- - Brian Austin Green Opens Up About Past Romance with Tichina Arnold and Reveals Why She Wanted to Keep It Secret

Kimberlee SpeakmanJanuary 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM

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Brian Austin Green revealed on the Jan. 14 episode of Dean Cole’s Funny Knowing You podcast that he once dated Tichina Arnold during his Beverly Hills, 90210 days

He also revealed why it ultimately didn’t work out between himself and Arnold, noting that he had psyched himself out during the relationship

Arnold also spoke about the relationship in a separate episode, noting that Arnold ended things when she recognized the relationship wasn’t “going anywhere" but called it a "great experience"

Brian Austin Green is getting candid about his past romance with Tichina Arnold.

The Beverly Hills, 90210 star, 52, revealed on the Jan. 14 episode of Dean Cole’s Funny Knowing You podcast that he once dated the Martin actress, 56, but revealed why it ultimately didn’t work out.

“Tichina, she was doing Martin at the time when I was doing 90210,” he recalled. “She was singing. I was producing. So, I became friends with her and Tisha [Campbell] quick. That was an easy friendship. Tisha’s amazing also.”

“So then Tichina started coming by the house and I was just playing beats, and I was like ‘Oh yeah, let’s work on some stuff,’ ” he continued. “And we were doing that and then we ended up, because we were working together, we were around each other all the time, we just got along really well. So we ended up fooling around and kind of dating.”

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Brian Austin Green poses for a portrait circa 1995 in Los Angeles

However, he told Cole that Arnold quickly set down some rules for their relationship that were difficult for him to grasp at the time.

“I think coming from Martin, she was very clear...she was very clear on day one that, ‘Nobody can know about this,’ ” Green shared.

“So… I was in my early 20s, I was living in a culture that wasn’t accepting of me but there was no way to get out of it because that was just where my brain and my heart were,” he explained.

"So I was really insecure and then I have someone who I’m really attracted to who’s telling me like, ‘you can’t tell anybody.’ I think for me it really triggered something, like, ‘I’m not really good enough for any of this. You don’t even want your friends to know that you’re hanging out with me.’”

Cole asked Green if he had wanted to go public with their relationship, to which the actor admitted, “I wanted to in the beginning for sure and then I quickly felt like, ‘Oh okay....I have to shut the f--- up, you know, and sit in the back of the car like I’m happy to be in the car.”

However, the Golden actor said that Arnold eventually became “cool” with the idea of them dating after they attended Regina King’s wedding in Jamaica together. However, somewhere along the way, he had convinced himself that what they had wasn’t a “real relationship.”

“... My head didn’t understand,” he said. “And I then still felt insecure and weird out with her, and I had that thing of like people are looking at me funny, or they’re wondering, ‘Why the f--- am I here or who does this guy think he is?’ So I was mind-f---ing myself during that time period.”

He said that the pair have since cleared the air about the end of their relationship and still talk to each other from time to time. In fact, he said they spoke earlier in the day, before he recorded Cole's podcast.

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Tichina Arnold pictured at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas in 1995

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As for Arnold, she also shared her side of the story on Cole’s podcast in late December, noting the reason why their relationship ended. "I told him, I said, 'The reason why we've come to the end of our road, because I know I see you dating all these Black women now, you're dating me and you're not going to end up with a Black woman.' "

"'You're going to share your riches and your legacy with someone White. And so I'm getting off this train,' " she added, noting that she recognized the relationship wasn’t “going anywhere."

However, Arnold acknowledged that it was “a great experience,” adding, "Because he was a good human being. He was a good human being. And I think in life I had to experience that, so I know what the other side is."

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