Smokey Robinson Reveals He Cheated On His Wife With Diana Ross
Smokey Robinson, in a recent interview with The Guardian on Thursday, revealed he had an affair with Diana Ross for “about a year” while married to his first wife, Claudette Rogers.
“I was married at the time. [Ross and I] were working together and it just happened. But it was beautiful,” Robinson, 83, told the outlet.
“She’s a beautiful lady, and I love her right til today. She’s one of my closest people. She was young and trying to get her career together,” he continued.
“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.”
He then went on to explain how their relationship ultimately ended. “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,” the “Tracks of My Tears” singer said. “And I did. I loved my wife very much.”
His relationship with Ross, 79, taught him that love is far more complex than he imagined.
“You asked me what happened when we get older, and we get wisdom in life. I learned that we are capable of loving more than one person at the same time. And it has been made taboo by us. By people,” he explained.
“It’s not because one person isn’t worthy or they don’t live up to what you expect – it has to do with feelings. If we could control love, nobody would love anybody. Nobody would take that chance. Why would you put your heart out there for somebody to be able to hurt you like that and make you able to have those feelings?”
Smokey Robinson eyes
Robinson is notable for having golden green eyes, which he believes were passed down from his French great-grandmother.
Robinson is a singer, songwriter, record producer, and former executive in charge of records in the United States. He founded and served as the lead singer for the Motown singing group the Miracles, for which he also served as the group’s primary songwriter and producer.
From the time the group was founded in 1955 as “the Five Chimes” until 1972 when he announced his departure from the band to concentrate on his duties as Motown’s vice president, he served as its leader.
The following year, though, Robinson made a solo comeback in the music business. In 1990, Robinson left Motown Records after the business was sold two years earlier.
