Moment ‘alien’ greets SpaceX crew as they arrive to rescue stranded astronauts
Even astronauts have a sense of humor, as shown during NASA’s Crew-10 docking on the International Space Station (ISS), when they were met by an “alien” early Sunday morning.
Crew-9 commander Nick Hague wore an alien mask while welcoming four newcomers after their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked to the station at 12:04 a.m., about 29 hours after launching at 7:03 p.m. on Friday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
While ISS crew members were preparing the capsule for deboarding, Hague could be seen floating around while wearing a mask, a hoodie, pants and socks.
“NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov entered the International Space Station shortly after opening the hatches between the space station and the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at 1:35 a.m. EDT,” NASA said in a statement.
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Following the hatch opening by Suni Williams, the ship’s bell was rung as the new arrivals floated in, shook hands and hugged the Expedition 72 crew after Hague’s practical joke.
“It was a wonderful day. Great to see our friends arrive,” Williams told Mission Control.
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Williams and Butch Wilmore are expected to show the new arrivals the ins and outs of the space station before they finally return home after nine months. Their mission was only scheduled to last one week after a launch of Boeing’s first astronaut flight, but they were stuck in space after issues forced NASA to bring the Boeing Starliner back empty.
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Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are scheduled to depart the station on Wednesday as early as 4 a.m. before splashing down off Florida’s coast.
Why Karoline Leavitt won’t be attending a tradition over a century old
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she is skipping the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner slated for April 26.
Leavitt made the announcement during a podcast appearance with Sean Spicer, who served as President Donald Trump’s White House press secretary for the first six months of 2017.
“I will not be in attendance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and that’s breaking news for ‘The Sean Spicer Show,’” Leavitt said.
Leavitt said the WHCA “has truly become a monetized monopoly over the White House and the coverage of the president of the United States in America.”
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“This is a group of journalists who’ve been covering the White House for decades,” she said on the podcast published Friday. “They started this organization because the presidents at the time were not doing enough press conferences. I don’t think we have that problem anymore under this president, so the priorities of the media have shifted, especially with this new digital age.”
Leavitt said the WHCA has been an “exclusive group of journalists who cover this White House, they have not really welcomed other people, new media, independent journalists, with open arms, and so we thought it was time to expand the coverage and determine who gets to be part of that 13-person press pool, who gets to ask the president of the United States questions in the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One.”
“Since we have started this new process of determining the daily rotation, so many new voices and outlets who have never been part of this small and privileged group of journalists have been able to access those very unique and privileged spaces and cover this presidency and that’s very important,” Leavitt added, revealing that the White House has received more than 15,000 applications for the new media seat in the press briefing room.
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In late February, the White House said it would decide which journalists would be a part of the 13-member pool covering Trump in limited spaces, such as the Oval Office or Air Force One, breaking from the century-old tradition of the WHCA independently selecting which news outlets go where the president does when the full press corp cannot be accommodated.
Eugene Daniels, the president of WHCA’s board and a Politico correspondent, said the decision “tears at the independence of a free press in the United States,” but the White House championed the move as modernizing the press pool to expand past solely legacy media. The Trump administration said the three traditional wire services – the Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters – would no longer have a permanent spot in the pool and would instead rotate a single spot in the 13-member group.
The White House later barred the AP from the press pool for ignoring Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The ban was temporarily upheld in federal court, though U.S. District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden warned that case law did not favor the White House and scheduled another hearing for March 20.
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Trump did not attend the WHCA annual dinner during his first term. Last month, the association tapped comedian Amber Ruffin, a writer for the “Late Show with Seth Meyers,” to headline this year’s dinner. Ruffin told CNN’s Jake Tapper that “no one wants” Trump to show up, though the president “should” go to the event traditionally attended by the president and the first lady.
AOC and libs turn on their own for ‘tremendous mistake’ — what was it? Siding with Trump
Several prominent Democrats have taken aim at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., over his decision to side with Republicans and vote for a continuing resolution to keep the federal government open.
“I believe that’s a tremendous mistake,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told CNN’s Jake Tapper Thursday in response to Schumer’s decision. “It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we’ve been sent here to protect Social Security, protect Medicaid and protect Medicare.”
The progressive lawmaker was just one of several prominent Democratic figures to lash out at Schumer, who opted to vote in favor of a House-approved government funding bill that averted a government shutdown.
Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., were the only other Democrats in the Senate to vote in favor of the bill, while Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the only Republican senator to vote against the legislation, which passed 54 to 46.
