After all the wedding was a charade, Usher flew to his estranged mother Jonetta Patton 's house in the "A", surrounded by rumors that he couldn't go through with the ceremony without his momma. Foster, who is four months pregnant, followed (shadowed) him to Atlanta, telling People magazine she had a baby scare during the hectic weekend.

But sources close to Usher's family say she used the baby as a "ploy to get Usher to talk to her," and they are unsure whether there was a baby scare at all. She stupid, don't lie on the baby to get attention.

"Tameka is using a publicist and is trying to smooth this whole thing over in her favor," a friend told The News' Jo Piazza.

Says another source from the I-hate-Tameka side of this whole mess: "Usher wouldn't speak to Foster — and that's when she told him there were problems with the baby. She just wanted to get him to talk to her again."

The three (baby makes three) flew back to New York together this week.

"She made sure those magazines got their photo op with her and Usher after they left the Mandarin Oriental" yesterday, said the source.