Rosie Perez revealed she was the matchmaker responsible for setting up her ‘good friend’ Tupac Shakur with Madonna while appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show.
Three decades after the Queen of Pop, 66, and the late rap icon, who was tragically murdered at age 25 in 1996, secretly dated, Pérez, 60, divulged how they met while attending the 7th Annual Soul Train Music Awards in 1993 as their date.
Perez revealed that Shakur sweetly offered to accompany her to the event after her date abandoned her “half an hour” before she left for the awards show.
‘I didn’t know you were such good friends with Tupac Shakur back then. Do I have a correct story? Something about a date for something? Barrymore asked.
Perez proceeded to remember how her date called her and told her, ‘I can’t go with you because my girlfriend is going to see me.’
Rosie Perez revealed she was the matchmaker responsible for setting up her ‘good friend’ Tupac Shakur and Madonna while appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show; seen in 1993
After “exposing that truth” and hanging up on his original date, he said his phone started ringing and it was Shakur, who said, “I’m coming with you.” We’ll go in there, act like we’re on a date and he’s going to die.’
In the end, Pérez said he ran into Madonna, who asked him if they were a couple.
After explaining no, she says the Material Girl hitmaker asked her to “connect them.”
Perez responded: ‘You got it!’
Although they kept their relationship largely out of the spotlight, Shakur and Madonna reportedly dated on and off for almost two years, until they broke up in January 1995.
In 2017, a letter written by Shakur to the singer, dated January 15, 1995, revealed why he broke up with her.
“Being seen with a black man wouldn’t jeopardize your career in any way, if anything it would make you seem much more open and exciting.” But I, at least in my previous perception, felt that because of my ‘image’ I would be disappointing half the people who made me what I thought I was,” he allegedly wrote, according to ABC News.
He continued: “I never meant to hurt you.”
Three decades after the Queen of Pop, 66, and the late rap icon, who was tragically murdered at age 25 in 1996, secretly dated, Pérez, 60, divulged how they met while attending the 7th Annual Soul Train Music Awards in 1993 as its date
Although they kept their relationship largely out of the spotlight, Shakur and Madonna reportedly dated on and off for almost two years, until they broke up in January 1995 (seen in 1994).
Elsewhere in the three-page letter, Shakur wrote: “An interview in which you said ‘I’m going to rehabilitate all the rappers and basketball players’ or something like that… hurt me deeply… You never thought had known”. be with any rapper besides me.”
He also apologized for not being the kind of friend he is “capable of being.”
“Please understand my previous position as that of a young man with limited experience with (an) extremely famous sex symbol,” he said.
“I don’t know how you feel about visiting me, but if you could find it in your heart, I would love to talk to you face to face,” he concluded.
Pérez recalled that Madonna asked him to ‘connect’ them, which he did
According FashionThe letter was written during his stay at the Clinton Correctional Facility.
Madonna was 34 and Tupac was 21 when they dated in the early 1990s.