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Report: Boozer dated reality TV actress

Published Jan. 26, 2011 12:00 a.m. ET

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Michelle Money, one of 10 remaining women vying for the heart of Brad Womack on the ABC TV show "The Bachelor," claims Chicago Bulls star Carlos Boozer lied and said he was single when she had a relationship with him, Life & Style magazine reported Wednesday.

Money, 30, said she hooked up with the NBA player early in 2009 while he was playing for the Utah Jazz and still married to his wife CeCe. Money, a single mother and actress, now claims Boozer, 29, led her to believe he was separated from his wife, though he did not file for divorce until March 2009.

"I should never have been so naive to assume what I was told was true," she told the celebrity gossip magazine.

"I'm not trying to shy away from the fact that he was still married. I don't put that on Carlos. I don't put that on anyone but myself. I feel terrible for CeCe for that pain she's had to go through and that I am a part of it," she added about the mother of Boozer's three children.

Boozer and Money ultimately split in June 2009.

Boozer, who played for Duke, was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the 2002 NBA draft. He moved on to play for the Utah Jazz from 2004 to 2010 and joined the Chicago Bulls in July 2010.