‘People Thought I Wasn’t Good Enough’: Okay. Michelle…
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Okay. Michelle might inform a joke but she hardly ever tells a lie and in her latest interview on Club Shay Shay, she received real about her relationship with actor Idris Elba.
Though the pair had been mum about their relationship in real time, they did admit to relationship after the called issues off in 2013. According to Okay. Michelle, their love story impressed her album Anybody Want To Buy A Heart? and that they still maintain one another in high regard. However, it was the public’s response to listening to the pair had been linked that brought on her the most pain.
“I never exposed that. We did everything together, but people thought that I was not good enough,” she said. “To hear Charlamagne tha God say, when y’all found out that Idris loved K. Michelle, it was like turning wine into Arbor Mist… that’s hilarious. Go ahead, laugh. No, it was hilarious, but you gotta understand for a young Black girl, for y’all to do this… that man has never denied me. My biggest selling album, to this day, that still charts, is about me and him.”
She continued,
“He doesn’t, we don’t, play them games about each other. Idris was amazing. He was an amazing man. I am so sick of y’all…Idris would do fine in Memphis. Accent and all. You talking about a DJ that was in the streets and in Hackney…I don’t care how fine, how Denzel y’all want him to be.”
Despite their painful cut up that led to lovely music and important success for Okay. Michelle, she says that Elba is okay in her e book.
“I have nothing bad to say about Idris,” she said. “We went through what we went through. I despatched my album to him first. And he said, ‘This is a masterpiece. I hate that we’ve gone through this.’ “
In normal Okay. Michelle kind, she gave her hilarious insight on many topics including rumors that she bleached her pores and skin, her emotions on Jack Harlow’s “R&B” period and how Anita Baker pulled up on her to put her in test.
“I was working with Ne-Yo and I had an edible and I was wildin’ out so bad,” she revealed. “And Anita Baker DMed me and said ‘you are so gifted, I need for you to shut up’. And I said ‘well, you don’t care about me’ and she said ‘give me where you’re gonna be’. I’m sitting there with Ne-Yo and all of a sudden Anita Baker is like ‘I’m here’. She came in and she got me together.”
One factor about it, Okay. Michelle is a fashionable griot. She is always going to have a good story to inform and an amusing manner to inform it. And we love to see exes with a good rapport despite their past experiences.
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