Post by citystars on Dec 4, 2012 19:16:42 GMT -5
Hello All,
I am currently reading Peter Benjaminson's book about Mary Wells titled "Mary Wells The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar". I am happy to report David is mentioned, although in a very unexpected way. I don't know whether the story is true, but I can tell you I was suprised to read Ruffin supposedly wanted to marry Mary Wells.
Here's the excerpt:
On the first Motortown Revue Tour, Wells spent a lot of time talking to David Ruffin, who would soon be named the new lead singer for the Temptations. Rumors flew about an alledged affair between the two.
Wells later insisted that although Ruffin lavished consoling words on her about her problems with Herman Griffin as they rolled across America in the crowded Motortown Revue bus, nothing happened between them because she was still married to Griffin. Even though the other artists would get together in the hotel lobby after the show to socialize, and often to pair off, she reverted to her default mode when unattached and off stage: ske skipped socializing and stayed alone in her room.
After divorcing Griffin, however Wells lightended up and engaged in an affair with Ruffin that lasted about 6 months, she said "He fell in love with me and wanted to marry me, but I was so much into my career". That didn't prevent her from fuming over Ruffin's lady-killing prowess. "David was a good-looking guy and he sill is a fine-looking guy", she said in early 1991, shortly before Ruffin's death. "The girls would be hanging all over him. I would be back-stage watching him, and I would get jealous. Then he would get jealous when I went out there. So I said this is not going to make it. This is just totally ridiculous." She soon broke up with Ruffin.
The book does not state when this alledged affair took place.
Citystars
I am currently reading Peter Benjaminson's book about Mary Wells titled "Mary Wells The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar". I am happy to report David is mentioned, although in a very unexpected way. I don't know whether the story is true, but I can tell you I was suprised to read Ruffin supposedly wanted to marry Mary Wells.
Here's the excerpt:
On the first Motortown Revue Tour, Wells spent a lot of time talking to David Ruffin, who would soon be named the new lead singer for the Temptations. Rumors flew about an alledged affair between the two.
Wells later insisted that although Ruffin lavished consoling words on her about her problems with Herman Griffin as they rolled across America in the crowded Motortown Revue bus, nothing happened between them because she was still married to Griffin. Even though the other artists would get together in the hotel lobby after the show to socialize, and often to pair off, she reverted to her default mode when unattached and off stage: ske skipped socializing and stayed alone in her room.
After divorcing Griffin, however Wells lightended up and engaged in an affair with Ruffin that lasted about 6 months, she said "He fell in love with me and wanted to marry me, but I was so much into my career". That didn't prevent her from fuming over Ruffin's lady-killing prowess. "David was a good-looking guy and he sill is a fine-looking guy", she said in early 1991, shortly before Ruffin's death. "The girls would be hanging all over him. I would be back-stage watching him, and I would get jealous. Then he would get jealous when I went out there. So I said this is not going to make it. This is just totally ridiculous." She soon broke up with Ruffin.
The book does not state when this alledged affair took place.
Citystars
