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Dawn Robinson is freeing her caput to the accepted thought of a home.
The En Vogue alum—who founded the iconic miss radical alongside Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron and Maxine Jones in the precocious '80s—shared a uncommon update astir her life, revealing she's been surviving successful her car for the past 3 years.
"When I archetypal started this channel, I knew that I was going to speech astir this," Dawn began successful a March 11 YouTube video, noting however respective radical successful her beingness person warned her not to talk astir her surviving concern owed to her "celebrity" status. "It's existent and it’s OK."
Explaining however "part of being quality is to beryllium vulnerable," she continued with a heavy sigh, "For the past three—almost 3 years—I person been surviving successful my car."
The 58-year-old continued with a laugh, "I said it! Oh my god, it's out!"
Dawn went connected to stock however her travel began successful 2020, erstwhile she decided to determination retired of her parent's Las Vegas location aft experiencing immoderate hostility with her mom.
"That was fantastic until it wasn't," she recounted. "I emotion my mom, but she became precise angry. A batch of her choler she was taken retired connected me."
Dawn—who exited En Vogue successful 1997, but returned to the radical successful 2002 earlier leaving again successful 2008—said she was surviving retired of her car successful Vegas for "about a month" earlier her manager astatine the clip offered to instrumentality her successful astatine his Los Angeles apartment.
However, the spot ended up being excessively crowded with some of them and their respective dogs, truthful Dawn moved into a edifice portion she looked for a much imperishable location astir L.A.
As she enactment it, "That 1 nighttime turned into 8 months."
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Eventually, Dawn said she started looking into "van life, car life, RV life" aft failing to find an acceptable surviving space.
"I loved what I was seeing," she continued. "I conscionable thought, 'I could bash that.'"
Dawn said she moved retired of the edifice successful March 2022 and spent her archetypal nighttime successful Malibu, Calif. Though she initially thought it was "scary" to slumber successful her car, she rapidly learned however to set to her caller environment—including installing insulation and blacking retired her windows.
"It conscionable felt similar the close happening to do," she shared of her decision. "I didn't regret it."
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In fact, Dawn feels "proud" to beryllium surviving successful her car.
"It's an adventure," she said. "I'm successful the trenches of this close now, and I wouldn't commercialized my experiences and what I've gone done for the world."
Dawn added, "My purpose is to animate and fto radical cognize that you’re susceptible of thing nary substance what the likelihood are against you."
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