Brandy has accused Boys II Men's Wanya Morris of "taking advantage" of her when she was a teenager.
The 47-year-old singer claimed in her new memoir Phases that she was just 16 when she began dating Wanya, who was in his early 20s, after they collaborated on Brokenhearted in 1994, but they tried to keep their romance under wraps, both because of the "scandal" it would bring and also because Brandy knew her parents wouldn't approve.
According to People magazine, she wrote: "I was in over my head. Sneaking around with Wanya and lying to my parents had become a constant. They barely liked the idea of me dating at all, and telling them about us was out of question.
"But it wasn’t just about upsetting — or disappointing — my parents.
"Wanya and I understood, with diamond-cut clarity that public knowledge of our relationship would ignite scandal, potentially threatening everything we'd both worked for, so he and I opted for elaborate fiction: we would pretend patience and claim we were waiting until my eighteenth birthday before pursuing any romantic connection."
Brandy - who lost her virginity to Wanya - accused the star of getting harder to track down and asking her to page him before calling, as well as comparing her to other R+B singers, particularly Mariah Carey, who he had sang with on One Sweet Day.
She wrote: "These are the things that with hindsight you realise are wildly obvious signs of something wrong.
"Neon warning signs that I chose to ignore because I didn't know what the hell I was doing, or what he was doing with me. Just that I was in love — or what I believed was love."
The Boy is Mine singer claimed how Wanya - who she split from after he admitted being unfaithful - had spent years describing their romance as "the young ingénue having a schoolgirl crush and getting her heart broken," but insisted that isn't the case.
She said: "I believe he took advantage.
"The shame ends here. The silence ends here.
"I was not a fast girl with a crush. I was not a dramatic teenager who couldn't handle rejection. I was not an unstable obsessive fan. I was a child. And he was an adult. And it's time the world understood the difference."