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Schumer, the most prominent of the trio of Democrats to support the bill, is now facing heat for that decision, including from some longtime allies.
“Let’s be clear: neither is a good option for the American people. But this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said of the decision.
Anne Caprara, the chief of staff for Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Prtizker, appeared to pile on, arguing on social media that Democrats should unify around resisting President Donald Trump.
“The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave,” Caprara said in the post. “Misread this at your own peril.”
Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., refused repeated questions about whether he had confidence in Schumer at a Friday press conference urging Senate Democrats to vote against the continuing resolution.
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“We do not want to shut down the government. But we are not afraid of a government funding showdown,” Jeffries said.
Democratic allies on television also lashed out at the Schumer decision, with CNN political commentator Van Jones arguing that the Democratic Party had to do more to push back against Trump.
“We want some alpha energy. And that’s not what we’re seeing. This party is tired of watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk run over this party, run over this country, run over the Constitution,” Jones said during a Friday appearance on the network. “And if you only have one opportunity to take a stand, and you don’t take it, it’s very difficult.”
Meanwhile, MSNBC political commentator Symone Sanders said she was “p—ed” that Schumer “folded like a paper napkin” and threatened to change her party registration to independent.
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Nevertheless, some Democrats tempered their criticism of the longtime Democratic leader, noting that the party was put in a no-win situation.
“We’re stuck with two bad choices presented by a unified Republican front,” Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who voted against the bill, said, according to a report in WTTW. “These are tough, tough calls.”
Schumer’s office did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.
Democratic Party sinks to a new record low as voters reveal where they stand
The Democratic Party’s favorable ratings are falling to new lows, according to two new national polls.
Just 29% of those questioned in a CNN poll released on Sunday say they have a favorable view of the party, with 54% holding an unfavorable view.
That’s a record low in CNN polling dating back more than three decades.
The Democrats’ favorability has dropped four points since early January, ahead of the start of President Donald Trump’s second tour of duty in the White House, and it’s a plunge of 20 points from January 2021, just ahead of the start of former President Joe Biden’s term in office.
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Just 63% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents questioned in the survey said they hold a favorable view of the party, down from 72% in January and down from 81% four years ago, at the start of the Biden administration.
It was a similar story in an NBC News national poll also released on Sunday.
Just 27% of registered voters said they had a positive view of the Democratic Party, which was the party’s lowest rating in NBC News polling dating back to 1990. The NBC News poll was conducted March 7-11.
The Democratic Party is in the political wilderness, following last November’s election setbacks, when Republicans won back control of the White House and the Senate, and defended their fragile House majority. And Republicans made gains among Black and Hispanic voters, as well as younger voters, all traditional members of the Democratic Party’s base.
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According to the CNN poll – which was conducted March 6-9 by SSRS – the favorable rating for the GOP stands at 36%, with 48% holding an unfavorable view of the Republican Party.
The GOP’s favorable rating is unchanged from January, with the unfavorable rating up four points.
The Republican Party was also underwater in the NBC News poll, with a 39% favorable and 49% unfavorable rating.
The new surveys, released Sunday, follow a Quinnipiac University national poll last month that made headlines by indicating the Democrats’ favorability had also hit an all-time low in their surveys dating back to 2009.
The new CNN survey also indicates that by a 57%-42% margin, Democrats say their leaders should mostly work to stop the GOP agenda rather than to try and find common ground with Republicans.
That’s a shift from polling at the start of Trump’s first term in office, when nearly three-quarters of Democrats said their party should work with Republicans.
There was a similar finding in the NBC News poll, with almost two-thirds of Democrats wanting their lawmakers in Congress to stick to their positions rather than to make compromises with Trump. The numbers in the NBC News poll are also a switch from their findings during the initial months of the first Trump administration.
Both polls were conducted before the move last week by 10 Democrats in the Senate, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to vote in favor of a GOP-crafted federal government spending bill that averted a government shutdown.
The move infuriated many on the left, who want their party to take a tougher stand in resisting Trump’s agenda.
The poll also asked respondents to name the political leader who they feel “best reflects the core values” of the party.
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Ten percent of Democratic-aligned adults name Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, with 9% saying former Vice President Kamala Harris, 8% offering progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and 6% naming Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the top Democrat in the House. More than three in 10 did not offer a response.
Anti-woke comedian calls out liberals for rehashing a debate country has already settled
Comedian Andrew Schulz told Fox News Digital that Americans have “spoken loud and clear” in their rejection of wokeness after a decisive victory from President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
Schulz believes that the political “pendulum” has swung away from wokeness after Trump won the election by running on being “anti-woke.”
