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Tiffany Haddish Reveals Her Strategy Behind Buying Land & Homes: 'I'm Afraid of Being Poor & Homeless'

Tiffany Haddish Reveals Her Strategy Behind Buying Land & Homes: 'I'm Afraid of Being Poor & Homeless'

Tiffany Haddish is opening up about a lot of things in her new cover story for Cosmopolitan‘s special travel issue.

The 42-year-old Easter Sunday actress chatted to the magazine about her fear of being homeless again, traveling to Eritrea often, as well as the reason she picks out her movie roles.

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Here’s what she had to say:

On selecting the projects she wants to pursue: “At first with acting roles, I used to just be like, what seems like fun? Now it’s, what seems like fun and what resonates with my soul? Then I ask, who else is working on it? Will it be my friends? What I’ve noticed lately, though, is that casting has been coming to me first. So I’ve learned how to fight better too. Because it’s a battle getting the people that you want, because everybody still looks at you as talent, when they fail to realize I’ve produced things, got nominated for awards, won trophies…I kind of know what I’m doing. Give me an opportunity to make you richer, sir. I might not know how to keep a man, but I know how to make some money.”

On traveling to Eritrea and exploring her culture: “Every time I go, I feel like I grow as a person, my soul grows, and I know the country grows too. It’s a wonderful experience. It’s made up of hundreds of islands, and I have an island there. Now, granted, the ocean covers it for about four or five hours a day, but I got an island though. We could go there on the boat and hang out for about six, seven hours.”

On her fear of being homeless: “I started trying to figure out how to create generational wealth. The fastest way to do it and the first way you should go about doing it is buy some land, So before we even got into Season 2 of ‘The Carmichael Show,’ I bought a house. Everybody told me I should wait, but I didn’t care. I just knew I was going to have to always make enough money to take care of me and the house, and that’s what I did. Between that show’s next season, the ‘Keanu’ movie, and making sure I can live comfortably off of $500 a month, I was able to pay off half the house. The ‘Girls Trip’ check was the final check. People told me to spend it in other ways, but I used it to pay off the house because I was always afraid of being homeless again.”

“Now I have a surplus of money,” Tiffany added. “But I’m still afraid of being poor again. Every movie I made, I would just buy another piece of land or a house.”

Head over to Cosmopolitan.com to read more of Tiffany‘s interview.

If you missed it, Tiffany recently opened up about starring in Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

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