{"id":1210,"date":"2022-08-29T14:28:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T14:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2023-11-30T20:30:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T20:30:45","slug":"terry-crews-shares-how-his-pornography-addiction-affected-his-marriage-and-how-he-fixed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2022\/08\/terry-crews-shares-how-his-pornography-addiction-affected-his-marriage-and-how-he-fixed-it.html","title":{"rendered":"AGT Host Terry Crews Shares How His Pornography Addiction Affected His Marriage and How He Fixed It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actor and television host Terry Crews has been open about his struggle with pornography. Earlier this year, the “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star said he and his wife, Rebecca King-Crews, went on a “90-day sex fast” to battle his addiction to pornography,\u00a0according to the Toronto Sun<\/a>. Although he said it made him feel “12 years old again,” Crews said the fast was worth it.<\/p>\n

On “Entertainment Tonight,” Crews said, “We did it together. Rebecca was right there, and she actually regrouped with me. I went on a 90-day sex fast [with] her. And people were like, ‘Whoa, that’s crazy!’ But let me tell you something \u2014 what was so beautiful about that was it took me to a time when I was 12 years old, and I liked a girl, and I didn’t know anything about sex.”<\/p>\n

In a way, the process rebooted Crews’ relationship with his wife, whom he married in 1989. “[A]ll I did was give her a flower and say, ‘I like you for who you are,'” he said. “And it wasn’t about sex. It took us back to those moments. I felt like I was 12 years old again because sex had been taken out of the equation, and it was all about love again.” The “America’s Got Talent” emcee was just a child when he first saw pornography \u2014 and it stuck with him for many years.<\/p>\n