“I think that now that the pendulum has swung… we’re past wokeness. Wokeness is done. We’ve moved on. The country has spoken loud and clear. Unanimous victory for Trump. He ran on anti-woke,” Schulz claimed.
Schulz is a stand-up comedian and a podcaster with a wide reach and influence. He co-hosts ‘The Brilliant Idiots’ with Charlamagne Tha God, has starred in Netflix comedy specials, and has 4.4 million followers on Instagram.
The comedian continued his attack on wokeness, noting the most successful ad campaign of the election was targeted at it.
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“The most successful ad was, you know, ‘Trump is for me and you, Kamala is for they/them.’ The most successful ad was vote against wokeness. Right?… So, in a lot of ways, the result, the election, was decided based on how people felt about wokeness. And they were like, ‘We’re going too far in that direction,'” noted Schulz.
“Kamala is for they/them, Donald Trump is for you,” is the line that echoed in the ears of millions of American parents and children over the course of the 2024 election.
The phrase was launched by the Trump campaign in September 2024. It was repeated in ads, not just for Trump, but for candidates down-ballot on the Republican ticket. It has been hailed as the most effective campaign slogan of the entire 2024 cycle.
Schulz told the outlet that, now that the American people have clearly rejected wokeness after a popular vote win for a candidate that ran against these ideas, it’s time to move on.
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“So now that that’s been solved… we don’t need to argue about it anymore. Like, we already know how America feels. You can say whatever you want about wokeness. Like, you can be critical of it because nobody’s going to give you push back, because the majority of the country said, ‘We don’t believe in that,'” the comedian asserted.
With woke ideology creeping its way into the school system, Fox News Digital asked if he plans on talking with his daughter about some of the more hot-button societal issues that may be discussed when she begins school. The comedian said that while he and his wife will absolutely teach her their values, it is important that she hears other points of view in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the world.
“I think it’s really important that my kid learns whatever the woke stuff is, and then also, like, learns whatever my perspective on it is, and then learns whatever her mom’s perspective on it is. And then can critically think. I think there are a lot of kids that grew up in these little echo chambers, that could be conservative or liberal. And then they’re faced with, they meet somebody that like, thinks differently, and then they just kind of fall apart because they have a dull sword. It hasn’t been sharpened,” said Schulz.
The comedian expanded on his argument, pointing out that the only way you can “sharpen your sword” is to debate the other side.
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“The only way you sharpen the sword is when you have these conversations with people who disagree with you, and then sometimes you realize how dull your arguments are. You’re like, ‘Oh my gosh. F—, that was really embarrassing.’ So I think having, like, a contentious but respectful relationship is important. So like, I’m not afraid of my daughter going to like a, like a school that has — more like woke ideology, because I’m going to be in her life,” Schulz said.
Schulz will be appearing on Fox News’ The Will Cain Show on Monday at 4p.m. (EST). His new comedy special, “Life,” premiered on Netflix on March 4th.
Who’s turning up the heat on the lone witness after American vanishes without a trace
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – The top prosecutor in the Dominican Republic interviewed Iowa 22-year-old Joshua Riibe at his hotel in Punta Cana for hours Saturday, personally questioning the lone publicly known eyewitness in the disappearance of Virginia 20-year-old Sudiksha Konanki.
Yeni Berenice Reynoso, the Dominican attorney general, grilled Riibe in person to wrap up a week that included multiple interviews with detectives from several agencies, including La Policia Nacional, the country’s police force, and detectives from Loudoun County, Virginia, Konanki’s hometown.
Reynoso’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Both Riibe and Reynoso’s entourage were seen coming and going from a room in the Riu Republica hotel for hours Saturday evening, and his lawyers later confirmed he was being questioned by the AG herself.
While Riibe has not been named a suspect, nor has any crime been alleged, authorities have described him as a “key element” in the missing person investigation. He has been joined in the country by his parents. Riibe, Konanki and their friends were staying at the resort for spring break.
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Riibe’s parents on Friday said he had been subjected to “irregular treatment” for more than a week.
“Despite his full willingness to cooperate, Josh has been detained under irregular conditions and subjected to extensive questioning without the presence of official translators or legal counsel until Wednesday, March 12,” his parents, Albert and Tina Riibe, said through their attorneys.
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“He has remained in his hotel room under police surveillance and has been repeatedly taken to the police station since March 6, where he has been interrogated for long hours. This situation has raised serious concern within his family, which has led us to retain legal counsel to initiate legal actions ensuring his safety and the protection of his rights throughout this process,” they said.
