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Eve is peeling back the curtain on her life in the spotlight—and she’s not holding back. In her new memoir Who’s That Girl?, the Ruff Ryders first lady retraces her rise from Philly battler to Grammy-winning star, blending moments of triumph with raw honesty. One of the most surprising reveals? A short-lived romance with infamous Death Row Records boss Suge Knight back in 2001.
The rapper says sparks first flew at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards, where she was cohosting and learned Knight was in attendance. Against her bodyguard’s advice, she decided to make the first move. “Hi, I have been wanting to meet you,” she recalled saying.
Eve admittedly got involved with Suge back in 2001 mainly to get back at Dr. Dre after their business relationship fell apart. “Having Suge, his former boss at Death Row, stomping around Interscope felt like some sweet revenge.”
The bold introduction quickly turned into dinner, with Suge promising to back her career during a rocky period at Interscope. He even started showing up at the label’s offices on her behalf—something Eve now believes caused friction with exec Jimmy Iovine. “I feel like he (Jimmy) took his anger out on my third album,” she writes.
But Eve insists her fling with Knight wasn’t about business. “Red plants, red furs… he’s a Blood. Maybe my red hair was a green flag for him too,” she jokes in the book.
The relationship didn’t last long, thanks to Ruff Ryders bosses Dee and Waah Dean, who shut it down fast. “They didn’t like the idea of me hanging out with Suge at all. When my guys said it was time to cut the cord, I didn’t think twice,” she says.
When she called to end things, Knight was surprisingly understanding. “If I was your little sis, I would tell you the same thing,” he told her.
The revelation is just one of many headline-making moments in Eve’s new memoir, where she finally lays it all out.
