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Give a Gift of ESSENCE E-mail Newsletter Sign Up Customer Service ... Newsletters Search Archive ESSENCE . CULTURE . ENTERTAINMENT Through the Storm: Robin Givens On the eve of the release of her controversial memoir, Grace Will Lead Me Home , Robin Givens opens up to PATRIK HENRY BASS about surviving abuse, finding God, and why, despite the naysayers, she still loves Mike Tyson.
By Patrik Henry Bass
Credit: Jason Bell
Robin Givens was photographed exclusively for ESSENCE May 1, 2007.
You can say this for Robin Simone Givens: It's impossible not to have an opinion about her. Her defenders think that the New Yorkborn actress was unfairly vilified by the press as a gold digger who married heavyweight champion boxer Mike Tyson in 1988 solely for his millions. Her detractors feel she deserved the distinction as America's Most Hated Woman that same year, just eight months after the controversial couple were wed. Now, nearly 20 years after she said "I do" to Tyson, Givens, who has consistently delivered stellar performances on-screen and onstage, is ready to set the record straight about who she is, and more important, who she isn't in real life.
With the exception of her appearances on Broadway in Chicago , in which she was the first Black woman to play murderous schemer Roxie Hart, and her roles in urban theater productions like | |
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