‘Life is life’: Dawn Robinson of 90s group En Vogue reveals she has been living in her car for three years

As one of the members of iconic 90’s R&B group En Vogue Dawn Robinson at one time sat in the upper stratosphere of celebrity performers. The group was nominated for multiple grammy awards and their musical hits flooded the radio.

Now, the singer revealed after coping with personal and family struggles she’s been living in her car for the past three years.

Robinson shared the emotional message to YouTube on Tuesday about the news of her housing situation. Robinson shared that she received feedback from people telling her, “You shouldn’t talk about it because you’re a celebrity and what if they judge you?”

“I’m like ok and what if?” the singer said. “What if they judge me? So what? We’re all judged. Life is life.”

With a deep breath, Robinson revealed that she has been living in her car.

“You guys, for the past three, almost three years, I have been living in my car,” she said. “I said it. Oh my God it’s out.”

Robinson went on to explain that she was living with her parents in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2020 and “that was wonderful until it wasn’t.”

While living together, Robinson said that her mother began to grow angry and began taking her anger out on her. Robinson decided to leave her parents’ home. She stayed in her car for a month before her co-manager offered to let her come stay with him in Los Angeles, California.

“He said ‘I don’t have a lot of room, but I’ll make room for you,’” Robinson recalled. “But then when I got to his place, he actually didn’t have room for me.”

Her co-manager instead paid for Robinson to stay in a hotel. What was supposed to be a one night stay ended up lasting for eight months. During that time, Robinson struggled to find apartments.

Robinson then began researching “car life.” She found that there was a whole community of folks living in their vehicles and “loved what she was seeing.”

Robinson said she left her hotel on March 9, 2022.

“I felt free, that was a sense of freedom that I had… I felt like I was on a camping trip,” she said.

Robinson shares her story in hopes of challenging others to “do the things that are scary” and follow their own path.

“This is not like, ‘Oh my God, poor Dawn. She’s living in her car and it’s terrible,'” she said. “I’m learning about who I am, I’m learning myself as a person, as a woman.”