Authorities also revealed Saturday that Riibe’s passport has been confiscated.
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Konanki was last seen entering the beach behind the resort with a group that included her female friends from the University of Pittsburgh, as well as two men, one of whom has been identified as Riibe, a senior at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
Dominican law, similar to that in the U.S., requires detained people to be released within 48 hours if they are not charged.
A State Department spokesperson said U.S. authorities were aware of the situation, but could not comment on specifics due to “privacy and other considerations.”
“The Department has no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens abroad,” the spokesperson said.
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A source close to the investigation told Fox News Digital on Friday that Riibe remains a “key element” in the investigation who would face “intensified” questioning. The source said authorities are also taking a closer look at phone records from Konanki and other witnesses, including the people she was seen with entering the beach before she vanished.
Konanki, Riibe and their friends were seen entering the beach behind the Riu Republica five-star resort around 4:15 a.m. on March 6. All of them except Konanki returned.
Six of them were seen leaving the beach around 6 a.m. Riibe returned alone just before 10 a.m. Konanki was reported missing by her friends at 4 p.m. that day and remains missing.
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Riibe, according to a leaked transcript of one of his police interviews obtained by Fox News, told police that he and Konanki were struck by a strong wave and swept offshore. They battled the current, and he brought her back to land. Then he said he last saw her walking away in knee-deep water toward her belongings, as he threw up and then fell asleep on a beach chair
When he woke up, she was gone, he said.
The same resort saw four European tourists drown in one incident in January. Their remains were all recovered within 48 hours.
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The search for Konanki has expanded up the coastline, involving hundreds of personnel, helicopters, planes, boats, dive teams, K9s and drones, including new AI-equipped models.
“Above all, we wish to contribute to the search efforts and understand the anguish and uncertainty they are going through, and we share the hope that Sudiksha will be found as soon as possible,” Riibe’s parents said Friday. “Joshua Riibe is deeply dismayed by her disappearance and has fully cooperated in the search and clarification of the facts from the very beginning.”
Spring break murder at hot spot ends with nearly a billion-dollar win for victim’s family
A South Carolina jury awarded $700 million to the New York family of a 17-year-old girl who was kidnapped and murdered on a 2009 spring break trip to Myrtle Beach.
Brittanee Drexel’s mother, Dawn Pleckan, filed a lawsuit in January 2023 that accused Raymond Moody, the man who killed her daughter; Bar Harbor Resort Inc.; and Smith Family Partners LLC of wrongful conduct that resulted in Drexel’s murder while the teen was visiting the coastal South Carolina vacation spot with her friends.
The jury concluded last month that Moody caused Drexel’s family emotional distress, and the award included $200 million in actual damages and $500 million in punitive damages, according to county records and FOX 8 Greensboro.
“I’m at a loss for words,” Moody reportedly said in court, according to FOX 8. “I mean, I just have so much regret. I’ve realized it doesn’t matter how sincere I am about how I feel about things I’ve done. It’s just not enough.”
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Angel Cooper Vause, Moody’s 57-year-old girlfriend of Georgetown, South Carolina, was also recently sentenced to serve 18 years in prison for lying to federal investigators about her role in Drexel’s kidnapping and murder.
On April 25, 2009, Drexel left the beach and the Bar Harbor Hotel, where she was staying, to meet a friend at the nearby Blue Water Resort. It was the last time anyone other than Moody and Vause saw the teenager. Security footage showed Drexel entering the Myrtle Beach resort that evening.
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At 9 p.m., Drexel was walking alone in Myrtle Beach when Moody approached her while driving a Ford Explorer and kidnapped the teenager, transported her to a remote campsite near his home in Georgetown, raped and murdered her.
Moody discarded Drexel’s phone in the North Santee River and buried her body in a “shallow grave.”
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Vause is accused of luring Drexel into Moody’s van, promising to give her a ride back to her hotel, according to the Justice Department. She kept her involvement and the details of Drexel’s murder a secret for 13 years until authorities found the teenager’s remains in 2022.
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“For more than a decade, Brittanee’s loved ones were left to imagine the worst possible scenario in Brittanee’s disappearance while Vause withheld the truth,” U.S. Attorney Adair Ford Boroughs of the District of South Carolina said in a statement last month.
“We hope Brittanee’s loved ones can now have both the closure and a measure of justice that comes with this sentence. May she rest in peace knowing that her mother Dawn was relentless in her pursuit of justice.”
