Tia Mowry clarifies comment about no longer being ‘close’ to twin Tamera

Tia Mowry was quoted over the weekend as saying that she wished she and her twin sister, Tamera Mowry-Housley, “were still close.” After days of speculation, she’d like to explain exactly what she meant — and that it wasn’t what it sounded like.”I love my sister very much. She loves me very much,” Mowry told Us Weekly on Tuesday. “We have a closeness and a beautiful connection. But that’s what that was all about. It’s just how life unfolds, and it happens with many families.”

Tamera Mowry and Tia Mowry pictured in 2023.

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In the comments in question, spoken during a sneak peek from her upcoming reality series, Tia Mowry: My Next Act, the Sister, Sister star was speaking about her 2022 divorce from Cory Hardrict and other life changes. Mowry and All American: Homecoming actor Hardrict shared two children: 6-year-old daughter Cairo and son Cree, who’s 13.

“It’s times like this when I feel and wish that my sister and I were still close and I could pick up the phone and call her,” she said. “But that’s just not where we are right now.”

In her magazine interview, Mowry expounded: “I feel like as we grow up, we all start our own families and their children need to lean on them. We begin to take on new roles and responsibilities within our lives. That is what that was all about.”

Part of the challenge is geographical. While Tia Mowry and her family live in Los Angeles, Tamera resides in Napa, Calif., with her husband Adam Housley and children Ariah, 9, and Aiden, 11.

“In these transitions in life, sometimes you just want a hug and you just want someone to be as accessible as they used to be, and that is not the case,” Mowry said. “It’s called life.”

Tia Mowry: My Next Act premieres Oct. 4 on WeTV.