R&B Singer Olivia Opens Up About Past with Shaggy, 50 Cent in “Release Me: My Life, My Words”

VH1(NEW YORK) — Most people had no idea that R&B singer Olivia and reggae singer Shaggy dated on and off for years. The R&B singer and reality star opens up about their tumultuous relationship in her new book, Release Me: My Life, My Words.

Olivia tells ABC News Radio that after being criticized for being so closed to fans about her private life, she was finally ready to shed light on her romances. “It was the one industry relationship I had and it was like a long one for me,” she adds. “The Jamaican community knew, obviously, but I never would promote it to anybody else purposely. He still is a great guy, but I mean he’s not a good boyfriend.”

Olivia writes in Release Me that she eventually broke things off with the “It Wasn’t Me” singer after she discovered he was cheating on her with two different women — one in his native Jamaica and another college-aged woman. Olivia writes she found out about the second woman after going through his phone and reading “a message from some college girl asking him to bring condoms the next time he came to her dorm because they were out.”

Olivia said that although they’ve broken up for good — and she’s happy with her boyfriend, professional basketball player Tarence Kinsey — she still runs in the same circle as Shaggy, even performing on shows together. “It’s so crazy because I’m still like super cool with all of his people,” she continues. “So I know that has to be super awkward for him because they’re all like, ‘Oh my God, we love Olivia to death,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I hate Shaggy’s guts.'”

In her new book, Olivia also clears up rumors that she dated 50 Cent, the founder of G Unit Records, where she was signed as the label’s first female artist back in 2004. Olivia writes that the two spent so much time together that they did have a “growing attraction” toward each other. Still, she writes that he eventually convinced her to keep their relationship strictly platonic. According to Liv, Fiddy told her, “‘We can never cross that line, because I think it will ruin everything. There is far too much money to be made, and besides, I know you ain’t that type of chick. I have a lot of respect for you, so I wouldn’t even do you like that. If you and I started messing around, we’d never be able to convince the rest of the world that we are not.'”

Olivia tells ABC News Radio that she still learned a lot from 50 as a business man. “[I learned], even though sometimes I feel like I should hold my tongue, to say what I feel,” she explains, “he would just have me in so many meetings where I would just see him not hold his mouth for anything — doesn’t matter if the president was in there, the CEO, the mailman, it was always going to be the same response.”

Although she was dropped from G Unit in 2007, Olivia said that she and 50 have moved on. “We’re cool whenever we see each other. So for everybody [who says] like, ‘Oh, there’s beef,’ no, we don’t. We’re fine,” she says.

Olivia adds that she and her G Unit family made great memories together. “You know we really were like a family. We did everything together — like not just the tours. We all went to eat together. We would go to each other’s houses. We would ride the dirt bikes. Like, we did everything,” she explains.

Olivia tells ABC News Radio she’s now working on a new album with Grammy Award-winning producer Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis titled Where Do I Go from Here. She says fans can expect song and songwriting collaborations with Missy Elliott, Wale, Luke James and Ne-Yo. Although her single of the same name was released last year and hit #10 on the iTunes charts, there’s no word on when to expect the full album.

Release Me: My Life, My Words is in stores now.

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