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Actress Tichina Arnold separated from her husband Rico Hines 5 years ago amid a sex tape scandal of him and another woman. At the time she said she sent the video to family and friends to let them know what was going on in their relationship and why they were separating. She went on to say that no one on her side leaked the video and when she saw it in the public, she felt “betrayed.”
“I had that feeling of, you know, beyond him being my husband, this is supposed to be my friend, my confidant,” she told PEOPLE after announcing separation in 2016. “Somebody who I can trust. And when you can’t trust the person that you sleep with every night, there’s a problem. I could no longer trust him. I could no longer lay with him. And it doesn’t make him a horrible person. We all make mistakes, but not with me and not on my time and not in my life.”
She’s gone on to call him a serial cheater saying, “It’s beyond the fact that the infidelity, it happens,” Arnold explained. “We make mistakes. And we fixed a few mistakes of his prior infidelities. But when it becomes a pattern, then it’s no longer my problem. There’s a point where you eventually have to jump ship and save yourself, so I just merely saved myself and represented a lot of women that don’t know how to save themselves.”
The couple that married in 2012 in Hawaii were confirmed by a rep of Arnold’s that they were divorcing. The unfortunate part here is Arnold is 52 and this was pretty much all of her 40s with this man. As for moving forward dating and getting married, in her 2016 People Magazine interview , she said “Oh no! Getting married is not gonna happen again. I know that for sure. Like, this was my second marriage. I always say three strikes, you’re out. I don’t even want to make it to three strikes.”
