Kenya Barris and his wife, Rainbow, have been on the brink of divorce twice. As in, he's filed for divorce once and Rainbow filed once, and Barris even moved out for a year the second time. Yet both times they reconciled.
It's not surprising, then, that there was a divorce arc in 2018's Season 4. This was a tough one to watch, as Andre and Rainbow's marriage, usually a model of wedded bliss, slowly died a death of a thousand cuts. It seemed serious, and the tension could be felt everywhere from the color filters on the episodes to the fact that these episodes weren't as funny as we'd come to expect from the sitcom.
The most recent filing occurred in 2019. Yet he withdrew it on May 21, 2020, according to an article in theblast.com. Since Rainbow inspired "Black-ish," "Mixed-ish," and "BlackAF," it's obviously a good thing for Barris' future shows.
On his Instagram on July 2021, he posted a picture of Rainbow Barris and him cozying up on a flight with the following words: "@tharealrainbow you are beyond question the love of my life and #grateful is absolutely the word that definitively epitomizes how I feel to have you in my life as my wife and mother of my children."
Thank you, Black Jesus.
