Inside The Love Triangle That Adina Howard Claims Ended Her Career

Publish date: 2024-05-03

It all started when Adina Howard, a new darling of the music industry in the '90s, had an affair with Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men — which was by then an already massively popular group. There was just one snag though: as detailed in the docuseries Unsung, Morris was already attached to someone else. And that someone else was Brandy, a way bigger, bankable star than Howard and a celebrity with a squeaky clean image that was the polar opposite of Howard's unapologetically promiscuous style. "Two young ladies, a lot of their egos get in the way and were kind of going through it about a guy," Howard says in the episode. But it wasn't just the ladies themselves who were feeling some kind of way over their shared bae. 

When whispers about Howard and Morris' fling reached the ears of high-powered music exec — Howard's boss — Sylvia Rhone, the love triangle got even more complex and complicated. Unbeknownst to Howard at the time, she was about to make some regrettable choices that would put her fate and entire career on the line, ending in disastrous results for her. Rhone is widely regarded as the most influential woman in the music business ever, as per Variety, so when Howard made the mistake of crossing her, she learned the hard way that making an enemy at the executive level can have consequences that no amount of talent, drive, or buzz could ever fix. 

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