While speaking as part of Amplify Our Voices: An Open Dialogue on Racial Inequality in America in 2020, Candiace Dillard Bassett revealed that she never anticipated being married to a white man. "So I will start by saying that I never saw myself being with someone, dating outside my race. I always thought that my father is Black, my stepfather is Black, that I would end up with a Black man" (via Bravo TV).

When it came time to introduce her eventual husband to her family in the southern United States, Bassett wasn't sure how it would go down. She explained, "You know southern people ... they are a little slower to get on the train of progression and I was nervous about bringing my white boyfriend down to the country, honey" (via Bravo TV).

Happily, everything went incredibly well. "And having him make it through and be received and accepted by my uncles and cousins, but my family is, they are who they are, but they're accepting and they're loving and if he's a good person, if they're good people, my family accepts them — and my husband is an amazing person. He has a beautiful spirit and they accepted him. Plus, he brought beer and they love beer. So that was the end of that; it was done" (via Bravo TV).