Tiffany Haddish Used Her $80,000 Paycheque From ‘Girls Trip’ To Pay Off Her House’: ‘I’m Still Afraid Of Being Poor Again’

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Tiffany Haddish has put her money to work. In an interview with Cosmopolitan, the actress opened up about the financial decisions she made as she began to get more roles in Hollywood. READ MORE: Tiffany Haddish Opens Up About How She’s Handling Her Split From Common Things started to take off for Haddish with roles in Tyler Perry’s “If Loving You Is Wrong” and “The Carmichael Show”. “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,” she said. “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.” Haddish added, “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.” Her plans got a bit easier thanks to her $80,000 paycheque from the 2017 hit “Girls Trip”, which Haddish first revealed in 2020. “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,” she told Cosmopolitan. “Now I have a surplus of money, but I’m still afraid of being poor again.