<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWe would pretend patience and claim we were waiting until my eighteenth birthday before pursuing any romantic connection,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Brandy<\/strong> says, \u201cI was in over my head. Sneaking around with Wanya<\/strong> and lying to my parents had become a constant. They barely liked the idea of me dating at all, and telling them about us was out of question.\u201d<\/p>\nThe \u201cI Wanna Be Down\u201d singer revealed that she lost her virginity to Wanya<\/strong> and as their relationship progressed, he would more and more often compare her to Mariah Carey<\/strong>. The two had previously sung a duet together on \u201cOne Sweet Day.\u201d <\/p>\nHe also became increasingly hard to track down, requiring Brandy<\/strong> to page him before calling.<\/p>\n\u201cThese are the things that with hindsight you realize are wildly obvious signs of something wrong,\u201d she said, \u201cNeon warning signs that I chose to ignore because I didn\u2019t know what the hell I was doing, or what he was doing with me. Just that I was in love \u2014 or what I believed was love.\u201d<\/p>\n
They did eventually break up when Wanya<\/strong> admitted to cheating on her. <\/p>\nAnd while he has described their relationship as \u201cthe young ing\u00e9nue having a schoolgirl crush and getting her heart broken,\u201d Brandy<\/strong> says that\u2019s not the reality.<\/p>\n\u201cI believe he took advantage,\u201d she writes, continuing, \u201cThe shame ends here. The silence ends here.\u201d <\/p>\n
The R&B singer explains that she has worked to come to terms with the feeling she was manipulated, saying, \u201cI was not a fast girl with a crush. I was not a dramatic teenager who couldn\u2019t handle rejection. I was not an unstable obsessive fan. I was a child. And he was an adult. And it\u2019s time the world understood the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
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