Smokey Robinson Says He and Diana Ross Had a Year-Long Affair During His Marriage: 'It Was Beautiful'
28.04.2023 - 12:21
/ etonline.com
Smokey Robinson has lasting love for Diana Ross. Robinson, 83, is making a major confession about the pair's long-running friendship, claiming that he and Ross, 79, had a year-long affair during his first marriage to Claudette Rogers. Asked, point blank, in an interview with whether he and Ross ever had «a thing,» he replies: «Yes, we did» adding that it lasted «about a year.» «I was married at the time. We were working together and it just happened,» he shares. «But it was beautiful.
She’s a beautiful lady, and I love her right till today. She's one of my closest people. She was young and trying to get her career together.
I was trying to help her. I brought her to Motown, in fact. I wasn’t going after her and she wasn’t going after me.
It just happened.»Robinson says that it was Ross who decided to end things. «After we'd been seeing each other for a while, Diana said to me she couldn’t do that because she knew Claudette, and she knew I still loved my wife. And I did. I loved my wife very much,» he says. reporter goes on the question whether Robinson is familiar with a rumor that he and Ross are the biological parents of Michael Jackson. ?" Robinson exclaims, his voice rising and giving way to a laugh.
«They say Diana Ross and I had Michael?… Oh my ! I never heard that one, man! That's pretty good. That’s funny! That’s !»Robinson then declares he must call Ross to ask if she's heard the same story.The Motown legends have been friends since Robinson was 10 years old, when Ross moved onto his street with her family. Also living in their neighborhood were Aretha Franklin and her brother, Cecil. «It's beautiful to know we were kids playing together.
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