{"id":590474,"date":"2026-08-12T00:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590474\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T00:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:48:12","slug":"tiffany-haddish-avoids-more-jail-time-by-admitting-drink-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590474\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiffany Haddish avoids more jail time by admitting drink-driving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish has avoided additional jail time after pleading guilty to an alcohol-related driving charge that stemmed from her 2022 arrest in Georgia.<\/p>\n

Other charges were dropped. After entering the plea by video, Haddish was placed on 12 months\u2019 probation and told to avoid drugs and alcohol and complete a substance abuse evaluation.<\/p>\n

She was credited for the brief time she spent in jail following her arrest.<\/p>\n

Haddish\u2019s films include the comedy Girls Trip, Night School, Like A Boss and The Kitchen.<\/p>\n

She wrote the New York Times bestseller The Last Black Unicorn, which earned a Grammy nomination for a subsequent audiobook she narrated. In 2018, she won an Emmy for her appearance on Saturday Night Live and a Grammy in 2021 for her special Black Mitzvah.<\/p>\n

\"TiffanyTiffany Haddish appeared via Zoom during her DUI trial in Georgia (AP)\n<\/p>\n

At around 2.30am local time on January 14, 2022, someone called 911 to report seeing a person who appeared to be asleep in the driver\u2019s seat of a white Ford Explorer with their foot on the brake in Peachtree City, about 30 miles south of Atlanta, according to court papers.<\/p>\n

An officer spotted an SUV that matched the description given by the caller and stopped Haddish as she pulled in, according to a police report.<\/p>\n

Haddish\u2019s lawyers in May asked a judge to dismiss the case, arguing that waiting more than four years for the case to be resolved had caused personal and professional difficulties and violated her right to a quick trial.<\/p>\n

Fayette County state court judge Jason Thompson rejected her arguments.<\/p>\n

\"TiffanyComedian and actor Tiffany Haddish appears via Zoom (AP)\n<\/p>\n

The judge found that Haddish and her lawyers had requested some of the delays, including a request for a halt so she could attend a fashion show in Morocco and a request to leave a hearing early to catch a flight.<\/p>\n

He wrote that she also did not show any evidence of having missed specific performing opportunities or of actual financial harm because of the delay.<\/p>\n

Haddish was also arrested in November 2023 in Beverly Hills, California, on suspicion of driving under the influence after police received a call and said Haddish appeared to be slumped over the wheel of a vehicle while the engine was still running.<\/p>\n

Haddish reached a plea deal with prosecutors in that case in February 2024, pleading no contest to a vehicle code violation, and the two misdemeanour DUI charges against her were dropped, according to the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish has avoided additional jail time after pleading guilty to an alcohol-related driving charge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-590474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}