Former En Vogue lead singer Dawn Robinson revealed she’s been living in her car for the past three years. But the 56-year-old Sagittarius says her living arrangement is by choice.
Dawn was a founding member of En Vogue, the Grammy-nominated group that also consisted of singers Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron, and Maxine Jones.
The platinum-selling group is best known for their No. 2 hit singles “Hold On” and “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)”, as well as the top 10 hits “Giving Him Something He Can Feel” and “Free Your Mind”.
Dawn also performed as the lead singer of Lucy Pearl before leaving to go solo.
En Vogue continues to tour, but Dawn has fallen on hard times since leaving the group twice to go solo.
In a video on YouTube, Dawn revealed she has been living in her car for three years. She added, it is her decision to make her car her permanent home after living with her mom in 2020.
Dawn admitted she isn’t easy to live with. Dawn said her mother’s “anger” was the reason behind her decision to leave live in her vehicle.
“That was wonderful until it wasn’t. I love my mom, but she became very angry,” she explained. “A lot of her anger, she was taking out on me. I was her target all the time and I was like, ‘I can’t deal with this.'”
The singer turned to her then-manager, who initially said he had room for her, but he didn’t. Dawn relied on him to find her an apartment, but he refused to look at the places she picked out.
“Then when I got to his place, he actually didn’t have room for me,” she said, adding that she ended up checking into a hotel and staying there for 8 months.
During that time, she began researching “car life” and discovered it was doable.
“I loved what I was seeing. I just thought, ‘Wow I can do that. I can do this,'” she said.
Dawn admitted that her current living arrangement allows her to be “free.”
“I felt like, ‘Wow, this is so different.’ I felt like I was on a camping trip,” she said, adding that she showers at a local fitness center.
Dawn also stunned the Internet when she revealed many celebrities are sleeping in their cars, but she didn’t say any names.
Men on social media offered to put her up for the night – or longer term if she would hit them up in the DM.
But Dawn said she’s not looking for sympathy or hand outs from her fans.
“Like I said, I’m learning about who I am. I’m learning myself as a person (and) as a woman,” she said.
