Tia Kemp says her only date with Chad Ochocinco ended in a high speed chase through Miami, and he never asked her out again. She told the story on Funky Friday when Cam Newton said Chad’s name, and she laughed before she even got started.
Video: Tia tells the Chad Ochocinco story around the 1:26:30 mark.
It happened years ago, while Chad was playing for the Cincinnati Bengals. Tia said it was after her ex husband went to federal prison and before she had her son with Rick Ross. She was spending time with a Miami street guy everybody called White Boy Chris, who had bought her a black Impala with black rims. She said it was the only car like it in the city.
She met Chad at a sneaker and streetwear store in Miami, and they swapped numbers. The next day he called and asked her to a comedy show. “I didn’t know this guy was in the NFL. I don’t keep up with this stuff,” she said. She picked him up on 40th Street and they hit Interstate 95.
That is where it went left. Tia said she still doesn’t know how Chris found them, but he had cameras on her apartment parking lot and she thinks he may have been following her. His Tahoe pulled up next to Chad’s side of the car, and the window came down.
Chad looked at her and asked if she knew the man. She did, and she floored it. Tia said she had been driving since she was 13 or 14 and knew how to move, so she led Chris on a chase until she lost him.
Chad Ochocinco did not take it well. Tia said he was furious and terrified, asking whether the man was a killer and who he was. Then he pulled out his player’s card. “Get me out this car. Do you know who I am?” she remembered him saying, before he told her he played football and begged her to drop him off anywhere.
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Tia was not impressed. She told him Chris was not going to do anything, and she told Cam she wasn’t worried anyway. “I had my gun under the seat,” she said.
She dropped Chad off at his grandmother’s house, and that was the end of it. “We never went on a date again,” she said, adding that she understood why. “That was scary.”
She still had a message for him. “Look at me now, Chad,” she said, joking that he could have had her on his show instead of Cam getting her on Funky Friday.
