Tisha Campbell opens up about struggles following divorce and bankruptcy: ‘I had $21 in my pocket’

Tisha Campbell is “good” now, though she remembers a time when she may barely afford Christmas presents for her kids. 

Throughout a latest look on “The Breakfast Membership,” which arrived a 12 months after she and her ex-husband lastly closed out their chapter case, the 56-year-old actress and mom of two shared extra perception into her latest monetary hassle stemming from her divorce. 

When requested by host Charlamagne tha God a couple of state of affairs through which she had little or no money in her pocket post-divorce and amid chapter, Campbell stated, “The story was I had $21 in my pocket and a knife price $7 and I wished to pay for the knife. It was Christmas and I had a option to attempt to get some further toys for my children on the Ceremony Assist or one thing.” 

Campbell, who was married to actor Duane Martin from 1996 to 2020 and shares two sons, Xen Whaheed, 23, and Ezekiel Czar, 15, with him, lately closed out a chapter case with Martin in July 2024 that started in 2016. 

“I believe it’s a lifetime of stuff and I don’t actually perceive how we went by means of the chapter, truthfully,” she stated, when requested if closing the chapter allowed her to maneuver on. “I used to be type of separated from it, so I don’t actually understand how we received by means of it, but it surely actually is simply taking your self exterior of it and hold it transferring ahead.”

“I received children, man. I received two children, one has ADHD, the opposite one received autism, two separate points, and I simply hold transferring ahead,” she continued. “I can’t look backwards. I can’t. So I simply don’t.”

In 2018, after over 20 years collectively, Campbell filed for divorce from Martin.

“After 27 years of being collectively and two wonderful kids, it pains me to announce that I’ve filed for divorce,” she stated on the time, per Individuals journal. 

In 2020, when the divorce was finalized, she dropped Martin from her identify and returned to simply Campbell. 

Whereas on “The Breakfast Membership,” DJ Envy famous that there is usually a false impression about profitable, booked, and busy actresses like her that they hardly ever expertise hardship, if in any respect. 

“I don’t actually take note of the group noise,” she defined. “I can’t, I can’t afford it. And the best way that I take a look at life, it’s like a soccer recreation. Like whoever’s on the sphere operating with me and received that ball with me or operating the sphere with me, I’m good.”

She added, “I don’t take note of the cheerleaders, these are the pretend pals. I don’t take note of the group noise as a result of they’re there, that’s their job to boo and to cheer. So I can’t take note of any of it. I’ve to simply block it out and hold transferring ahead.”