Chris Rock Admits He Failed as a Husband and Struggled With Porn Addiction

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• Chris Rock told GQ he was not a great husband and watched a lot of porn during his marriage to Malaak Compton-Rock.
• Rock admitted to cheating on his wife and said he has not watched porn in five or six years.
• The couple was married from 1996 until their divorce was finalized in 2016 and share two daughters.

Comedian Chris Rock opened up about the end of his nearly twenty-year marriage in a recent interview. He spoke plainly about the personal failures that contributed to the divorce.

Rock said he cheated on his wife and was addicted to pornography during the marriage. He described the period as one where he tested his limits and ultimately paid a price.

“I was not a great husband,” he admitted. “I watched a lot of porn. I don’t watch porn anymore. I haven’t watched porn in five, six years.”

He also addressed the infidelity directly. Rock noted that the behavior was not something he takes pride in but something he had to experience.

“It’s not anything I’m proud of, but it’s something I had to go through.”

The comedian compared his actions to characters in superhero films who misuse their abilities before facing consequences. He said every Marvel movie shows heroes testing their powers until they realize they are not God.

“Every Marvel movie, man or woman, they have to test their powers,” he said. “They’re a–holes. They get these powers and they’re a–holes, and they’re racing trains and they’re lifting up ocean liners and they try to go to the sun, then they crash down because they realize they’re not God. And then they start helping people.”

Rock explained that he applied the same pattern to his marriage. He admitted the experience left him humbled and reminded him he was not above accountability.

Rock and Malaak Compton-Rock married in 1996, separated in 2014, and finalized their divorce in 2016. They have two daughters together, Lola and Zahra.

The comedian also discussed how the divorce affected his career. He said the process took time and energy that might have gone toward directing films sooner.

“Nobody has a successful divorce, so that takes time,” he said. “Then once it’s done, okay, you’re not sitting on the money you had before, so now you got to really make some money. So you go on tour, or two tours. So there was a lot of stand-up. There was a lot of getting my life together. You got a pandemic, you got a bunch of nonsense going on there.”

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