Brian Austin Green Reveals Private Romance With Tichina Arnold, Shares How Their Secrecy Impacted Him
Brian Austin Green is opening up about an private romance he had with Martin actress Tichina Arnold.
He spoke out about her wanting to keep their relationship a secret, and his feelings about this, on a new podcast episode. He was allegedly in his early 20s at the time. Today, Brian is 52 and Tichina is 56.
Keep reading to find out more…
“Tichina, she was doing Martin at the time when I was doing 90210. She was singing. I was producing. So, I became friends with her and Tisha [Campbell] quick. That was an easy friendship. Tisha’s amazing also,” he said on Dean Cole’s Funny Knowing You podcast. “So then Tichina started coming by the house and I was just playing beats, and I was like ‘Oh yeah, let’s work on some stuff.’ And we were doing that and then we ended up, because we were working together, we were around each other all the time, we just got along really well. So we ended up fooling around and kind of dating.”
“I think coming from Martin, she was very clear…she was very clear on day one that, ‘Nobody can know about this.’ So… I was in my early 20s, I was living in a culture that wasn’t accepting of me but there was no way to get out of it because that was just where my brain and my heart were,” he continued.
He said, “So I was really insecure and then I have someone who I’m really attracted to who’s telling me like, ‘you can’t tell anybody.’ I think for me it really triggered something, like, ‘I’m not really good enough for any of this. You don’t even want your friends to know that you’re hanging out with me.’”
About if he wanted to go public with it, he said, “I wanted to in the beginning for sure and then I quickly felt like, ‘Oh okay….I have to shut the f— up, you know, and sit in the back of the car like I’m happy to be in the car.”
He added that she and him attended Regina King‘s wedding together in Jamaica, but he still felt insecure. “And I then still felt insecure and weird out with her, and I had that thing of like people are looking at me funny, or they’re wondering, ‘Why the f— am I here or who does this guy think he is?’ So I was mind-f—ing myself during that time period.”
Tichina actually spoke out on an earlier episode of the same podcast about the end of their romance.
“I told him, I said, ‘The reason why we’ve come to the end of our road, because I know I see you dating all these Black women now, you’re dating me and you’re not going to end up with a Black woman,’” she said. “‘You’re going to share your riches and your legacy with someone White. And so I’m getting off this train.’”
She added, “He was a good human being. And I think in life I had to experience that, so I know what the other side is.”
There are so many celebrity couples we bet you forgot dated back in the day!