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- Donna Kelce correctly guessed her ex-husband’s reaction to a hypothetical parenting scenario
- Travis Kelce was hilariously caught off guard by his mom revealing him as a bigger trouble maker than Jason
- Donna and Ed were married for roughly 25 years before divorcing
Donna Kelce knows her ex-husband Ed well.
During a special appearance with her sons Jason and Travis Kelce on their podcast New Heights, Donna proved that she could perfectly predict Ed and his parenting style.
Travis, 35, and Jason, 37, had Donna listen to a listener’s voicemail asking for advice with her five-year-old daughter. A 22-year-old woman called in and told the Kelces that her daughter “keeps going around telling people in Walmart, or anywhere we go, that I stole her.”
The caller said she keeps getting “weird glances” and is wondering how she can “fix” the issue.
Donna said, “Oh man,” upon hearing the woman’s ordeal, but before she could offer her advice, Travis said, “Dad said that it would have been me doing that. Can you please tell the world who it really would’ve been?”
Without missing a beat, Donna said, “It would’ve been you,” prompting both of her sons to burst into laughter.
Travis asked, “What do you think Ed Kelce would have said in this moment? If I was at the grocery store and I was telling everybody that he stole me?”
Donna predicted, “He would say, ‘F—,’ you know, like, ‘Knock it off,’ and he would say, ‘I’ll give you something to cry about.’ ”
Her premonition turned out to be nearly word-for-word, and the New Heights social media accounts cut the clip to flashback to a moment earlier this year, when the brothers played Ed the same voicemail and got his take.
“What would my reaction be? ‘Shut the f— up,’ ” Ed said, to laughter from his sons.
Donna and Ed married in the ’70s and welcomed their first son, Jason, in 1987. Two years later, Travis arrived, making them a family of four. The brothers were raised in Cleveland Heights, Ohio before both playing football at the University of Cincinnati.
Over the course of their 25-year marriage, Donna and Ed faced issues, but “decided that we would be married throughout the entire time that the kids were in the house,” Donna said on an episode of The Martha Stewart Podcast that aired in May 2024,
Ultimately, the couple decided to divorce after both sons graduated from college.
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Donna and Ed opened up about choosing to stay together for as long as they did in the 2023 documentary Kelce, which followed Jason through his decision to play another season with the Philadelphia Eagles before he announced his retirement in 2024.
“If we had split as we probably both would have preferred, that would have been a nightmare with the logistics, getting kids where they had to be and providing all the support,” Ed explained in the film.
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