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Tia Mowry reveals she is no longer close with twin sister Tamera Housley
Originally appeared on E! Online
There appears to be a rift between “Sister, Sister.”
Or at least there was, at one point. According to Tia Mowry, her 2023 divorce from Cory Hardrict had a negative impact on her relationship with her twin, Tamera Mowry Housley.
“Being alone has been the most challenging part of my divorce,” Mowry said on her new WE tv docuseries “Tia Mowry: My Next Act,” as seen in a first-look teaser released Sept. 20. “It’s times like this when I feel and wish that my sister and I were still close and I could pick up the phone and call her.”
The 46-year-old continued, “But that’s just not where we are right now.”
E! News has reached out to Tamera Housley for comment on the sister’s remarks but has not heard back.
Mowry, who rose to fame with her sister — her only one among her three siblings — while starring with her on the ’90s comedy series “Sister, Sister,” has not commented further on the twins’ present relationship.
However, the day the “Tia Mowry: My Next Act” teaser was released, she shared a throwback video of herself and Housley on their previous docuseries “Tia & Tamera,” which aired on the Style network between 2011 and 2013.
“Who remembers that time on Tia & Tamera when I got my sis to try my breast milk after Cree was born?!” Mowry captioned her Instagram post, referring to her and Cory’s 13-year-old son. “Yes, that actually happened!”
The reality star — who shared an Instagram clip of Housley raving about her breast milk in 2019, months after she welcomed daughter Cairo, now 6, with her ex-husband — continued, “With my new show Tia Mowry: My Next Act coming out on October 4th, I had to bring back this iconic moment. Get ready for more laughs, realness, and all the new chapters ahead!”
The twins were last photographed together publicly at the “ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood” Awards in March, during which the latter bumped into Cory on the red carpet.
Housley had expressed support for her twin multiple times after she filed for divorce from her ex and subsequently announced their split on Instagram in October 2022 after 14 years of marriage. Mowry’s sister dropped four heart emojis in the comments and wrote, “Love you!”
Tamera later applauded her twin for being “a strong, strong woman.”
“I am proud of her for living in her truth and not being afraid to do so,” she said on E! News the following month. “The Mowrys, we are there for her.”