Former En Vogue singer and group founder Daybreak Robinson shocked followers with a heartbreaking revelation about her residing scenario in a latest YouTube video.
On Tuesday (March 11), Robinson posted an almost 20-minute video to her YouTube channel admitting she has spent almost three years residing in her automobile. The R&B star defined that her struggles started after staying together with her dad and mom in Las Vegas throughout the pandemic. Nonetheless, what began as a short lived association quickly turned bitter.
“You guys for the previous three nearly three years, I’ve been residing in my automobile,” Robinson confessed. “I stated it. Oh my God. It’s out and residing in my automobile. Oh my gosh.”
Daybreak Robinson referred to as a founding member of the group En Vogue reveals she’s been residing in her automobile for the previous 3 years. pic.twitter.com/CfqX16jAdM
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Robinson described the time she stayed together with her dad and mom as “fantastic till it wasn’t,” whereas additionally explaining the way it compelled her into her present scenario.
“I really like my mother, however she grew to become very offended and quite a lot of her anger she was taking out on me,” she stated. “I used to be her goal on a regular basis and I used to be like, ‘I can’t take care of this’, Like I respect her an excessive amount of. Let me get out of right here.”
With nowhere to go, Robinson discovered herself sleeping in her automobile for a few month earlier than a lifeline appeared to look. A co-manager based mostly in Los Angeles provided to assist, inviting her to maneuver again to the town.
“He stated, ‘It’s good to come again to LA,’” she recalled. “And he stated that I might stick with him and so I used to be like, ‘OK.’ He’s like, ‘I don’t have quite a lot of room, however I’ll make room for you’.”
However issues rapidly went from dangerous to worse when she arrived, contemplating the supervisor, regardless of his guarantees, didn’t even have area for her.
“So it changed into, OK, properly, I’m going to place you in a resort for the evening’,” she revealed. “And that one evening changed into eight months. Oh my God, you guys.”
Throughout these eight months, Robinson tirelessly looked for an residence, however her supervisor frequently refused each choice she discovered.
“Each residence that I checked out, each single time I checked out a spot, I’d name him and I’m like, ‘OK, are you able to meet me right here?’” she stated. “After which he wouldn’t meet me there and so I’d take video and ship it to him and he’s like, ‘No. Oh my God, this neighborhood. I hate it.’”
Robinson, who felt she was being strung alongside, grew more and more annoyed as she watched her supervisor spend 1000’s on her resort as a substitute of securing her steady housing.
“Financially, I do know it’s bought to be arduous,” she stated. “You’re paying your lease and also you’re paying my resort. His residence was $1700 a month after which my resort was over $3000, so each week I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, are you able to afford it? Are you OK?’ And he’s like, ‘No, I can’t however I’m getting it collectively.’”
Robinson went on to clarify that she “bought out of there” revealing that her final day within the resort was in March 2022. From there, she says she landed in Malibu and has since been being financially supported by three folks—one in all whom she says is the mom one in all her former companions or, as she calls her, her “ceaselessly mother-in-law.” Regardless of every little thing she’s gone by way of, Robinson says the choice to start residing in her automobile has left her feeling “free.” Since Robinson posted the video on her channel it has rapidly attracted greater than 8,000 views, along with an outpouring of fan help.
Watch the total YouTube video Robinson posted on her channel beneath.
