Over the weekend, Brown shared a video on social media telling followers that due to her recent successes she has allowed her husband, Chance, to retire from his work as a police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.
This was brought up by Williams on Thursday’s episode of The Wendy Williams Show, when the host likened Brown’s decision to her relationship with her ex-husband, Kevin Hunter.
“I was married to one of those, ‘I make the money!’ and so on and so forth. ‘Go live your dreams! Open a business! Go, go, go!’ See how that turned out…I predict that this marriage is going to be on real rocky ground in a moment. ‘Live your dream’… They may invest in stuff and lose the money.
“They invest in something else then the money gets swindled or stolen. Then they invest again and he comes home and throws his bag down. She’s like ‘What? What?’ And he’s like, ‘I can’t do this and this is your fault. You’re over here making your money and stuff and had me quit my job.’
“No, you work!” Williams added. “Being a cop was a big part of his identity, he liked it but she came to him and said that.”
Williams and Hunter married in 1997, before Williams filed for divorce in 2019 after her then-husband had an extra-marital affair and child with another woman.
Brown heard Williams’ comment and took to Instagram to address them in a calm but cutting takedown of the TV presenter.
“Wendy, the pain you must be in to feel this way, honey, I’m so sorry. But listen, let me tell you this. Twenty-three years I’ve been with my husband, broke for a very long time together. Struggled for a very long time together. Succeeded for the last couple of years together,” The Chi actress began.
She explained that her husband took his job with the police department to help support her dreams and now she is able to support him to pursue his dreams.
“I was his dog in the fight and he believed in me and we did it together for the last 15 years,” she said. “I did every year with him in the LAPD and he did every year with me with rejection and nos in this entertainment industry. However, God has blessed me…I’ve been praying on this for a very long time and it has now come to pass. That is the power of God. It’s also the power of allowing God to be first in your marriage. That’s how it remains successful, we keep Him first. He is first in our marriage. Not money, not business, not success, but God. He’s first.”
Brown said she hopes that Williams can find a love as strong as the one she has with Chance.
“I pray that someone will love you enough to see you when you are not well, to see when you need true support, to see you when you need compassion, to see you when you need kindness,” Brown said. “I pray that somebody loves you enough to sacrifice their life for you. I pray that type of love finds you so that you can understand why I don’t want my husband to put his life on the line anymore, wearing a bulletproof vest if he don’t have to, and if it’s not his desire.”
Brown became a trending topic on Twitter following sharing her response to Williams, with fans praising her calm but cutting takedown of the host.
“Tabitha Brown is an absolute queen who makes a takedown poetry,” one tweet reads.
While another person added: “My prayer is that the Lord grants me the grace to read people like Tabitha Brown did Wendy Williams.”
