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Dawn Robinson was a founding member of a profitable singing group that was half of the pop soundtrack of the ’90s, however issues have modified.
In a video shared on her YouTube channel Tuesday, the former member of En Vogue, whose many hits embody “My Lovin’” and “Hold On,” revealed that arduous instances have led to her living in her car.
Robinson mentioned she deliberate to share this info when she first began her channel, although some folks instructed 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 mentioned, earlier than squealing. “I said it. Oh my God it’s out!”
Robinson defined that again in 2020, she was living with her dad and mom 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 provided to let her come stick 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 mentioned, she ended up in a resort for eight months and had issue getting an condominium.
Robinson mentioned she began researching “car life” and realized there’s a group of individuals who select to stay in their autos.
“I felt free. I felt like I was on a camping trip,” she recalled of how she felt as soon as she adjusted to living in her car in 2022.
Robinson mentioned she didn’t reveal her living scenario to hunt pity. Instead, she hopes her story of resilience will encourage others.
“It’s not ‘woe is me,’” Robinson mentioned. “I’m learning about who I am, I’m learning myself as a person, as a woman.”
She plans to proceed documenting her present life, which she described as an “adventure” and an “unexpected path that I’ve enjoyed quite a bit.”