Alicia Keys told JET magazine that she is not a homewrecker as many have titled her since she dated Swizz Beats when he was still married to Mashonda:

[They] were apart for some time before we ever got together…that doesn’t  matter to those who take pleasure in trying to knock others down…there’s no need  to fight what’s not true…

I’d never met a person where I could be fully myself…Swizz and I live in each  other’s shadow. So we can occupy the same space and there is nothing but  equality. There’s something really powerful about that.