After former En Vogue singer Dawn Robinson revealed that she has been living in her car for the past three years, her ex-husband Andre Allen has offered to help.
Allen, 49, and Robinson, 58, were married from 2003 to 2010. In an interview with TMZ published on Thursday, March 13, he revealed that he has a job waiting for his ex at Hilton, telling the outlet that Robinson’s “charisma and personality” would serve her well in the company’s sales department.
Allen, who is also a songwriter and recording artist, worked for Hilton as a frontline sales executive from 2014 to 2016, according to his LinkedIn page. His profile shows that he has worked for Holiday Inn Club Vacations since 2017, also in a sales position.
It’s a dramatic departure from his past life, where Allen sold more than half a million albums with his pop and R&B group, IV Xample, in the 1990s. But, as Allen told TMZ, leaving the music industry saved his life and finances.
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He’s not the only one who has shown concern for the En Vogue alum. Belle Johnson, Robinson’s friend and also a music artist, told Us Weekly exclusively, “I’m sending love to Dawn during this challenging time. My heart goes out to anyone facing struggles.”
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“I hope Dawn feels the love and support she needs right now!” she added.
Renay Matthews, an additional friend of Robinson, is also voicing her support for the singer.
“Becoming awake means seeing our confusion clearly,” Matthews told Us. “Dawn is clearly on a path to her sunrise and should be supported accordingly.”
Robinson explained her situation in a video uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, March 11.
“For the past three — almost three years, I have been living in my car,” she said. “I said it. Oh my God.”
She went on to add that while she was living with her mother in 2020, tensions between the two caused her to move out.
“I can’t deal with this. I respect her too much. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t and it hurt me,” she said. “I was just trying to figure it out but I couldn’t … you can’t read someone else’s mind and you can’t figure them out.”
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She began sleeping in her car shortly after that, but soon moved in with her former manager, who offered a helping hand. That didn’t last after both realized the unit was too small for them and each of their dogs, so the manager arranged for her to stay in a hotel, which she did for about eight months.
When that stretch came to an end and she couldn’t find a suitable place of her own, she looked to people already living in their cars or RVs as an example.
“There’s a whole community of people who live in their cars and a whole community of people who live in their RVs and a whole community of people who live in their vans,” she said. “And I loved what I was seeing. I just thought, ‘Wow, these people. I could do this, I think.’”
“I felt free,” she shared. “That was a sense of freedom that I had. I was so free.”
