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Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas is a unit to beryllium reckoned with. As 1/3 of the 90s sensation TLC, alongside Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes and Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, she roseate to fame with hits similar “Waterfalls,” “No Scrubs,” and “Creep.” At the tallness of their fame, the talented trio garnered an American Music Award, aggregate Grammys, and a slew of MTV Video Music Awards. Their wide publicized bankruptcy, and Lisa’s tragic decease successful a car clang connected April 25, 2002, presented challenges and grief for Chilli, but she went connected to merchandise a mates of solo singles and adjacent appeared successful the euphony video for Tyrese‘s deed “Nothing On You.”
She besides starred successful 2 seasons of a VH1 world bid based connected her beingness called What Chilli Wants. Behind the scenes — and sometimes adjacent successful afloat nationalist presumption — she besides had a bid of high-profile relationships with celebrated men. In fact, she’s presently dating histrion Matthew Lawrence. Read connected to find retired astir each of Rozanda ‘Chilli’ Thomas’ astir serious romanticist relationships.
Dallas Austin
According to The US Sun, Chilli dated TLC shaper Dallas Austin throughout astir of the 1990s — and helium produced immoderate of the group’s astir memorable hits. During an occurrence of her world series, she opened up astir an termination she had portion with Dallas. She besides admitted to profoundly regretting the decision, and getting large again with Dallas. They ended up having a lad together.
“I was 20 and my vocation hadn’t truly started, [and I got pregnant],” she said during the show, per Buzzfeed. “How bash I bash each that? How bash I beryllium a mommy? [The abortion] messed maine up — it broke my spirit. I felt similar I became not my beardown aforesaid anymore. I felt similar I gave successful and broke [down] to what idiosyncratic other wanted. I cried astir each time for 9 years. And past I was caught up — I had to person a baby. I had to hole it, and the lone mode I could hole it was with him [Dallas]. I could lone person this babe with him due to the fact that the babe I didn’t person was with him. As clip went on, I was capable to interruption distant from the narration due to the fact that I knew that helium was ever being existent to himself — I was not. I was compromising who I was arsenic a idiosyncratic to delight this person, and I deliberation truthful galore women bash that.”
The duo welcomed their lad Tron Austin connected June 2, 1997. Not agelong afterwards, they went their abstracted ways.
Usher
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R&B prima Usher was Chilli’s adjacent superior relationship. Both were members of the LaFace Record Group, and the romance was natural. They began dating successful 2001, and successful the consequent 2 years, she appeared successful respective of his iconic euphony videos, including U Don’t Have to Call, U Remind Me, and U Got It Bad.
They divided successful 2003, but she’s spoken retired aggregate times astir however hard it was to get him retired of her system, adjacent admitted they were inactive successful interaction erstwhile helium got joined to present ex-wife Tameka Foster. “I emotion hard,” she told PEOPLE in June of 2023. “I was like, ‘God, wherefore can’t I get implicit this? He couldn’t either.”
After it was over, she admitted, “I adjacent stopped dating. Because earlier that I thought if I met the close feline during that clip that I wasn’t implicit [Usher] it wouldn’t work. I would ne'er privation to straddle the fence.” She besides revealed that they had “working chemistry.” “We decidedly had immoderate chemistry,” she explained. “But moving chemistry does not mean it works successful your idiosyncratic life. If we were working, it was great. But extracurricular of that, we’re truthful different.”
In a 2013 interview, she recalled their breakup arsenic well. “We broke up due to the fact that I conjecture it was that clip oregon whatever…he was that existent emotion for me,” she confessed to Us Weekly at the time. “In immoderate relationship, adjacent erstwhile it came to my narration with Usher, erstwhile it was clip to marque a move, I had to bash that. I don’t attraction however overmuch my bosom was hurting, sometimes you’re conscionable expected to beryllium with radical for a crushed and it’s not ever a lifetime. Even if you privation it to be, it conscionable doesn’t enactment retired that way.”
Nick Cannon
Unconfirmed reports emerged successful July of 2016 that Chilli was “hanging retired romantically” with serial dada Nick Cannon. “Nick and Chilli [have] been hanging retired connected the low, ” an insider reportedly told E! News. “[They’ve] been friends for immoderate clip and conscionable precocious this summertime they person been hanging retired romantically.” The root besides said that “Chilli is simply a precise mature pistillate that’s been astir the euphony manufacture for immoderate clip and gets it,” and added the tidbit that “Nick has ever had a crush connected her increasing up. He thinks she is beautiful.”
“They are not an exclusive mates astatine this clip conscionable casually hanging retired and seeing wherever things go,” the root said. Neither Chilli nor Nick person ever addressed the dating rumors.
Matthew Lawrence
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Sometime successful November of 2022, the TLC vocalist began dating Dancing with the Stars pro Cheryl Burke’s ex-husband, Matthew Lawrence. By January of 2023, Chilli’s rep had confirmed to TMZ that the mates are in an “exclusive relationship.” They made the narration Instagram official by dancing successful their pajamas via societal media conscionable earlier the caller year. But months earlier that, they were besides spotted vacationing unneurotic successful Hawaii successful August of 2022.
In May of 2023, she gushed astir the information that she hadn’t had a azygous combat with the Boy Meets World histrion during their relationship. “I ne'er thought the sanction ‘Matthew’ would marque maine blush truthful much,” the vocalist told PEOPLE. “I ever thought he was cute.” She past added, “To this time we person not had 1 argument. I’m similar ‘Matthew, it’s gonna hap 1 day, origin we’re going to beryllium unneurotic forever.'”
Matthew seems to consciousness the aforesaid way. “My beingness is successful implicit bloom close now,” the TV prima told ET back successful March. “I get to walk clip with an astonishing pistillate similar Chilli. I’ve ne'er gotten to beryllium capable to acquisition that benignant of narration before. She’s really, truly special.”
Though Cheryl seemed taken aback by Chilli and Matthew’s relationship, it didn’t look until astir a twelvemonth aft they announced their split successful February of 2022. Meanwhile, the TLC star has support from different of the astir important men successful her beingness — her son, Tron. “I conscionable similar seeing her happy, you know?” helium told People during an April 2023 interview. “I privation them each the champion and I deliberation he’s a large guy.”
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