Angie Stone Says She Will Always Love D'Angelo: "That Was A Genuine Love"

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She said that she was able to get back down to the size she is now because she stopped eating meat for two years. The more she learned about the process of getting meats from farms to table, she was grossed out. However, a major dip in protein that impacted her kidneys caused her to reincorporate meat into her diet sometimes.

“God just blessed me to take me back down to that little girl who started out, but that came with obedience. That came with discipline. Eating less of the fatty foods and putting down the dead animals.”

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When she speaks of D’Angelo, Stone talks lovingly of her ex and the father of her son, Michael Archer, Jr.. She said that while she’s had some good and bad relationships, when it comes to true love, she had it with the beloved crooner.

“There has been great lovers, but when you’re talking about the core of love, I will always love him,” she said. “No matter how pissed off I get. He’s still the bomb dot com. He’s a genius, and uh, he’s my baby daddy. I got to respect that.”

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Pictured here in 2000 with a formidable group of R&B legends in the late Whitney Houston, Deborah Cox and Faith Evans, Stone’s star was on the rise. Her relationship at that time with D’Angelo put a target on her back in terms of receiving unwanted opinions about her size and her looks, including her skin tone.

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“When I was in that lane, it was a cruel reality,” she said of people criticizing her and their relationship. “A lot of people began to fight against that because of the weight issue and because I was a dark-skinned girl with full lips. To them, that just didn’t go together.”

She noted though that before he was mainstream big, he was literally big, too.

“But what they didn’t understand was he was overweight at one point,” she said. “They just didn’t see that part.”

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“When they see him or anybody with weight on they immediately go, ‘Oh my God! What happened?'” she said of how people reacted when D’Angelo gained weight and faced legal issues years after the height of his success with “How Does It Feel,” where he sported serious abs. “Well you have to look at the history of a person. Who they become and who they are naturally is one in the same, but we go through phases in life.”

BEVERLY HILLS – DECEMBER 1: Recording artist Angie Stone attends the VH1 Save The Music Foundation Presents “VH1 Big Night For A Cause” benefit at the Esquire House 360 on December 1, 2006 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) 

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Stone has said that D’Angelo wasn’t the only fine man who has tried hard to vie for her affections. She told MadameNoire that Idris Elba tried to shoot his shot as well while appearing in her video for “I Wanna Thank You.”

“The sad part about it is I wasn’t checking for him like that,” she said. “And he was like, you know, we were very good friends, we had the same accountant, same manager, and for a very long time, he made it very public that he was in love with Angie Stone.”

LOS ANGELES, CA – JUNE 30: Singer/songwriter Angie Stone poses in the press room of the 2013 BET Awards at Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE on June 30, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Allen Berezovsky/WireImage)

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Stone said that after her experience being with D’Angelo and all that came with loving a super fine man, she couldn’t handle Elba.

“I had already been with D’Angelo,” she said. “I didn’t know what to do with these good looking guys digging Angie Stone.”

Looking back on that time, she did admit that she regretted not giving one of PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive winners a chance.

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She came close though when the actor turned his swag on for her when they were working on the video.

“There is one weak moment that I had because I have a thing for beautiful teeth,” she said. “And he came to the door, and I opened the door, and he was twirling this toothpick around in his teeth. And I fell on the side of the door like, ‘OK, what’s happening to me?'”

ATLANTA, GA – JUNE 03: Angie Stone performs during the 2017 Andrew Young International Leadership Awards at Philips Arena on June 3, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Chris McKay/Getty Images)

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As for her weight loss, she is just glad to be healthy and happy, especially with her deep family history of diabetes. The disease has ravaged her loved ones and she no longer has to worry about it.

“The reality is, my mom has diabetes. My aunt died with diabetes. My cousins have diabetes,” she said. “I am now diabetic-free. I no longer have to take insulin, the pills or anything.”

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – AUGUST 03: Singer Angie Stone performs onstage during the Tom Joyner “One More Time Experience” at Wolf Creek Amphitheater on August 03, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)