Terry Crews’ wife, Rebecca King-Crews, has received some harsh criticism about being Black, and Crews has had it! Rebecca is biracial and presents as too white to be considered Black, and while Terry is sick of the critics, he gives his wife nothing by high praise for dealing with it all with grace.

During a visit to “Club Shay Shay,” Shannon Sharpe asked Crews, “Your wife’s color is always something that’s brought up…for the record, she’s Black, correct?”

Crews immediately responded, “She’s Black, yes. Black momma, white daddy.”

Raised by a Black mother and a White father in Gary, Indiana, Crews believes his wife’s Blackness is obvious. "Just because she don't have that kind of look…her momma is Black," Crews said. My wife was Miss Gary, Indiana, in 1984. And Gary, Indiana, is like Flint. There aren't anything but Black people. And she was raised in Black culture, so it wasn't like she was raised on the outskirts." 

“In Gary, they knew she was Black because they saw her momma, her Black friends…” Crews said. It’s when they go to other places that Rebecca’s Blackness is challenged, especially with Crews being a Black man. He said he had to deal with people thinking that as a professional athlete, he went and got himself a white wife. He admires Rebecca for going high when her critics go low.

"It never bothered her; she was like, 'I love Black people, and even if some feel that I'm white, I understand it.'... Wow, and it's deep to me."

He added, "That's the way I had to start thinking because I would always get angry. But to watch her, the way she dealt with things peacefully, like 'I'm not gonna go there. You know what? That's trauma that they had to deal with, and I understand it. But I love them anyway.'"

The two lovebirds have been married for 34 years and met when Crews was a sophomore at Western Michigan, and Rebecca was a music minister at a local church. They got married 5 years after Rebecca’s reign as Miss Gary, Indiana, and lived happily ever after, until 20 years into the marriage when Crews said, at that point, it was over. “We were on our way to breaking up,” Crews shared. 

Crews detailed that he was allowing the glitter, gold, and temptations of Hollywood to distract and distance him from his marriage, but Rebecca’s choice to stay inspired him to change his ways. He was determined to be the man Rebecca thought she married, and he said, “I’ve spent the last 14 years doing that, and we’re closer than ever.”