FanRoom Live joyously presents Ice T & Coco on Thursday February 11th, 2021 at 8:30 PM EST in a RARE Pre-Valentine live meet and greet and video chat. The couple will be talking about Love and Relationships and “How to Make It Work” while listening to Love Music from the sensational ZIEME.
Ice T is a global phenomena who started as a rapper and then turned actor and reality TV star. The “Law & Order: SVU” actor starred in Ice T & Coco, a reality show with his wife, model and actress Coco. Coco is the woman behind the man and the heart of the family’s brand in the couple’s marriage. She has established her own career in the entertainment world while maintaining balance in their marriage.
During a time when the human race is sequestered in their homes, when people are crying for the moon and when penicillin can no longer save the world, the FanRoom Live platform inspires actors, musicians, comedians, sports figures and other popular performers to engage and interact with their fans virtually. The sessions are always interactive and more like a meet and greet and Q&A town hall style meeting. The platform digitally connects fans with their idols in an intimate setting and allows backstage meet and greets as well.
The beautiful and vibrant Coco was excited to collaborate with husband Ice T on this intimate platform as the two interviewing together is a sparse and exceptional occurrence. Full of texture and color, Coco is a true soulmate of the heart and doesn’t let her dreams stand in the way of action…..
I know that for the FanRoom Live event you will be talking about love and relationships…so what is your secret to your extraordinarily happy marriage?
Honestly, we hate to brag about our relationship. It’s not something we like to do because people like to see relationships fall apart. But we’ve been together 20 years now and it’s pretty simple when you think about it. People don’t usually like to entertain the simplicity of it, but you’ve got to start off by being the best of friends if you’re going to get married. You can’t be thinking “he’s kind of a best friend”, or “ he’s a friend but not the best of friends.” No! He’s got to be the first person you see as “the guy” or the person you fall back on. Secondly, when you are together for so long you tend to grow apart. People grow until the day they die. They are constantly growing in their head, their mind, their spirit. You have to realize that you guys are growing and instead of growing apart you have to grow together.
The way to do that is you have to constantly be talking. Communication is key. If you talk only once a week how are you going to grow together? That’s our main secret, but if you stop and think isn’t that what people are supposed to be doing? Another thing you have to do is remember the first time that you met each other…. exactly how that was. That feeling you had for each other. You dressed up for each other, you smelled good for one another. You’re at your best when you first meet. So, remember that feeling in order to be constantly still doing that for one another. Don’t get lazy. It’s easy to get lazy after being together for so long. What Ice and I do is we have our date night. It’s been hard during quarantine for us to do that because nothing is open pretty much and if there is there’s a curfew. Pre all of that we would focus one day a week on going to dinner together on a one on one thing and not the whole world. That’s our main thing…it’s pretty simple.
What are you hoping that the fans will walk away with?
Naturally because we’ve been together so long there are fans of Ice and fans of mine. There are people that are trying to make it work and they are very interested in not only advice but how we do things so they might include what we do in their own relationship. I think they are more curious than anything. I think we are going to have a lot of couples come in as opposed to one on one people.
What are you and Ice hoping to get out of FanRoom Live?
This Is a new venture for us. We’ve never worked with anything like FanRoom Live before. We both like to interact with our fans whether it’s on Cameo or Instagram . I started doing it way back when the Internet wasn’t such a big thing. As models, the first thing that we wanted in the world was to have our own website. That was 20 years ago and email was a big thing. Not everybody had computers. As a business owner for us models, our business was to have a website. Back then I had five different ones and to interact with people the only way to do that was to communicate through email and have a fan base through that. Now the new future is you can actually sit in front of them and have a one on one conversation. It’s amazing. So, you go from emails to being right in front of one another, and that’s what FanRoom Live is. So now that you can have a one on one conversation, I think that’s pretty cool and Ice and I are trying something new.
I think that even when the world opens up again platforms like FanRoom Live are going to stay. It’s kind of intimate.
It’s very intimate. People are always trying to talk to me through my Instagram and I really try to take the time to answer them even if they ask me a basic question. But you have to remember there are a lot of people that follow me so I can’t get to every one of them. So this helps me because if you really want to talk to me and have some really good conversation you can try this. Get on the FanRoom. See how it all works out because it is very new to me too. I’m excited myself.
Do you recall anything that changed the entire trajectory of your life?
As far as changing my life, a really big one was our daughter Chanel. To tell you the truth I really didn’t want kids when I was younger and Ice was ok with that because he already had grown children of his own. He had already gone through that phase and I almost made the mistake of not having children. I was at that point where I was so career minded and so set in my ways and I thought that we travel a lot and we have a good life so why put something else in the mix. So, I had a serious conversation with myself and decided that at 35 I would see if it could work out. I decided not even to try hard and not to force the issue. If it happens it happens. I had this conversation with myself and I really wasn’t sure if it was something I wanted to do. I was on the pill for 17 years so I went to my doctor to see what the next step would be if I wanted to have a child. He told me it takes about a year for your body to regulate after being on the pill for so long. And wouldn’t you know that because I was not stressed out about it and not even trying to push the issue, I got pregnant within two months. I feel like since the moment she’s been here that she had been trying to get here for a long time. I have that feeling that I almost looked the other way, but I listened to my gut because I had a conversation with myself. I have conversations with myself all of the time.
You know what that’s ok, because who knows yourself better than you?
It’s true. Sometimes you just need to talk things out. You’re like your own therapist in a way.
If you could say anything on the planet to your fans, what do you think you would say?
I think that I try to give the best advice for the person that’s asking me a particular question. I try to give my impression of what I would do in a certain situation. It’s not necessarily what you should do. but I try to put those feelings out there as if they were mine. I try to give the best advice possible. Now you don’t need to take my advice because I’m not a professional, but I think I have some pretty interesting advice to give because I’ve lived through a lot, but I don’t think there’s anything particular that I would say.
Are you planning on putting out a book on relationships since you are so knowledgeable?
I have a fictional book that I wrote. I am really into spirituality and ghosts and all that stuff. I’ve had a lot of experiences when I was younger. I’ve actually seen things but sometimes you have to be quiet about it so that people won’t think that you are crazy. I just kind of move on with life. I’m really into Sylvia Browne who has since passed on. Sylvia Browne has been a really big mentor in my life,P and I like to read her books. She was a great medium.
Is there anything else that you’d like to say that I haven’t covered?
I just want to finalize everything and let people know that it is very rare that Ice and I get together to do an interview. He usually does his own Fanbase and I’m doing an interview for my own Fanbase. So for us to collide and do an interview together it’s kind of like “hurry up and chime in on this.“
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