Smokey Robinson Says He Had a Year-Long Affair With Diana Ross While Married: ‘It Just Happened’
usmagazine.comShe really had a hold on him. Smokey Robinson claimed he had a year-long affair with Diana Ross while he was married to his first wife.The “Tears of a Clown” singer, now 83, reminisced about growing up in working class Detroit alongside fellow future Motown legends like Aretha Franklin and Ross, now 79, who moved into the neighborhood when Robinson was 10 years old.“It’s beautiful to know we were kids playing together.
And these people are some of the most famous people in the world now,” the “You Really Got a Hold on Me” artist told The Guardian in an interview published on Thursday, April 27. “We had such joy.
I grew up in the hood, baby. And I mean the hood.”Recalling the details about their alleged affair, Robinson told the outlet that the two were romantically involved for “about a year.”“I was married at the time,” he said, referring to his union with his first wife, Claudette Rogers, with whom he shares two out of three of his adult children. “We were working together and it just happened.
But it was beautiful. She’s a beautiful lady, and I love her right till today.” The former Supremes singer “is one of my closest people,” Robinson explained. “She was young and trying to get her career together.
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