Wow, this is some vintage gossip. I feel so old, because I remember when this stuff happened the first time around. In 1989, Robin Givens and Mike Tyson got divorced. They had only been married for a year, but he was abusive and she walked away, and she began dating other men quickly, which irritated Tyson. In that same year, she had a fling with a then-up-and-coming actor named Brad Pitt. This was before Thelma and Louise, mind you, when Brad was just some struggling actor getting bit parts on TV shows. There were many rumors – later “confirmed” by Mike Tyson – that Tyson had confronted Brad and Robin, something like that. Tyson even claimed that he found Robin and Brad in bed together at one point, I guess? Well, Robin Givens was on Watch What Happens Live and she says that wasn’t the case at all:
Robin Givens is setting the record straight on her rumored affair with Brad Pitt. During her appearance on Sunday night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, a fan asked Givens, 54, if the claims made by her ex-husband Mike Tyson regarding her relationship with Pitt, 55, were true. In his memoir Undisputed Truth, Tyson, 52, alleged that he once drove to Givens’ house and saw her in a car with Pitt in the driveway after they had split. Tyson also claimed he caught Givens and Pitt in bed together while they were still married.
“Pulling up in the driveway, that part is true,” Givens said. “I didn’t read the book, but I was told he says he caught us in bed, which never happened. Never, ever, ever happened.”
When asked to elaborate on why she and Pitt were in the car together, Givens said, “We were coming from like a screening or something.”
Pitt had guest-starred on her show Head of the Class in the late 1980s. Host Andy Cohen went on to question another claim Tyson made — that he startled Pitt when he approached them in the driveway. Cohen, 51, explained Tyson alleged that Pitt said, “Don’t hit me, don’t hit me.”
“No,” Givens said, adding, “Does that sound like Brad? I mean, Brad’s got some swag, you know what I mean?” Givens said.
I sort of believe her. I think Tyson was obsessed with her and he was following her around, but I don’t think he would have confronted Brad. But I have to say, I remember when those rumors were going around the first time, and they weren’t all from Tyson’s book. That was basically one of Brad’s first tastes of the celebrity life, tabloid drama, all of that. And People Mag is basically implying that Robin denied that the affair with Brad took place – she is not. They definitely had a somewhat brief relationship. What she’s denying is that Mike “caught” them.
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I loved Tyson’s book!!!! Bawled my eyes out and I felt so much compassion for him and his story. Great book!
…….that’s your takeaway from Robyn telling her story about basically being stalked after being physically and emotionally abused by Tyson? Huh. Sympathizing with the abuser isn’t a great look.
Disgusting,
I feel for Robin. She was horribly abused.
Robin was telling the truth about his abuse and had her career ruined or stalled for years, when she was trying to find a way out of a horrible situation.
You don’t have to sympathize if you don’t want to, but there are many who grow up with mental illness and abuse who can empathize with that experience. At the time that they were together they were both at the height of their fame and he had lost his father figure, was being manipulated by his manager, and was in the throes of bipolar disorder. While not a “good look”, context matters.
We ARE talking about the guy that served several years in prison for raping Desiree Washington, correct? I feel a lot of compassion for her. Him, not so much.
Thank you. I haven’t forgotten that either.
I recognize he has mental health issues and a pretty rough life, but he passed abuse onto others, pretty horrific abuse.
Agreed.
Exactly. He’s a convicted rapist who acts like a baby. He can GFH.
I like Robyn, she went on to have a beautiful family and has kept pretty low key but is still working. Every woman Mike Tyson dated thereafter was a disaster looking to clean him out. Mind you Robyn got a fairly hefty chunk that set her up for a long time.
Saw him once, at a autograph signing event. He was very RUDE , Saying RUDE things, just not a nice person.
I have a friend who worked covering behind scenes at fights during his heyday and he told me eyewitness things about him that made me want to vomit.
Umm, you do remember that he was an abuser at the time, right??? And I’m assuming some of the women who “cleaned him out” had children he created and needed to care for, and that he abused those women too? I don’t mean to sound sanctimonious, but I’m just trying to be sensitive to the sexist assumptions people make about women in relationships with wealthy men (especially WOC), and the way our society still downplays abuse (that Tyson freely admits to) done by celeb men. Tyson was dumb with money for a long long time—women didn’t clean him out, he did that on his own. I’m glad he’s in a better place, and has gained wisdom and maturity with age, and i don’t think anyone would wish his upbringing on an enemy. But he was an abusive monster enabled by many people for a long time—I don’t think we should demonize the women who crossed his path in those times. Misogynoir is so insidious—I’m not calling you out. Our culture shows that It’s just that it’s not a far leap from those women cleaned him out and they “deserved what they got” in terms of his fists.
Yes. Thank you. He clearly struggled with some issues, and context is fine, but there is never ever an excuse for domestic violence. It’s just sickening to see that someone bawled their eyes out reading his memoir. I’m sure Robin Givens bawled her eyes out when he was abusing her, and basically forcing her to go on TV denying all of it.
Men piss me off with this viewpoint. They get involved with a woman, create a child, behave shabbily and then cry fowl when women make moves to care for their child.
No one cleaned Tyson out. He made a series of bad decisions, including the decision to get into circumstances that could lead to a birth of a child.
Yes, those women made the decisions as well but children need to be supported regardless.
And yes, it’s definitely a level of misogynoir that people expect black woman to either support a man regardless or be an “independent” woman post breakup lest they be called a gold digger
I think it is the other way round. Tyson had and still has an anger management problem. He would absolutely have confronted Brad Pitt if he caught him in bed with this then wife. And that would have made the news.
As no such story made the news back then, I consider it likely that it didn’t happen.
i agree with you. in fact, i think it is pretty safe to say if he found her in bed with brad pitt – tyson would have killed her, or both of them. he spent his life being the victim of and then the perpetrator of extreme violence. at that time he only new how to deal with things physically and violently. if he found them together in bed – it very well would have ended tragically.
All I have to say is that they both look wasted in the first pic.
Interesting too is that on WWHL Robyn was also asked about her relationship with Howard stern and how great he was to her when they dated.
Uhm, it absolutely sounds like she’s denying an affair.
She says they weren’t caught in bed together, absolutely not, but that Tyson saw them together in her driveway after the divorce, which isn’t an affair.
I do believe that if this actually happened, Brad Pitt would be dead. Mike Tyson has SO many anger issues and if he was in fact stalking Robyn and in that frame of mind, he would have killed any man he found her in bed with.
What I remember is the trashing Robyn Givens received when she left Tyson. It was an avalanche of hate that came her way. Awful just awful.
Same thing Denise suffered when she left Charlie Sheen.
I hate when people wrongly mis-identify wife beating as “anger management” issues. Woman abuse is about control and power, NOT anger. On another point, Robyn and Brad must have been a smoldering couple together– hot, hot, hot.
Is it weird that all I can think is, “I wish Brad and Robyn would have stayed together for an actual relationship. It would have been interesting seeing his version of mimicking her looks!”😆