When news broke of Usher filing for divorce in June, Tameka Foster Raymond, his estranged wife, says she learned of the filing like many others — online.

“It was rumoured [on the internet], so friends and family called, saying, ‘Are you okay?’ I didn’t really understand why,” Foster-Raymond tells PEOPLE. “But Usher and I weren’t really speaking then. He was away recording, and I was angry at other things going on. He filed two days later.”

Now that Usher is back on the charts with a song titled “Papers,”a near scathing record discussing a divorce; relationship with his mother; and fans, the estranged wife says “it’s entertainment”.
“It’s entertainment. People shouldn’t take it literally. [But] given what we’re going through, it’s in poor taste.”