Idina Menzel Admits Interracial Component Effected Marriage to Taye Diggs

Actors Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel were married for 10 years and share one child together. 

In a recent interview Idina admits being an interracial couple put pressure on their marriage...

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It’s been nearly a decade since former Broadway power couple Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs first separated after 10 years of marriage, and Menzel recently opened up about the more complex reasons for the pair going their respective ways.

“The thing that came into play more, I would say — and [Taye] has talked about it too — is the interracial aspect of it,” Menzel told friend and colleague Jesse Tyler Ferguson over candid conversation and a meal on the Modern Family star’s podcast, Dinner’s on Me.

The actors first met while working on Rent, which debuted on Broadway in 1995, and were married in 2003. The Frozen star went on to explain that differences in race, ethnicity and sexual orientation didn’t have an impact within their theater cohort.

“We all love each other and sleep with each other,” as she put it, adding that things changed drastically out in public, away from that tight-knit inclusive space.

“[Taye] was on the cover of Essence, and Ebony, and being interviewed by all of these Black journalists, and I think he had his own stuff to deal with, with that,” Menzel shared. “And it seemed like there was some disappointment in the community with him, because he was married to a little white Jewish girl. And so I took that on too.”