Niecy Nash: 'Never Been with a Woman Before' Marrying Jessica Betts
When she appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show earlier this month, Niecy Nash joked she "broke the internet" when she married singer Jessica Betts last August. "A lot of people say that, like, 'Oh, you came out!' and I say, 'Well, from out of where?' You know what I mean?" Nash said of her sexuality. "I wasn't anywhere to come out of. I wasn't living a sexually repressed life when I was married to men, I just loved them when I loved them. And now I love her."
And this week Nash elaborates on marriage and sexuality on Wednesday's premiere episode Facebook Watch's "Red Table Talk," Nash "discusses her recent marriage to wife Jessica Betts and how she fell in love with a woman after two marriages to men," reports People Magazine.
"In the sneak peek, Nash, 51, tells Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris that she'd 'never been with a woman before' Betts, who also appears on the episode."
She also disclosed the hilarious reactions of her three children — Dia, 21, Donielle, 25, and son Dominic, 28 — who she shares with her first husband Pastor Don Nash, after hearing about Betts.
"My daughters were like, 'Wait what?' "Nash recalls. "My youngest daughter, she reminded me, she was like, 'Wait a minute mom, are you the same mom that was like girl, I'm strictly dickly?' And I was like, 'Wah, wah. Like yeah, but no.'
"'And my son was like, 'Wooow,' the actress adds, as the rest of the group breaks out in laugher."
Nash was married twice previously, first to Don Nash, an ordained minister, for 13 years. They divorced in 2007. Her second was with Jay Tucker from 2011 to 2020.
Back in September she told People "[My marriage] has absolutely nothing to do with gender and it has everything to do with her soul. She is the most beautiful soul I have ever met in my life."
"I was not suppressing my sexuality my whole life," she adds of the her decision to marry Betts, which came as a shock to fans. "I love who I love. At one point in my life, I married twice and I love those people. And today I love this person. I've done everything I wanted to do on my own terms and my own way. So my choice now in a partner has nothing to do with who I've always been. It's a matter of who I am in this moment."