Christina Milian calls France her home now, and said the decision to pull up stakes in Hollywood and put down roots in her husband’s native country was best for her family.
The Claws star, 43, explained her decision while promoting her latest project on The Jennifer Hudson Show Show Tuesday November 5.
‘My husband is French and we’ve been together for over seven or eight years and for like the last three or four years, we were commuting back and forth every six months,’ she told the Oscar winner.
‘And then we decided to commit to it last year because our kids were going to go to school.’
The Like Me artist shares sons Isaiah, four, and Kenna, three, with her husband, singer Matt Pokora, 39.
Christina Milian, 43, now calls France home after moving their with her family a year ago
She is also mom to daughter Violet, 14, from her relationship with her ex-partner The-Dream.
‘So our children, they’re three, four and of course Violet is 14, they’re all going to school in Paris. What better than an opportunity than that?’ she said during her sit-down with Hudson.
The actress and singer, who speaks English and Spanish, has been learning French to better fit in to her new home.
‘So I speak some… but I actually have been working on it for a year.’
At first, the multi-hyphenate wasn’t that concerned about learning a new language, but an interrupted night out with her husband got her to think differently about the matter.
‘I had been challenged so many times. I’d been at like restaurants and having dinner with people, everyone’s speaking French.’ she said, adding, ‘I didn’t really care because I love to eat so I would just like everybody talk, I’m just gonna’ eat away and I eat everything,’ she said.
However, it was a restaurant host who helped her change her mind about tackling a third language.
‘He came over and started talking to my husband first in English and then all of a sudden it turned into French and this was a date night,’ she explained, ‘And next thing I know for two hours straight, they were just speaking French.’
The actress explained the reason for the big move during her appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show which aired on November 5
The Claws star explained that after commuting between Hollywood and France for several years, she and her husband, singer Matt Pokora, 39, decided to put down roots in his native country so their kids, Isaiah, four, and Kenna, three, could go to school there
She is also mom to daughter Violet, 14, from her relationship with her ex-partner The-Dream. ‘They’re all going to school in Paris. What better than an opportunity than that?’ she said during her sit-down with Hudson
‘And by the way my husband got in trouble for this too,’ the Love Don’t Cost a Thing actress said, ‘But it was a lesson learned, because I was in France.’
While not quite fluent, Milian said ‘I’m Franglish now.’
The actress, who is starring in the Netflix film Meet Me Next Christmas, which debuts November 6, revealed she had her own meet-cute with her husband of four years.
It began in 2017 when she was in Paris for a night of dancing.
Milian has been promoting her latest project, the romantic comedy Meet Me Next Christmas, which debuted on Netflix November 6
Milian revealed she and Pokora had their own meet cute, when they were introduced at a restaurant in France in 2017. The actress wasn’t interested in meeting him at first, but changed her mind when she was the singer’s ‘crystal blue eyes’
The single mom had been praying about finding someone, ‘I said to God, Lord, I’m gonna just give all my time to my daughter, you be the man in our life,’ she revealed, adding, she wanted Him to ‘help me find, like when the time comes, I’m not forcing it, allow me the opportunity to see it.’
‘I was in France dancing away at a restaurant,’ and the host there had been trying to introduce her to someone, but she wasn’t interested thinking ‘it was just another pop star.’
However, when her future spouse walked by, she had a change of heart. ‘I was like, ‘Whew! Wow! and then the host came over and put us together, I was was like, “hold on,’ admitting she was attracted to the Juste un Instant singer’s ‘crystal blue eyes.’
The actress encouraged her fans to go to the polls on Tuesday. ‘You guys, get out there and vote,’ she said into a video clip in her Instagram Stories. ‘It’s going to make a difference, okay. You don’t want to be sitting there having any regrets that you just didn’t try’
Milian got his number and when she contacted Pokora, learned they both shared the same birthday. ‘So it was our birthday that really brought us together,’ she said.
The actress took to social media on Tuesday to encourage her fans who had not voted to head to the polls.
‘You guys, get out there and vote,’ she said into a video clip in her Instagram Stories. ‘It’s going to make a difference, okay. You don’t want to be sitting there having any regrets that you just didn’t try.’
After casting her vote, The Oath star and her friends celebrated exclaiming ‘We did it! We did it!’ into the camera.
