Vanilla Ice and Madonna had a whirlwind romance within the ’90s, however who knew the couple had been virtually engaged?
The 55-year-old rapper – actual identify Robert Matthew Van Winkle –made the revelation on the Simply Jenny With Jenny Hutt podcast on February 1, saying he was shocked when the Materials Woman proposed to him after simply months of relationship.
“Issues had been going so loopy and quick, man,” the Ice Ice Child singer recalled of their whirlwind relationship. “I used to be identical to, ‘What?! I assumed the man was presupposed to [get down on one knee].’ What do you imply? Wait a minute. That is too quick. I am simply getting began right here, and I am means too younger for this!'”
“The extra I give it some thought, the extra loopy it was.”
The pair dated for eight months after they met backstage at one in every of his reveals in New York in late 1991, with Madonna, now 64, aggressively sweet-talking the rapper.
“She’s aggressive. She needed me,” he beforehand stated on an episode of the Dan Patrick Present. “She was a lot older, so I used to be like, ‘Whoa, what is going on on with this?’ She got here into the dressing room proper after the present. She grabbed me and we had been having cocktails that evening.”
Nonetheless, by 1992, Madonna’s notorious Intercourse e-book got here out – and featured photographs of the couple – Ice known as it quits.
“It was disgusting and low-cost. We had been in a relationship but it seemed like she was screwing all these different folks,” he informed Information of the World after the cut up.
“I assumed she was taking photos and operating ‘spherical bare as a result of she was like that. Then when the e-book got here out I used to be so embarrassed and ashamed. It was a porno.
“She threw me in like I used to be a product off a shelf and I did not respect it. That was it and I ended it. She stated she did not have intercourse with these males but it surely seemed like she was.”