Mo’Nique and her husband Sidney Hicks have modified lots since they first met again in highschool, and their relationship has grown proper together with them.
The comic candidly mentioned her relationship in an expansive new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, calling Hicks, who can be her supervisor, “the perfect supervisor that I’ve ever had, and I’ve had the large boys,” including that in any case these years they’re nonetheless virtually inseparable. The couple first met in tenth grade in Baltimore and Mo’Nique stated “Our energies and spirits simply related.” They went on to wed in 2006 and share twin 17-year-old sons. The Oscar winner additionally has a 32-year-old son from her earlier marriage to Mark Jackson.
Mo’Nique has beforehand been outspoken about their open marriage, even launching a podcast about it in 2016 known as Mo’Nique & Sidney’s Open Relationship. Nonetheless, the actor revealed that over the previous a number of years she “grew out of” that relationship dynamic and needed to shut their marriage again up once more. “Life started to occur. I started to see a power I had by no means seen earlier than. He liked me at my worst. I did not need to sacrifice that only for a lay,” she defined. “So I grew out of that.” The Treasured star first got here ahead about her open marriage in a 2006 interview with Essence, revealing that it was her thought to maintain seeing different folks.
Reflecting on that have within the first episode of her podcast a decade later, Mo’Nique stated, “In 2006, I did an article in Essence journal with Jill Scott saying that I used to be in an open relationship. And after I inform you again then folks misplaced their minds. Now after I first advised Sydney that I advised Jill that within the interview, [he said] ‘Mama, that’s gonna backfire on you.’” She continued, “They thought it was about swinging and orgies, after which there have been people who’re vehement about God, and so they have been bringing God into their opinions. Individuals misplaced their minds, and the criticism has by no means let up.”
In that very same dialog, Hicks defined that he was at all times assured that their association “will not be going to alter the dynamic of our relationship as a result of I am in love with this lady.” He added, “I have been concerned with somebody for 33 years of my life, since we have been youngsters. I’ve identified her longer than I have not identified her, so whenever you begin saying to your self the spirit that you simply got here into this universe with is the spirit that you simply’re gonna exit this world with…are you going to be your self via having an open dialog and an open dialogue and an open relationship?”
