8 Black Celebrities Who Have Opened Up About Being Unhoused - Page 5

5. Tiffany Haddish

Breaking into the entertainment industry is not an easy feat, and many (now successful) celebrities faced severe hard times before their big break, including Tiffany Haddish who previously lived in her car. 

“We were doing these sketch shows at the Laugh Factory and Kevin [Hart] was coming up there. It was like every Wednesday night, I would show up late. I didn’t want nobody to see my car,” Haddish explained in an interview on This Life of Mine With James Corden in 2024.

“I would park a little further away or I would pull up and let the valet take the car, but I would pull up late so nobody would see it. One day I pulled up and Kevin pulled up just in front of me and I was like, ‘Damn. Maybe I should pull up,’ and he’s like looking at me. He’s like, ‘Haddish, what’s all this stuff in your car? What’s going on? You homeless or something?’ I’m like, ‘Ah, I’m just in between houses right now,'” she recalled.

After confessing to Hart that she was indeed without a place to stay, she revealed that the fellow comedian gave her $300 to get her “a place to stay for a month.”