Struggle Tisha Campbell Blames Duane Martin For Leaving The Marriage With Only $7

Struggle Tisha Campbell Blames Duane Martin For Leaving The Marriage With Only $7

Actress Tisha Campbell is an open book when it comes to discussing the past turmoils she had in her personal life and in her professional career. She's best known for playing Gina Waters-Payne on Martin and for starring as Jay Marie Johnson-Kyle on My Wife and Kids. While the final season of Martin earned a lot of attention and viewership on its own in 1997, it was the lawsuit between Tisha and Martin Lawrence (who played the titular character and Gina's husband) that made even more headlines. The recent Soul Train Awards co-host opened up about how her 2018 divorce from Duane Martin nearly left her broke and how she patched up her friendship with her fellow Martin star, Martin Lawrence, after their legal issues. Read on to find out what she had to say and for a refresher on her legal battles. n 1996, when the final season of Martin was set to begin airing, Tisha married fellow actor Duane Martin (whose last name has no affiliation with the Fox comedy). She hyphenated her last name, and she became known personally and professionally as Tina Campbell-Martin. The pair subsequently appeared on Tisha's comedy series, Rita Rocks, together for several episodes. Tisha and Duane had two sons together, Xen and Ezekiel, before officially splitting in 2018. Their divorce soon turned acrimonious, and their financial and personal issues played out in court. The couple went through bankruptcy during their split, and Tisha accused her ex of hiding a mansion from her under a company name. Will Smith reportedly loaned Duane between $1.4 million and $1.5 million to allow him to save the home from foreclosure. In an interview with Kevin Frazer from Entertainment Tonight, Tisha explained that the circumstances of her divorce were much direr than the public ever knew. She shared that she left her marriage with virtually zero to live on. "Nothing. No one knows that but I had nothing. Nothing in the bank. Nothing," she said when asked what she took from the divorce proceedings. "I had maybe $7 to my name, and I was scared. It was like I was starting all over." Though Tisha said she struggled financially in the midst of her divorce, she's since taken on several high profile projects. Besides hosting the Soul Train Awards, Tisha starred on the first and only season of Outmatched in 2019. She also has an upcoming series in the works with Charlie's Angels and Elementary alum, Lucy Liu. In addition to getting public attention for her tumultuous divorce, Tisha previously went through a public lawsuit with her former co-star. Why did Tisha Campbell sue Martin? While the final season of Martin was airing in 1997, Tisha sued her on-screen husband for sexual harassment and abuse on and off the set. Around the same time as Tisha's lawsuit, Martin's estranged wife, Patricia Southall, also accused him in court of drug abuse and abuse toward her. She sought a temporary restraining order against him after he filed for divorce in 1996. According to People, Tisha quit the Fox series after learning about Martin's issues with his wife.

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