Cecil Fielder told Schaap the estrangement began when his marriage with Stacy began to break up, with each blaming the other for recklessly spending the fortune Cecil made as a player. He says his wife turned their two children, Prince and his sister, Cecilynn, against him.
When you got a parent hammering that its going south and everything thats going south, and everything south, and your daddy did it . . . I had nothing to do with it, its your dads fault, Fielder told Schaap.
Fielder says it was wrong for his ex-wife to bring the children into their disagreements.
With her mashing, she wanted to involve those children and I told her, to this day, that was the wrong thing to do, Fielder said. And the fact that she let him think he was the man, Prince felt that he could talk to me any way that he wanted to at that point and I was like, Look dude . . . it aint going down like that.
