Tichina Arnold is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She is best known for her appearance in Martin, Ryan’s Hope, and Everybody Hates Chris.
Having yielded great talent and skills since a young age, she was a child prodigy in the acting field who worked her way over the years for being a big personality in the field as of now.
It was a long way back that she made it to the headlines after a scandalous work of her husband urged her to end the marriage between them for good, and she sets the time as now for her divorce proceedings to set in motion. Know more about her here!
Tichina Arnold Divorcing Husband Rico Hines After Sex Tape Scandal
The news goes back to the year around 2016. Tichina was married to a basketball coach, Rico Hines, in August 2012. They shared a beautiful five years of marriage until Tichina found out about her now-estranged-husband filmed a sex tape with another woman in early 2016.
With no hesitations, Tichina immediately acted from her side with the decision to split from him. And she has finally acted upon it after a full five and a half years filing a divorce with her estranged husband.
Recently this week, she forwarded the case in the court, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for divorce. The pair does not have any minor children, and Arnold further asked the court to block spousal support to either of them, as per the court documents obtained by TMZ.
At the time, the scandalous tape also reached the hands of the public, to which Arnold commented on while talking to PEOPLE in July 2016 saying that “no one from my side” leaked the video though she shared it with some of her very close circle of friends while announcing their split.
She further exclaimed her feeling of being “betrayed” by the very person with who she slept together “every night.” Arnold continued saying that he was unfaithful during their marriage. Despite having a few mistakes while in their marriage, Arnold coped up with it while reconciling over time, but she could no longer stand it at the time. She explained,
“There’s a point where you eventually have to jump ship and save yourself, so I just merely saved myself and represented a lot of women that don’t know how to save themselves.”
As of now, their marriage is turning into a dead-end.
Tichina Arnold Relationship Details
As aforementioned on the topic prior, Tichina was married to Rico Hines for about four years until they split after Arnold found out about the scandalous sex tape filmed by Hines with another woman.
The rest of the proceedings of their relationship took a long time, but it finally came after all as Arnold finally filed the paperwork for divorce in court after five and a half years of their split.
Tichina married her second husband, the professional basketball coach Rico Hines in 2012 at Honolulu, Hawaii, after five months of their engagement. Unfortunately, their marriage ended messy, which can be referred to as quite the ugly history of their relationship as far as Rico taping himself cheating on her then-wife Tichina.
Prior to Hines, she has previously linked with several men. She married professional boxer Lamon Brewster in 1991, which ended with them divorcing just four years after their union.
She then dated her then-boyfriend Carvin Haggins for about three years, which even brought the couple a daughter named Alijah in 2004. But they eventually broke up when Arnold stood up as a single mother to raise her only daughter.
The mother and daughter share such a lovely relationship and occasionally poses together for a photo. One of them was Tichina posing with her 5-year-old daughter in 2009 in front of the home she grew up in at Jamica Queens, New York.
Net Worth Of Tichina Arnold And Her Career
With her incredible performances over the years on-screen, Tichina Arnold has been applauded many times and earned her big personality in the acting field. Subsequently, she also earned a fortune of wealth from her professional career as an actress, singer, and any other ventures, which is noted to be $2 million as per CelebrityNetWorth.
While she remains a prominent actress, also being a singer herself, Arnold has also have entered the business world by launching her own company China Moon Rags. The headgear, one of the products from the company, sold highly during the 2000s which was even purchased by big celebrities like Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson, Beyonce, to name a few.
Tichina was talented and skillful enough since a very tender age to involve herself in the acting and singing field. She appeared with small roles in several productions and films like Hard Times, The Brass Ring, and such until her breakthrough came in 1987 when she portrayed Zena Brown in the soap opera Ryan’s Hope. She received quite a critical acclaim among the viewers of the soap opera at the time.
Following this success, she played one of her career’s prominent roles as Pamela James in the sitcom Martin. Other of her TV shows and films appearances include One on One, Everybody Hates Chris, The Lena Baker Story, Happily Divorced, and much more.
Significantly, she has also been honored with nominations in several award ceremonies and even awarded some of them. She won the 1996’s Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the sitcom Martin, and another one in the 2006’s Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for Everybody Hates Chris.
As for her singing career, she co-wrote and sang a duet, Movin Up, along with her high school friend Inaya Day, which charted the number 2 position on the Billboard Countdown.