Wedding bells are ringing for Tiffany Haddish.
During a vacation to Africa with some gal pals, the actress and comedian had a surprise wedding ceremony – and married herself.
“I thought to do that because first, I wanted to have a little party,” Haddish, 45, exclusively told The Post “Second, I also wanted to hold myself accountable for some things.”
The “Girls Trip” star went on a real-life girls trip through Africa with her four best friends in the new Peacock docuseries “Tiffany Haddish Goes Off,” premiering Nov. 13.
She explained that to her friends and to “the world,” it might look like she’s doing well, but there are “things that I have not been honoring, for me.”
Haddish is coming off a stint that included two DUI related arrests in 2022 and 2023. The actress also received backlash on social media in 2024 when she posted a TikTok during her Africa trip, marveling at the fact that Zimbabwe had a grocery store.
“I feel like it was just like a constant attack on her when she didn’t have any bad intent,” her friend Sparkle Clark, who appears on the show, told The Post.
“I just talked to Tiffany and I was like, ‘I think that before you post [on social media] you should call us or talk to us about it first,’” she recalled. “Tiffany is not this person who they make her out to be. She really has a kind heart.”
Haddish said that getting social media backlash feels “like walking on a Lego.”
“I’ve got to be more careful about what I post,” she noted. “It’s irritating, but it’s a part of the business.”
In the series, Haddish travels with her childhood friends, Selena Martin, Shermona Long, and Clark through locations including Zimbabwe and Cape Town, South Africa.
Their friendships pre-date her fame.
“What an honor that these women have gone on this life journey with me since we were little girls. But also it’s a testament to how awesome we all are at communication. I think a lot of friendships fall apart because they don’t communicate,” Haddish told The Post.
She recalled a time she did a radio interview, and one of her friends called a week later to tell her that she’d been “hurtful.”
“We’re gonna talk about it. We have conversations and [it leads to] much growth. So to be able to go to Africa together is something that I’ve been talking about for years.”
She quipped that her “bad” friends “didn’t make it” and “didn’t get to go on a trip.”
Her close pals, however, were in attendance for her impromptu marriage ceremony — to “herself.”
Haddish was previously married to William Stewart from 2008 to 2013, and she was in a relationship with rapper Common, 53, from 2020 to 2021.
“This marriage to me has been going very good. We have been having a fantastic time seeing who our third is going to be,” Haddish joked to The Post. “Who is gonna be the third wheel?”
Haddish is also close with comedian Kevin Hart, as she has previously talked about how he gave her money to rent a hotel room during a period in her life when she was homeless and living in her car.
When asked if she told friends like Hart that she is now “married,” she quipped, “you just told him.”
“It’s not everybody’s business that I’m in a relationship with me. I mean, first of all, my relationship with me is my relationship…So I haven’t told everybody,” she went on. “Sometimes I wear my wedding ring and people are like, ‘Oh, my God, where did you get that?’ I’m like ‘Africa. I’m married!’”
Haddish said that it’s had a surprising impact on her dating life.
“I’m getting more dates now, when I tell [men] I’m married. If you tell a man you’re married, but you’re willing to go out with him, he’s like, ‘Oh, she’s a freak!’”
The Emmy-winning actress said that she does think the marriage is “important.”
“If you going to keep any promises in life, the promises you make to yourself are the main ones you need to be keeping. That’s the longest relationship you’re going to have, and there’s no ceremony for you, to you. There’s no ceremony for that,” she explained. “So, f–k it, I’m marrying me.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
