Brian Austin Green spoke out for the first time about his interracial relationship with “Martin” star Tichina Arnold in the 1990s.
During an appearance on Deon Cole‘s podcast, “Funny Knowing You”, Brian said Tichina forced him to keep their romance a secret.
The “Beverly Hills, 90210” star told Deon on Wednesday that he and the Tichina met while “working together” and they “got along really well.”
“I was watching when you had Tichina on here and you were talking to her. First of all, let me preface by saying I love Tichina,” he told Deon.
Brian said they had “common interests” because he was dating majority Black women in the 1990s.
“Hip-hop was my world. I was doing hip-hop clubs. I was going to all the places where hip-hop was existing… You usually date the people that you’re around.”
Brian said he became “insecure” when Tichina was “very clear on day one” that no one “could know” they were “fooling around.”
“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.”
Brian said Tichina made him feel like he wasn’t “good enough” to be seen out in public with her.
“I have someone who I’m attracted to who’s telling me, like, ‘You can’t tell anybody,'” he continued. “I think, for me, it really triggered something like, ‘Oh, OK. I’m not good enough for any of this. You don’t even want your friends to know that you’re hanging out with me.'”
Tichina opened up about dating Brian in her own appearance on Deon’s podcast 2 weeks ago.
“It was nice,” she said of her only interracial dating experience. “He was different.”
She said she dumped Brian because she knew he would end up sharing his wealth with a white woman.
“I told him, I said the reason we’ve come to the end of our road [is] because, I see you dating all these Black women, now you’re dating me, and you’re not gonna end up with a Black woman,” she said. “You’re gonna share your riches and your legacy with someone white. And so I’m getting off this train.”
The bisexual “Everybody Hates Chris” star, who previously dated female rapper MC Lyte, said she’s now attracted to Black men only.
“I really love Black men. I’m just attracted to Black men. Like, that’s my natural – it comes down to everything. Just the pheromones, the smell, everything. The everything!”
