Tiffany Haddish has officially been charged with driving while under the influence.
Tiffany Haddish has officially been charged with driving while under the influence
The formal accusation – levelled at the 44-year-old comedian on Wednesday (13.12.23) – comes after she was arrested in November for falling asleep at the wheel.
Page Six reported the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Tiffany was charged with one misdemeanour count of driving under the influence of alcohol and another misdemeanour count of driving with .08 percent blood alcohol content.
Under California law, it is illegal to drive with a BAC of .08 percent or higher if you are over 21 years old.
Tiffany is due back in court on 22 December for her arraignment and plea in the case, according to Page Six.
The ‘Night School’ star has yet to publicly address her charges, and instead has been promoting her new book ‘I Curse You With Joy’.
Tiffany – who was booked by cops in January 2022 in Georgia after cops received a call that a driver was dozing off on the road – was collared early on 24 November for falling asleep in a car in Beverly Hills, California, hours after performing at a comedy show over the Thanksgiving break.
A watch commander for the Beverly Hills Police Department said: “We responded to a call of a vehicle on the roadway at 5.45 this morning.”
He also noted officers were told the driver was “asleep behind the wheel”.
Page Six added sources said Tiffany’s car was “stopped in lanes of traffic” and not pulled over to the side, meaning any vehicles that were driving in the area at that time would have had to go around her car.
It is unclear who placed the call to police and whether it was one of the other drivers on the road.
The watch commander stressed there were “no traffic collisions”.
When Tiffany was lifted by police in 2022, police said the comic’s vehicle was pulled into the yard of a local residence.
TMZ added officers believed the stand-up comic had been under the influence of marijuana – and Tiffany later joked about the ordeal during an appearance on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’.
She said a few weeks after the incident: “I can say this, Jimmy – I’ve been praying to God to send me a new man. A good man… and God went ahead and sent me four… in uniform.”
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