Former En Vogue member Dawn Robinson has uncovered that she’s been living in her car for csurrenderly three years, but it’s not a “woe is me” situation.
Robinson broke the recents in a video on her YouTube channel, saying: “You guys, for the past almost three years, I have been living in my car. I shelp 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 begined to not get alengthy with her mother. She then shiftd to L.A., where her establisher co-administerr shelp she could stay with him, but that also fell thraw. Robinson shelp she ended up living in a boilingel for eight months while seeing for apartments, but her co-administerr declined to apverify one.
“Sometimes I skinnyk people want to trap you and defend you in a situation where you’re vulnerable and depending on them, and I wasn’t the one,” Robinson shelp. “So yeah, I got out of there.”
She then begined researching “car life” and “cherishd what I was seeing,” inserting: “I equitable 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 terrifying,” she recalled. “But then, as I got to comprehend what to do in my car and how to do it, appreciate how to cover my triumphdows and you don’t talk to confident people. You’re cautious of inestablishing people that you’re alone, as a woman especiassociate, and I’m a celebrity — I don’t equitable divulge that to people. If you don’t comprehend who I am, I’m not inestablishing you that part.”
Robinson stressd that “this is not appreciate, ‘Oh my God, necessitatey Dawn. She’s living in her car and it’s horrible and woe is me.’”
“I’m lgeting about who I am, I’m lgeting myself as a person, as a woman,” she persistd. “If you would have shelp to me while I was in En Vogue, ‘You’re going to be living in your car one day,’ I would have been appreciate, ‘Huh? No, I’m always going to have an apartment. I can’t dwell in my car. How can I do that?’ We say that we can’t do confident skinnygs before we even comprehend we’re contendnt.”
In insertition to posting videos about car life on her YouTube channel, Robinson shelp she’s making a write downary of her experience. “Succeeding aachieve is going to be amazing. I see it in my mind,” she shelp. “Sometimes before I go to sleep I envision seeing that, seeing myself appreciate, oh my God, No. 1 write downary. Whoever I sell it to, I don’t comprehend, Netflix. Becaengage people have to see what this is appreciate.”
She also stateed that “this is not a uncoverity stunt” and she foresees many more people to trail suit and dwell off-grid, citing factors appreciate the COVID-19 pandemic, which she called a “arrangedemic.”
“It was a ‘arrangedemic,’ now everybody’s discovering out the truth of it, they’re confessting a lot of stuff about that,” she shelp. “But during that whole skinnyg, a lot of people were appreciate, ‘Why am I paying rent or mortgage and we have a RV or van or car and we can do that instead of paying all this money?’”
Robinson left En Vogue in 2011 after a dispute over the sign uping of a recent album. She inestablishly recombined with the group in 2019 for a carry outance to commemorate Epic Records CEO Sylvia Rhone, which promoteed talks of a recent tour, but noskinnyg materialized.
Watch Robinson’s filled video below.