In October 2022, 62-year-old Moody of South Carolina pleaded guilty to kidnapping, raping and murdering Drexel. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Former ’90s hitmaker gets job offer after living in her car for years
Dawn Robinson’s ex-husband, Andre “Dre” Allen, is extending a helping hand to the former En Vogue singer after she revealed that she has been living out of her car for three years.
During an interview with TMZ Hip Hop that was published on Thursday, Allen, 49, who was married to Robinson, 58, from 2003 to 2010, shared that he is offering her a job in the hospitality industry.
Allen, who is also a singer-songwriter and former member of the 1990s pop and R&B group IV Xample, currently works full-time in hospitality, and he told TMZ that he believes Robinson would be a “perfect” addition to the sales department at Hilton Brands.
He predicted that Robinson would be successful in a sales position due to her “charisma and personality” and doesn’t believe that the entertainment industry will not “pay her what she’s worth.”
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Allen launched his music career in 1992 when he formed the IV Xample with fellow members Robert “Bobby C” Chevis, his brother Raymond “Runni Rae” Chevis, and Bryant “Lucious” Woodert. The group’s debut album “For Example,” which featured their hit single “I’d Rather Be Alone,” sold over 500,000 copies.
After the group split up in 1998, Allen released two solo albums and wrote songs for a number of recording artists. He told TMZ that he helped facilitate Robinson’s return to En Vogue when she reunited with the group in 2008 before she departed again in 2011.
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While speaking with TMZ Hip Hop, Allen told the outlet that he has left the music industry behind, which he said saved his “life and finances.” He explained that he has found greater financial success working in the hospitality industry than he was able to achieve over his years in the music business.
Allen claimed that he has loaned money to “dozens of notable music industry friends” and said he knows others who died due to poverty, which motivated him to try to help Robinson after learning of her current circumstances.
He told TMZ Hip Hop that he previously offered the opportunity to Robinson and hopes she will accept the position. Allen said that his ex-wife would receive “free medical from day one” as well as “PTO to juggle her career.”
In a video posted to YouTube on Tuesday, Robinson, who found mega success alongside En Vogue band members Cindy Herron, Terry Ellis and Maxine Jones in the 1990s, opened up about living in her car since 2022.
She explained why she chose to pursue “car life” and expressed her hopes that her vulnerability can help inspire others who are in dire situations.
“People are like, ‘You shouldn’t talk about it, because you’re a celebrity, and what if they judge you?’ So what? What if they judge me? Life is life. . . . part of being human is being vulnerable,” she said.
“You guys, for the past three years, I have been living in my car,” she added. “I said it, oh my gosh, it’s out.”
Robinson said her aim is to “inspire” others and let people know that they are “capable of anything, no matter what the odds are against you.”
While explaining how she got to where she was, Robinson said she had been living with her parents in Las Vegas about five years ago. After being at odds with her mom, the singer made the decision to leave and ended up sleeping in her car for about a month.
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A co-manager at the time urged her to move to Los Angeles, telling Robinson he’d help her find a place to stay. However, after eight months of living in a hotel, Robinson cut ties when she realized he was “playing games.”
“Sometimes I think people want to trap you and keep you in a situation when you’re vulnerable,” she said. “So, I got out of there.”
Afterward, Robinson packed her car up and drove to Malibu, Calif., to begin her “car life.”
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“I don’t regret anything,” she said. “That first night was scary.”
Robinson quickly learned the ins and outs of car life, like “cover your windows” and avoiding talking to “certain people.”
“I felt free,” she said. “It was so different. I felt like I was on a camping trip. It just felt like it was the right thing to do.”
“I’m learning who I am as a person, as a woman,” she continued. “We say we can’t do certain things before we even know that we’re capable. . . . I’m glad that I made this choice, because I needed to go through this fire.”
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“I wouldn’t trade my experiences and what I’ve gone through for the world,” she added. “I miss my family. I miss everyone I was connected to. But I needed to do this alone. . . . But I needed to do this for me. It’s not easy for me by any means.”
Robinson said she’s”really proud” of how far she’s gone and urged her followers to face their fears.
“I challenge you to do the things that are scary,” she said. “People are going to call you crazy, and that’s okay. You feel a sense of freedom, and you push yourself.”
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“Be spontaneous,” she added. “Do the scary. F— fear.”
En Vogue, which was formed in 1989, earned six Grammy nominations. Robinson left in March 1997, but reunited with the group in 2005 and 2008.