I was ashamed to post this.
It shows the struggles of entertainers who faced the same struggles as normal people.
Dawn Robinson is an American singer, actress and media personality. She revealed in March she was living out of her car for over three years.
Robinson, 58 was a founding member of En Vogue. She was the lead vocalist of the group as well as a former member of Lucy Pearl and The Firm.
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The 1990s R&B/pop group En Vogue. |
Following her departure from En Vogue, Robinson joined Lucy Pearl and released their self-titled debut album Lucy Pearl in 2000, which went platinum worldwide and produced the successful singles "Dance Tonight" and "Don't Mess with My Man".
In 2002, Robinson released her first solo album Dawn, which produced the single "Envious". In 2005, Robinson rejoined En Vogue for a tour, but departed from the group before they could record another album. In 2009, Robinson briefly returned to En Vogue again for their 20th Anniversary Tour. In 2010, she left En Vogue once again due to poor management and compensation of work. In 2013, she joined the cast of R&B Divas: Los Angeles for the first season of the series.
Over her career, Robinson has sold a combined total of over 11 million records as a member of En Vogue, Lucy Pearl and a solo artist. Her work with En Vogue has earned her several awards and nominations, including two American Music Awards, a Billboard Music Award, seven MTV Video Music Awards, four Soul Train Music Awards and eight Grammy nominations.
Robinson said she planned to share this information when she first started her channel, though some people told her, “You shouldn’t talk about it because you’re a celebrity and what if they judge you?”
“I’m like ok and what if?” the singer continued. “What of they judge me? So what? We’re all judged. Life is life.”
She then took some deep breaths and made her confession.
“For the past three, almost three years I have been living in my car,” she said, before squealing. “I said it. Oh my God it’s out!”
Robinson explained that back in 2020, she was living with her parents in Las Vegas and “that was wonderful until it wasn’t.” She ended up living in her car for a month when her co-manager offered to let her come stay with him in Los Angeles.
“He said ‘I don’t have a lot of room, but I’ll make room for you,’” Robinson recalled. “But then when I got to his place, he actually didn’t have room for me.”
Instead, she said, she ended up in a hotel for eight months and had difficulty getting an apartment.
Robinson said she started researching “car life” and learned there is a community of people who choose to live in their vehicles.
“I felt free. I felt like I was on a camping trip,” she recalled of how she felt once she adjusted to living in her car in 2022.
Robinson said she didn’t reveal her living situation to seek pity. Instead, she hopes her story of resilience will inspire others.
“It’s not ‘woe is me,’” Robinson said. “I’m learning about who I am, I’m learning myself as a person, as a woman.”
She plans to continue documenting her current life, which she described as an “adventure” and an “unexpected path that I’ve enjoyed quite a bit.”
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