Niecy Nash-Betts married her spouse Jessica Betts in August 2020 in an intimate yard ceremony officiated by actor Colman Domingo. The day stands in stark distinction to her different two weddings.
Throughout an look on “At present With Jenna & Mates” on Tuesday, the 55-year-old actress opened up about ultimately discovering her “soulmate” after two earlier marriages.
“I’ve been to the massive present thrice,” joked the “Grotesquerie” star, who was married beforehand to Jay Tucker from 2011 to 2020 and earlier than that, to Don Nash, from 1994 to 2007.
Whereas she stated her first wedding ceremony with Don in 1994 was conventional, one thing removed from standard wedding ceremony actions befell.
“I nearly obtained in a combat proper earlier than we walked down the aisle,” she stated.
“The groom’s ex-girlfriend got here to [the wedding],” she defined, a lot to co-host Jenna Bush’s shock. “And I used to be like crawl beneath this crinoline and take my footwear off, you recognize what I imply? I used to be like, ‘You’ll not come to my wedding ceremony and begin a large number.’”
The “Claws” alum recalled that her second wedding ceremony with Tucker, which was televised for the 2011 actuality TV particular “Niecy Nash’s Wedding ceremony Bash,” was, in a phrase, “annoying.” In the meantime, the Emmy winner gushed about how intimate her third wedding ceremony, which befell in August 2020, was.
“I married the best love of my life in my yard with 24 folks,” she stated.
Nevertheless, even her third wedding ceremony didn’t go off fully and not using a hitch. When Domingo arrived to officiate the ceremony, Nash-Betts recalled him exhibiting up wearing a weird yellow and black match.
“I by no means forgave him for that,” she teased. “He simply regarded like a lovely bumblebee. However I stated not for… you’re my officiant. You don’t obtained black slacks laying round?”
When Bush Hager requested what she did when he obtained there carrying the look, Nash-Betts stated she informed him he regarded a “idiot.”
“And now he’s a vogue guru,” she exclaimed. “How come that didn’t occur earlier than my wedding ceremony?” Colman Domingo is taken into account one of the crucial stylist folks in Hollywood. In 2025, he served as a co-chair, amongst others, for the Met Gala.
Regardless of the style fake pas, the intimate wedding ceremony day has led to 5 fruitful years collectively that stand aside from her earlier two marriages in a serious means.
“The primary two instances I used to be married, I used to be married to males and now I’m married to a lady. And I don’t assume it’s in regards to the gender that makes it particular. It’s simply, I met my soulmate,” she stated whereas appearing as a visitor co-host on the present. “I wasn’t dwelling a sexually repressed life the place I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I actually wish to be married to a lady.’ No, I simply met essentially the most stunning soul.”
“I by no means thought I might be part of the neighborhood. I used to be adjoining. I used to be an ally, however now I’m a card-carrying member,” she declared.
