Tia Mowry Explains Why She Didn't Tell Tamera About Her Reality Show: ‘We Don’t Have to Tell Each Other Everything’

Tia Mowry is opening up about why she didn't tell her twin sister Tamera, about her new reality TV show, 'Tia Mowry: My Next Act'.

via: Complex

Tia Mowry has an explanation for why her twin sister Tamera didn’t know about her new reality TV show which aired earlier this month on AMC Network’s Wetv.

Speaking about her decision not to inform Tamera about Tia Mowry: My Next Act, Tia downplayed the decision as nothing special. “That’s normal. I mean, do you tell your brother and your sister everything?” she asked the interviewer. Deadline reported in April that the show was expected to arrive in October.

“I think it’s normal for you not to tell everyone everything,” she continued. "It doesn’t mean anything. There’s nothing loaded. She’s living her life, I’m living my life. We don’t have to tell each other everything and that’s very normal.”

Tia and Tamera aren’t very close right now. In a scene from Tia Mowry: My Next Act, the actor mentioned that she wishes she were “still close” to her sister. "[I wish] I could pick up the phone and call her, but that’s just not where we are right now,” she said in a clip shared late last month.

Speaking to US Weekly later, Tia clarified that she was referring to their physical distance; Tia lives in Los Angeles while Tamera lives roughly 400 miles away in Napa Valley, California. "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,” Tia explained. “We begin to take on new roles and responsibilities within our lives.”

"I love my sister very much. She loves me very much," Tia added. "We have a closeness and a beautiful connection. But that’s what that was all about. It’s just how life unfolds, and it happens with many families."

A few months ago, Tamera spoke to reporters about her relationship with Tia. “Tia is living her life right now and Tia is doing Tia,” said Tamera, happily. She was then asked if she was aware of Tia’s show, prompting her to say, “I didn’t know until I found out with the rest of the world.”

When the reporter asked Tamera if she’ll appear on Tia’s show, she responded with, “She didn’t ask me. So I take that as no!”

While it is true that you don't have to inform your siblings of every aspect of your life, I would think that with show business being your professions, that if there was something major like a reality TV gig I would think you would want to inform Tamera and your brother Tahj that you have a new TV deal.

What this basically says is that you and your twin aren't as close as you once were, especially when Tamera is married to a man who's political views lean quite conservative.

She spent that entire clip above trying to find ways to dance around the question, and couldn't conjure up a valid excuse.

If you don't want to let us in on the fact that there is some sort of rift between you and Tamera, then that's fine. It's perfectly okay to not get along with or outgrow your siblings.