is sharing an update on her relationship with twin sister after rumors of a rift arose when Tia said she wished she was “still close” to Tamera.
In an interview with People published on Friday, November 1, Tamera, 46, revealed she and her husband had invited Tia, 46, to spend Christmas with their family.
“My husband and I have been doing this since we’ve been together, so it’s about 20 years,” she told the outlet. “We start on Christmas Eve. We invite everyone to our house that maybe doesn’t have a place, their family is not around. We bake cookies and we have a little, it’s not like a big party, but a get-together.”
Tamera said the Christmas event involves the extended family as well as her husband and their kids, Aden, 11, and Ariah, 9.
“Every Christmas, we invite our entire family,” Tamera added. “This year my sister’s invited, my brothers, my mom, my dad, pretty much everybody in the family. And we make Christmas beef. It usually ends up being a roast beef with mashed potatoes, green beans. Those are some of the staples, with a Christmas drink that I look for. We just get together and enjoy each other.”
Tia made headlines in September when she said she wishes she was “still close” with Tamera in a trailer for WeTV docuseries Tia Mowry: My Next Act.
“I’ve always wanted the family dynamic of having a mom and a dad in one household. When you’re dropping your kids off, you actually visually see how that is no longer,” Tia said in the trailer. “Being alone has been the most challenging part of my divorce.”
She added, “It’s times like this when I feel and wish that my sister and I were still close and I could pick up the phone and call her, but that’s just not where we are right now.”
However, a source clarified to Us Weekly at the time that “Tia was referring to physical distance between them because of where they both live, not distance between them as it relates to their relationship.”
Tia echoed the sentiment while speaking to Us Weekly three days later, insisting her words were taken out of context in the clip. She clarified she was referring to the physical distance as well as her sister’s added responsibilities as mother meaning they no longer spent as much time together, physically.
“You could hear it from me, and this is basically what I was insinuating: I feel like as we grow up, we all start our own families and their children need to lean on them. We begin to take on new roles and responsibilities within our lives,” Tia told Us. “That is what that was all about.”
