Angie Stone and Idris Elba could have been an item back in the day, according to the 53-year-old songstress.
She told Madame Noire that while working on the visuals for her 2004 song, “I Wanna Thank Ya,” Elba, who was playing Stone’s love interest in the video, had eyes for the singer.
“When Idris and I were working on that song, Idris was actually crushing on me,” Stone said of the British-born movie star.
“The sad part about it is I wasn’t checking for him like that,” she continued. “And he was like, you know, we were very good friends, we had the same accountant, same manager, and for a very long time, he made it very public that he was in love with Angie Stone. And I had already been with D’Angelo.”
Stone and fellow soul singer D’Angelo dated for a few years in the ’90s and the two had a son, Michael D’Angelo Archer II, in 1998.
“I didn’t know what to do with these good looking guys digging Angie Stone,” she joked. “We became very close, but not in the way. So, Idris actually did a treatment for a video for me. There was a song called ‘I Can’t Take It’ that I did on one of my albums. And he did the video treatment. He was going to shoot the video, very beautiful, sensual treatment. And it was after that that I found out how he was, you know, going on with about twenty of his home boys, like, ‘She doesn’t want it.’”
She added, “There is one weak moment that I had because I have a thing for beautiful teeth. And he came to the door, and I opened the door, and he was twirling this toothpick around in his teeth. And I fell on the side of the door like, ‘Okay, what’s happening to me?’”
Although she admitted she would never date Elba because he’s like a brother to her, she said that if she could go back in time, things may have been different.
“Do I regret it? Absolutely,” she said.
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