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Chris Rock shared that his porn addiction was part of the reason for his divorce.
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He admitted that he “was not a great husband.”
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Rock was married to Malaak Compton-Rock for nearly two decades before separating in 2014. They finalized their divorce in 2016.
Chris Rock is opening up about his divorce.
The 61-year-old admitted that he had a porn addiction that impacted his marriage with ex-wife Malaak Compton-Rock, whom he divorced in August 2016.
“I was not a great husband,” Rock told GQ in an interview published on Tuesday. “I watched a lot of porn. I don’t watch porn anymore. I haven’t watched porn in five, six years.”
He previously discussed the detrimental effects of his porn addiction on his marriage during his 2018 Netflix stand-up special Tamborine.The comedy hour touched on his divorce and the ways in which he failed as a husband, including his infidelities. While he said he isn’t “proud” of these mistakes, Rock believes he needed to go through them in order to grow.
“It’s like you watch a Marvel movie, and the guy, he has to test his powers,” he continued to GQ. “You know what I mean? Every Marvel movie, man or woman, they have to test their powers. They’re a–holes. They get these powers and they’re a–holes, and they’re racing trains and they’re lifting up ocean liners and they try to go to the sun, then they crash down because they realize they’re not God. And then they start helping people.”
He added, “I tested my powers. I definitely realized I wasn’t God or anywhere near him, and I was severely humbled, as I should have been.”
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Rock and Compton-Rock married in 1996 after two years of dating. The couple separated in 2014 and finalized their divorce two years later. They share daughters Lola Simone, 24, and Zahra Savannah, 22.
The Saturday Night Live alum recently confessed that he wanted to make a fourth Madagascar movie to help recoup the money lost from their split. He said the animated franchise, which had its first film premiere in 2005, was “probably the biggest movie I’ve ever been in.”
“Do you understand I got divorced?” he said to Variety in September. “I don’t have Madagascar money anymore.”
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