Niecy Nash definitely had one birthday to recollect.
On Friday, March 13, the 56-year-old actress celebrated her Feb. 23 birthday with a belated Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls era-themed bash in Los Angeles that introduced out the likes of Ava DuVernay, Winnie Harlow, Kandi Burruss, Jasmine Crockett, Bozoma Saint John, June Ambrose, her Oscar-nominated “All’s Honest” costar Teyana Taylor, and lots extra.
“A• Time • Was • Had,” the “Claws” alum wrote within the caption of a publish on Instagram that included a carousel of pictures from the star-studded perform. “A lot enjoyable!”
In a number of of the photographs, the actress posed in a black lace-up costume model of Jordan’s well-known #23 Chicago Bulls jersey and a bedazzled pair of crimson, black, and white Jordans, alongside her partner Betts, and lots of family and friends members participating within the festivities.
Whereas she was all smiles in the course of the belated festivities, they stood in stark distinction to how she spent her precise birthday. In accordance with her, she journeyed to Mexico solely to be caught within the crosshairs of the latest cartel violence within the nation.
On Feb. 25, two days after her Feb. 23 birthday, the 56-year-old actress revealed in an Instagram publish that she was lastly residence after getting caught up within the crosshairs of latest cartel violence in Mexico following the killing of Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the chief of the Jalisco New Technology Cartel on Feb. 22 .
“FINALLY‼️ Residence from Puerto Vallarta 😳Went to rejoice my bday with my household, and received caught up within the cartel assaults,” the “All’s Honest” star wrote.
She added that the video that includes herself, her mom, her three kids, their shut pals, and her partner Jessica Betts, was posted as a “thanks” to everybody who “coated us in prayer, despatched properly needs, made calls to the US Embassy and shared your connects to get us out!”
“Challenges for positive confirmed up BUT GOD! 🙏🏾 Black individuals are so resilient! One factor for positive, two issues for sure We. Will. Hold. Our. JOY! Within the center that packed airport the place so many have been pissed off over cancelled flights, lengthy traces, and minimal seating , our pleasure was on full show!” she wrote.
Talking to Folks journal at her get together, she described the expertise as “scary.”
“It was scary as a result of I let my children convey their pals,” she defined. “So I had different individuals’s kids. It was scary, however we received out unscathed … because of the Most Excessive.”
She added, “That’s why you need to take each second to rejoice pleasure, rejoice life, all of the issues.”
