En Vogue’s former lead vocalist Daybreak Robinson has revealed that she’s been residing in her automobile for the previous three years.
The “Free Your Mind” hitmaker, 58, opened up about her present residing state of affairs in a YouTube video on Tuesday, saying she determined to make her automobile her everlasting house after residing along with her dad and mom in 2020.
“You guys, for the past three years, I have been living in my car. I said it, oh my gosh, it’s out,” she mentioned within the practically 20-minute video.
Robinson mentioned her mom’s “anger” was the driving issue behind her determination to depart her house and take refuge contained in the car.
“That was wonderful until it wasn’t. I love my mom, but she became very angry,” she defined. “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 defined that one among her managers urged her to return to Los Angeles after she had been sleeping in her automobile for “a month.”
There, the unnamed supervisor opened up his house to her, she recalled.
“Then when I got to his place, he actually didn’t have room for me,” she mentioned, including that she ended up checking right into a lodge for an evening.
She ended up staying on the lodge for 8 months, she provides, throughout which period she began researching “car life.”
“I loved what I was seeing. I just thought, ‘Wow I can do that. I can do this,’” she mentioned.
Elsewhere within the video, the “Hold On” hitmaker opened up about her strained relationship along with her household, admitting that she’s estranged from her two siblings and her “forever mother-in-law.”
Nonetheless, Robinson admitted that her present setup permits her to really feel “free.”
“I felt like, ‘Wow, this is so different.’ I felt like I was on a camping trip,” she mentioned, including that she has a fitness center membership that enables her to make use of its bathe amenities.
Admitting that her residing state of affairs is unconventional, the “Don’t Go” singer mentioned she has no regrets — and revealed that lots of celebrities sleep of their automobiles.
The previous vocalist mentioned she’s not searching for sympathy from followers.
“Like I said, I’m learning about who I am. I’m learning myself as a person (and) as a woman,” she mentioned.
