No one lies to Oprah and that is why Brandy has decided to come clean about her marriage to music producer Robert Smith. Brandy sat down with Oprah on “Where Are They Now” to address her reasoning.
In 2002, she appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” newly “married” and pregnant. Visibly thrilled, Brandy told Oprah that she and Smith had married secretly the summer prior.
After their daughter was born, a nasty split caused her ex-boyfriend to spill the beans. There had never been a marriage. “At that time, being pregnant out of wedlock was not a trend,” Brandy says in the video. “It was a sin.”
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This was a scandal for America’s clean-cut sweetheart and critics began questioning whether Brandy’s whole image was fabricated. “I felt the pressure of having to be perfect. And I was scared,” she admits in the interview. “I thought that everything that I have worked hard for and everything that I worked to build — the image that I worked so hard to build — was threatened.”
Watch the preview of Brandy’s interview on “Oprah: Where Are They Now?” that airs August 3 at 9 p.m. ET on OWN.