Rapper MC Lyte appeared on The Real on Feb. 21 and opened up about her pending divorce from John Wyche.

She told the talk show’s hosts that she was still going through her divorce more than one year after filing, which came as a surprise.

“When the press got a hold of it, I think people thought we were [divorced]. I had just filed and so we’re still going through it right now.”

She added that she felt distraught during the beginning phase of her divorce and tried to make the marriage work. Lyte also noted that egos often played a part in couples not divorcing when they were unhappy.

“I feel like there are phases whenever a relationship is ending whether you’re married or not,” said the recording artist. “It’s that first phase of, ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to make this work for us.’ Then it’s like, ‘Oh my God I’ve got to make this work for everybody else involved….It’s hard in the beginning but you realize to have happiness doesn’t mean you have to remain together and it doesn’t mean that you are a failure because the marriage failed. It’s all ego. You just have to be able to let go.”

While she would have loved to be married as she lives her life, she noted that she can spend more time focusing on herself and her career.

“I would have loved for there to be marriage along with that but because it didn’t work, it just gives me that much more time to put into those areas,” she said.

The rapper posted a tweet back in 2017 during her relationship with her soon-to-be-ex.

“Love is in the air! @Essence #Jamaica #Yamon.”

She revealed on The Real

that the divorce was taking a long time because her husband didn’t want to sign the divorce papers. MC Lyte and Wyche were married in 2017.