In an emotionally charged stand-up performance, comedian Akaash Singh opened up about his relationship with his wife, sharing an intimate story he claims he had never heard before—a deliberate attempt to counter harsh public criticism that had branded her a “gold digger” and worse.
The comedian didn’t mince words about the online vitriol, acknowledging that “people calling your wife a gold digger and a wh*re and all these other things, it’s a shi**y thing.” His response was to pull back the curtain on their relationship’s most vulnerable moments, offering proof that their bond was forged in hardship, not wealth.
“I will never find a girl that loves me this much ever again.”
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Singh recounted meeting his future wife in 2014, when his comedy career was barely off the ground. “I was getting $25 a night doing stand-up, I was on MTV shows that paid dog s**t money,” he told the audience. “If she was a gold digger, I didn’t even have $10 to get the bitch, to be honest.”
But the real test came in 2018, when Singh hit rock bottom financially at age 34. Making only around $4,000 for the entire year, the couple couldn’t maintain their New York City apartment and were forced to relocate to New Jersey. The transition itself proved too expensive for their depleted finances.
“What’s even sadder than moving to New Jersey, is I had to save up money to move to New Jersey,” Singh said, drawing attention to just how dire their circumstances had become. The couple spent nearly a month sleeping on a friend’s couch, effectively homeless while trying to scrape together enough money for the move.
The comedian then shared the poignant memory that formed the emotional centerpiece of his set. On their final night before heading to the couch, they stayed illegally in their empty apartment after the move-out deadline, sleeping on the bare hardwood floor with nothing but a light jacket between them. It was October, and Singh found himself at 34 years old, looking at his 25-year-old girlfriend and questioning everything.
“I’m looking at this girl like, man, you could go be with an Indian who’s a doctor, like a real Indian, you’re a beautiful girl, you have so much ahead of you. Me, I don’t know what my life is going to be. I’m 34, I’m f**king broke, this dream might not ever happen, but I’m too fucking moronic to quit,” he recalled.
In that moment of desperation, Singh offered her his jacket to use as a pillow. When she asked what he would use, he simply said he’d figure it out. Her response defied his gesture of sacrifice. “She handed me back the jacket, she goes, you take this. And then she laid with her head on my chest, and her arm around me, the entire night.”
That night on the floor crystallized something for Singh. Despite his uncertainty about whether he could afford to marry her, given his circumstances, he realized something profound: “I will never find a girl that loves me this much ever again, and I will never find a girl who will rise from this heart ever again.”
However, some viewers have noted that this narrative isn’t entirely new. Akash previously shared the same story earlier this year during an apartment tour video. In that footage, which received less attention at the time, he recounted the same details about going broke in 2018 and living in New Jersey.
In the widely circulated clip, Akash and his wife are asked about their monthly spending habits. When she guesses $10,000, he calls her estimate “adorable” before revealing the actual figure is closer to $25,000.
Akash DID tell the story before
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The comedian explains his philosophy on spending: “We work hard so we can do this. So I spend on watches mainly because they’re appreciating assets. She spends on shoes because they lose money immediately.”
But it’s his passionate defense of his wife that captured viewers’ attention. When asked about viewers who might criticize her, Akash launched into a detailed account of their journey together.
“We moved in together in 2018. I went flat broke that year,” he explains in the video. “We had to move out of that apartment, sleep on her friend’s couch for two weeks so we could move to an apartment in New Jersey. It was the only place we could afford.”
The couple lived in that New Jersey apartment for two and a half years while Akash worked to build his comedy career. “Stand-up started to pick up, and now that’s why I have no problem spending,” he says, adding pointedly, “Did she make my life easy? No.”
His wife offers her perspective on why she stayed through the difficult times. “When I first met Akash, I felt that there was something so special about him. He has character. He has integrity. Like, he loves me so much,” she says. “That kind of connection withstood all of the bad times.”
She describes the emotional toll of that period: “Even though everything got so bad, I would just pray so hard every day just to get out of that situation. And I feel like slowly but surely, we kind of crawled out of it.”