During his interview with Shannon Sharpe on Club Shay Shay, Terry Crews answered a question on folks questioning his wife’s racial identity.
Crews revealed that his wife grew up in a Black home with a Black mom and a white dad in Gary, Indiana–a mainly Black city.
“She’s black, yes, Black momma white daddy and been raised like that, but again, just cause she don’t have that kind of look, her momma is Black. She’s from Gary, Indiana, bruh. My wife was Miss Gary, Indiana 1984. And Gary, Indiana is like Flint. Ain’t nothing but Black people. And she was raised in Black culture, so it wasn’t like she was raised in the outskirts.”
Terry Crews Is Used To The Questions
Terry Crews and his wife have been married for almost 40 years, and he’s had to get used to the criticism over the years.
According to Complex, Crews also loves how his wife never takes the criticism personally.
“This is what I admire about her. It never bothered her; she was like, ‘I love Black people, and even if some feel that I’m white, I understand it.’… Wow, and it’s deep to me.”
“That’s the way I had to start thinking because I would always get angry. But to watch her, the way she dealt with things peacefully, like ‘I’m not gonna go there. You know what? That’s trauma that they had to deal with, and I understand it. But I love them anyway.'”
Terry Crews and his wife got hitched in 1989 and have five kids and one grandkid.