Nia Long’s Husband: Everything To Know About Her Fiancé Ime Udoka & Past Exes

Nia Long has breached her soundlessness connected the contention surrounding her fiancé, Boston Celtics caput coach Ime Udoka, who was suspended connected September 22 for an alleged consensual narration with a pistillate connected the NBA team’s staff. The beloved 45-year-old actress, who made a sanction for herself successful specified 90s classics as Love Jones and Boyz N The Hood, released a connection thanking fans for their enactment amid the controversy.

Nia Long is presently engaged to Ime Udoka. (Tara Mays/Shutterstock)

“The outpouring emotion and enactment from family, friends and the assemblage during this hard clip means truthful overmuch to me,” Nia said successful the connection to HollywoodLife. “I inquire that my privateness beryllium respected arsenic I process the caller events. Above all, I americium a parent and volition proceed to absorption connected my children.”

While Nia and Ime benignant done their narration and hopefully travel retired amended than ever, let’s instrumentality a heavy dive into the beauty’s past romances. Keep speechmaking to find retired each astir Nia’s emotion life, below!

Chris Rock

Nia Long and Chris Rock had a little relationship. (Dave Allocca/Starpix/Shutterstock)

Nia and Chris had a little romance erstwhile they were some coming up successful Hollywood. However, aft their archetypal date, things didn’t precisely spell arsenic planned, according to Nia. “We went connected a day and aft we kinda hung out, and past helium took maine backmost to Brooklyn and I’m similar ‘Okay, truthful I conjecture this is the portion wherever you speech numbers,’” she explained connected the Wendy Williams Show. “Make a agelong communicative abbreviated and a week goes by and I didn’t perceive from him, helium gave maine his fig and I gave him mine, and I’m similar ‘God, helium didn’t telephone me.’ And yet I telephone him and I dial the fig and this…man, gave maine a incorrect number!” Chris hilariously admitted it connected the show, saying she was “obnoxious” erstwhile they met. The brace evidently laughter astir it now.

Chris Tucker

Another comedian named Chris gave nia rather the dating anecdote arsenic well. In 1995, the brace were filming the drama classical Friday erstwhile they began to person an involvement successful each other. As Nia describes it, she had much jobs successful Hollywood than Chris astatine the time, truthful she was capable to spend a BMW, thing that she flossed a spot successful beforehand of Chris, until helium got his hilarious payback.

“Back past this seemed similar a large purchase. I bought myself a BMW. It was truthful cute,” she began to archer the communicative to AV/TVClub, per ILoveOldSchoolMusic.com. “I was shooting Friday astatine the time, and Chris Tucker and I saw each different connected the freeway, connected the mode to the set. He had a busted model with a pizza container implicit it due to the fact that helium couldn’t spend to hole the window! We get to enactment and helium goes, “When I turn up, I privation to beryllium conscionable similar you.'”

However, Chris became a large blockbuster prima (see Rush Hour franchise with Jackie Chan) and the tables were soon turned. “Cut to—all the wealth helium made,” Nia continued. “Two years ago, we spell retired to meal and helium picked maine up in—ready?—a Phantom Rolls-Royce, which—I couldn’t adjacent fig retired however to get the damn car doorway opened. I said to him: ‘Oh, you privation to beryllium similar me? I deliberation the tables person turned.’”

Massai Dorsey

Nia Long has 2 sons from 2 antithetic relationships. (Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)

Nia met actor Massai Dorsey on the acceptable of her NBC transgression drama Third Watch, which ran from 1999 to 2005. The 2 began dating and welcomed son Massai Dorsey II on November 26, 2000. At 1 constituent the caller parents were engaged, but yet went their abstracted ways soon aft the birth.

Ime Udoka

In 2010, Nia revealed she was dating erstwhile hoops prima Ime. Two years later, the mates got a immense surprise: they were pregnant! Nia, who was 40 astatine the time, discovered she was with kid during a regular sojourn to the doctor! When they welcomed Kez Sunday Udoka in November connected 2010, the mates shared the quality to the world. “Words can’t explicate however thrilled we are by the caller summation to our family,” Nia and Ime said successful the statement. “We consciousness genuinely blessed and admit each the good wishes and prayers.”

In 2015, the mates got engaged. Yet aft helium popped the question, Nia appeared to person doubts astir walking down the aisle. “I recognize the spiritual facet of marriage. That is beauteous and it’s fantastical and it’s dreamy and it’s each girl’s phantasy to person that moment. But I don’t cognize that I request that to consciousness similar I’m successful a concern that’s working,” she said connected the Yes Girl podcast successful Dec. 2020. The mates person yet to wed.