But what about my happiness?"
At the time, Nash was married to Jay Tucker, and Betts was also in a long-term relationship.
“So I know that there is great added value to having friendship as the foundation.”
“I was nervous at dinner, because I felt something.
I could not wrap my head around it.
I was trying to see if I was off, ‘cause I wanted to keep the night going.
And the night turned into the rest of my life,” she explained.
Despite this, Nash ended up ghosting Betts the next day.
As Nash reported toThe Advocate, this time period was extremely difficult and distressing for both her and Betts.
“She would cry because it was almost as if she was not able to show her love.
And we had to tell each other we loved each other in secret.”
One day while the couple was grocery shopping, Betts heard Nash cry out from a different aisle.
I feel like I was driving [Jessica] crazy all day," Nash began.
“You know what?
You’ve been getting on my nerves all day.
“You are absolutely the best thing that has ever happened to me.
Marry me, Cora.”
Betts created this nickname for Nash, a play off of Nash’s legal name, Carol.
Nash, of course, said yes and accepted the ring.
Apparently, Betts had questions about next steps lotsof questions.
“‘Well, what happens now?
When do I get a ring?
What do we do next?
I don’t know how all this goes.
I’ve never been married before,'” Betts said to her new fiancee.
Taking charge, Nash went upstairs and retrieved a ring that she’d already purchased for Betts.
“And then I asked her to marry me,” Nash revealed.
“So we both proposed to each other the same night, which is weird but fun.”
The two married before 24 close friends and family members at their home in Ventura County, California.
Unfortunately, things didn’t go quite as planned.
Nash’s passport had expired, so the newlyweds’ destination became Santa Barbara instead,Essencereported.
“They started calling everybody, and we were like, ‘This is insane.’
I never knew why where you lay your head is such a big deal to other people.
I was like, ‘People care?'”
“I met the most beautiful soul I had ever met in my entire life.
“I felt like I was in a situation with my soulmate.”
“It wasn’t like I was living a lie.
I loved the people who I loved when I was with them.
I wasn’t living a lie,” Nash toldThe Advocate.
Similarly, in aPeoplecover story, Nash said, “I love who I love.
At one point in my life, I married twice and I love those people.
And today I love this person.”
According to Nash, her daughters, Dia and Donielle, were especially shocked but accepting.
“I was like, ‘Girl, I’m more confused now than I was before this.
If I have to coin it in the moment, I would say I’m Jess-sexual.”
And they all were like, ‘Oh my god, she’s so cool!
Oh my god, I like her!'”
Nash shared on “Red Table Talk.”
“They were exchanging numbers and all this and that, so they already liked her.”
“I felt like her fear was, ‘How will you be received?
How will I be perceived?'”
Let that girl go on and be happy.
Nash wasbornin February 1970, while her wife, Betts, wasbornin June 1982.
Despite this, Nash’s professional name remains the same (Niecy Nash).
“I couldn’t be happier.”
Nevertheless, Nash told themagazine, “The least of my attraction is gender.”
“I was not suppressing my sexuality my whole life,” she revealed toPeoplein September 2020.
“I’ve done everything I wanted to do on my own terms and my own way.
So my choice now in a partner has nothing to do with who I’ve always been.
It’s a matter of who I am in this moment.”
She was the most beautiful soul I had ever met in my life.
Now that I’ve experienced it, I can’t imagine going through life without it.”
We can only dream of experiencing love as pure as this!
