Ice-T Says Marriage ‘Casting a Movie:’ ‘You Got to Find Somebody Who’s Ready for All the Scenes'

The rapper-actor said those looking for a spouse should find someone to be "ready for all the scenes."

Busta Rhymes, Ice-T, Coco Austin at the LaQuan Smith fashion show as part of Spring/Summer 2026 New York Fashion Week held at Classic Car Club on September 16, 2025 in New York, New York.
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Ice-T has dropped gems on how he and his wife, Coco, have been locked in for twenty-five years.

The rapper and actor appeared on the Monday (January 19) episode of podcast Prince St. Pizza, and around the 13:00 mark of the video, shared how he and Coco Austin have stayed together for the long haul. The couple also shares a ten-year-old daughter, Chanel Nicole, while Ice-T also has an adult son and daughter.

"I think getting married is like casting for a movie, but you got to find somebody that's ready for all the scenes," Ice-T told hosts Nick Turturro and Godfrey. "The fun scenes, the wild scenes, the rough scenes, the tough scenes. And that's what marriage is."

"There's gonna be moments where she's going to need you," he continued. "There's going to be moments you're going to need her. But you want to get married to the person that can put up with you, All of us are flawed."

The Law & Order SVU star added that Austin can "deal" with his constant explicit language and understand that it isn't "directed at her."

"She understood that and Coco's wild, she's a party girl and she's an extrovert and I dig that," he continued. "It does not bother me. I'm not intimidated by it."

Ice-T also detailed that he met his wife at a music video shoot in Los Angeles, where he first noticed her rare physique. "First thing I saw was her teeth," he said. "Then I seen her boobs. So I was like, Okay, she's a white girl. She got big boobs. Cool. Then she turned around, I seen she had a big ass. I was like, A fuckin' unicorn. I'm like, What the fuck just happened? So, in the words of Iceberg Slim, I struggled to remain calm."

Also this week, Ice-T had to check someone on X, formerly Twitter, for suggesting that he couldn't discuss racial injustice because he's married to a white woman. "Wow.... I have no words for this bitch... smh," he replied.

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