money — but insists it was simply one last attempt to put their feuding behind them.
Plummer works in a hair salon just 10 minutes from McMillan’s house and is also working on his book, “Balancing Act,” with a former New York Daily News reporter, Karen Hunter. It is scheduled for release this summer.
“A black woman scorned is the worst kind of scorn — and I’ve felt it from Terry,” Plummer said. “That’s why I’m doing this (book) — to help (black men who have come out of the closet) and to give my spin on things.”