Tiffany Haddish paid for her house with an $80,000 paycheck for a 'girls' trip': 'I was afraid I would be homeless again'

Tiffany Haddish knows how to record "Like a Boss".

The former homeless actress has revealed her spending habits, including living on $500 a month early in her career, when she started booking roles in 'If Loving You Is Wrong' and 'The Carmichael Show" by Tyler Perry, where she "started making some money" acting.

“I started trying to figure out how to build generational wealth. The fastest way to do it and the first way to do it is to buy land,” Haddish said in a cover story "So before I even got into season 2 of 'The Carmichael Show,' I bought a house. Everyone told me I had to wait, but I didn't care. I just knew that I was always going to have to make enough money to take care of myself and the house, and that's what I did."

The 'Card Counter' star added, "Between next season of this show, the movie 'Keanu' and the assurance of being able to live comfortably on $500 a month, I've been able to afford half the house. The Girls Trip check was the final check. People told me to spend it somewhere else, but I used it to pay for the house because I was always afraid of being homeless again."

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The 'Haunted Mansion' actress' dedication to her home has paid off: "Now I have extra money," Haddish said, "but I'm still scared I'm new poor guy. Every movie I made, I just bought another piece of land or a house."

2017's smash hit "Girls Trip" solidified Haddish as a breakout star, shining alongside Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Regina Hall in the buddy comedy. Haddish shared in 2020 that she was only paid $80,000 for the film, which grossed over $140 million off a reported budget of $20 million.

With talks of a 2020 'Girls Trip' sequel, Haddish said production stalled because an executive said, "'Oh, you want too much money'" to come back.

Haddish previously told IndieWire in 2021 that she had spoken with her "Girls Trip" co-stars about making their own movie on their terms.

"I read these books on economics and stuff, and I'm like, we should build our own," Haddish said. "So we were writing this stuff, coming up with all these ideas, and then everybody got busy again! But I've got a really good preview, but I don't know if that could happen. I heard about [producer] Will Packer not too long ago, so we'll see. I don't know. I wish. And if it's not Girls Trip, we'll do ours." p>

When it comes to finances, Haddish revealed, "I have this broke girl mentality, this 'I never want to be homeless' mentality. I started to think to myself, 'Well, d OK, I have goals that I want to accomplish, and those goals aren't always necessarily about money, except, well, one of them is. I want to be on this magazine Forbes for this list of the highest paid actresses. I want to be on this list."

A year later, Haddish has now clarified his career prospects.

"It's not about money. It's about power and being able to create opportunity," Haddish told Cosmo. "For example, on my show I'm on right now, "The Afterparty", I asked to see more people like me on set."

And its purpose also involves gender equity, including for defined benefits.

"I met Robert De Niro at the Laugh Factory in the lobby and he was talking about how in his contracts it says whatever he wears, he gets to keep it," said Haddish said. “At first, nobody wanted to dress me or lend me something to wear. So I had to buy stuff. Then it got to the point where people lend me stuff, but then I want to keep it because I love it and want to wear it again!"

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