Timbaland Admits to Being In Love with Aaliyah in Revealing E! Special
When Timbaland and Aaliyah were in the studio together, they created some of the biggest hits in the late 90s including 'Are You That Somebody,' 'One in a Million' and 'Try Again.' However, Timbo's professional relationship with the late songbird soon turned into infatuation. In a revealing E! True Hollywood Story special, the hitmaker admits that he was in love with Aaliyah.
"When I first met Aaliyah, I was in love with her. I said, 'But I'm not … she just a baby [and] I'm old,'" he says. "I said to myself, 'I'm just gonna be her brother.' Oh man, I was fightin', I was fightin' a lot -- a big war. But I loved Aaliyah."
This was probably a wise move on Timbaland's part. Who knows what could have happened if he would have pursued a love affair with the R&B songbird? Both of their careers could have gone into different directions.
Also in the special, Timbaland talks about his battle with the bulge and being 400-pounds overweight and having man boobs. "I'm looking in the mirror, my breast is bigger than a girl breast," he says. "And I was saying, 'That ain't cool.' So I got very depressed, like suicidal depressed."
Luckily, he conquered his depression and became a competitive bodybuilder. He's currently happily married to his wife, Monique. "It's probably hard to be married to me," he says. "It's not easy. I'm a musical genius. I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm. But I'm a loving guy."
E!'s 'True Hollywood Story: Timbaland' will air on Dec. 20 at 9PM EST.
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