Smokey Robinson Remembers Affair With Diana Ross Amid His First Marriage

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You will be cruisin’ on over to listen to Smokey Robinson‘s story about him and Diana Ross. 

The “One Heartbeat” singer just lately mentioned he had an affair with The Supremes star whereas he was married to his first spouse Claudette Rogers. 

Throughout an interview with The Guardian revealed April 27, Robinson was requested if he ever had a “factor” with Ross.

“Sure, we did,” he replied, earlier than saying how lengthy it lasted. “A couple of yr. I used to be married on the time. We have been working collectively and it simply occurred. Nevertheless it was stunning. She’s a ravishing woman, and I like her proper until as we speak. She’s one in all my closest folks. She was younger and attempting to get her profession collectively. I used to be attempting to assist her. I introduced her to Motown, in actual fact. I wasn’t going after her and he or she wasn’t going after me. It simply occurred.” 

Nonetheless, Robinson mentioned Ross put an finish to the romance.

“After we would been seeing one another for some time, Diana mentioned to me she could not try this as a result of she knew Claudette, and he or she knew I nonetheless cherished my spouse,” he continued. “And I did. I cherished my spouse very a lot.”

E! Information has reached out to Ross’ rep for remark however has but to listen to again.

The “Cruisin'” artist and Rogers, each members of The Miracles, have been married for 27 years from 1959 to 1986. Robinson is now married to inside designer Frances Glandney, who he wed in 2002. As for Ross, she was married to music govt Robert Ellis Silberstein from 1971 to 1977. In 1986, the “I am Coming Out” artist wed Norwegian businessman Arne Naess, Jr. in Switzerland. They divorced in 2000, and he died in a climbing accident in 2004.

Robinson, 83, and Ross, 79, first met once they have been children. In response to The Guardian, she moved onto his road in Detroit, Michigan, when he was 10. And so they weren’t the one music icons within the neighborhood as Aretha Franklin—who died in 2018—additionally lived close by.

Nonetheless, Robinson famous within the interview that he and the Queen of Soul have been by no means a pair.

“No, simply pals. I do admit after I was about 15 I had a crush on her,” he mentioned, later including. “Hehehe! Yeah, she was positive!”