Diana Ross celebrated her birthday yesterday! 🎉 Wishing her the best years to come. 🌟 Inside her eventful love life and the men she was close to.Read The Full Story In The First Comment 👇💬⤵️

Naess was only one chapter in a much bigger romantic history. Before and after him, there were other men who mattered too, and the next one came wrapped in Motown history.

Smokey Robinson, the Motown Romance That Stayed Close

Smokey Robinson eventually confirmed that he and Ross had once been involved, and what stands out most is not scandal but sincerity. In The Guardian in 2023, he openly admitted the relationship happened and looked back on it with real affection.

When asked if they had a “thing,” he said, “Yes, we did,” before explaining that the relationship lasted about a year.

He was just as open about how he remembered her. “We were working together and it just happened. But it was beautiful,” he said. “She’s a beautiful lady, and I love her right till today. She’s one of my closest people.”

Robinson also explained why things ended: Ross stepped away because she knew his wife and understood that his feelings there had not gone away.

Regardless, he later reflected on love in even broader terms, saying, “I learned that we are capable of loving more than one person at the same time.”

Some relationships clearly do not fit into neat little boxes. Even so, this was still not the romance that best explains why she never married again. For that, it helps to turn to a man who seemed to understand her goals as well as he understood her heart.

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