Based on her track record and both their stories, she played this dude like 2K.
The Hill Harper story is the clincher. All the moves in this story are textbook.
Women like Sherri spend their youth trying to date types instead of people, and they pass up good dudes.
She ends up chunky, middle-aged and not a dime, but she's got a bag.
She intentionally looked for a dude that she could control with money.
She called the shots. Quit your job, move out here, I'll get you put on in the industry, no sex before marriage, but I want a normal baby, so we getting married. Now.
Anybody else would have been like

but she probably love bombed this soft belly nikka and he fell for it.
It would have worked but she couldn't get pregnant, which the female equivalent of having ED.
That took a huge shyt on her already low self-esteem, so she blamed him for all of it.
The surrogacy was her idea, but it just made her feel even shyttier to see the other chick with the round belly and pregnant glow.
So she decided to bail, and the only way to make it seem like she's not the bad guy is to make him the bad guy.
She told everybody that he was a scammer, a gold digger and was trying to live off her, and everyone believed that shyt, because why wouldn't they?
She's successful and he's not, and women don't lie about these kinda things, do they?
She stuck this nikka with a baby and wasn't gonna give him jack shyt until the court forced her to, then she blackballed him in the industry and to the public.
He's not getting no hoes, no career looks and he's a single father.
He needs to get every dime he can outta her deadbeat ass.