En Vogue’s Dawn Robinson Has Been Living in Her Car for ‘Almost Three Years’ but Says: It’s Not ‘Woe Is Me’

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Ellise Shafer Former En Vogue member Dawn Robinson has revealed that she’s been living in her car for nearly three years, but it’s not a “woe is me” situation.

Robinson broke the news in a video on her YouTube channel, saying: “You guys, for the past almost three years, I have been living in my car.

I said it! Oh my God, it’s out.” The singer, who was part of En Vogue from its inception in 1989 until 2011, detailed that she was living with her parents in Las Vegas in 2020 but started to not get along with her mother.

She then moved to L.A., where her former co-manager said she could stay with him, but that also fell through. Robinson said she ended up living in a hotel for eight months while looking for apartments, but her co-manager refused to approve one. “Sometimes I think people want to trap you and keep you in a situation where you’re vulnerable and depending on them, and I wasn’t the one,” Robinson said. “So yeah, I got out of there.” She then started researching “car life” and “loved what I was seeing,” adding: “I just thought, ‘Wow, I could do this.'” Robinson is now living in her car in Malibu, and has a gym membership in order to shower. “That first night was scary,” she recalled. “But then, as I got to know what to do in my car and how to do it, like how to cover my windows and you don’t talk to certain people.