DeniseHux
General Manager
Don't know if she introduced Marvin to it.
As for Ruffin and Tammi, it's been stated by several people who knew them that Tammi Terrell was the female version of David Ruffin, but for some reason, David is the one who is always made out to be the villain.
Here's a quote from a book about the Temptions concerning Tammi Terrell Amazon.com: Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations (9780470261170): Mark Ribowsky: Gateway
"...David got major pussy. Let me tell you, Tammi Terrell was major pussy. Of course, she also was an accident waiting to happen. She was wild, she'd been turned on to drugs, hard drugs, cocaine. She got David hooked on drugs. That's a fact. Look, David was an accident waiting to happen too, but she got him into all his destructive behavior. Him roughing her up, I'm not making excuses for that. But it was a factor of what Tammi was."
Why you never hear about this? People have always had an obsession with painting this picture that Marvin and Tammi were two sweet, perfect little angels and David Ruffin was the big bad wolf. You won't hear about Tammi being a substance abusive hoe who loved to live the fast life or Marvin being a substance abusing, woman-beating cross dresser. You never even hear about the wrongs the other Temps or even other Motown artists did. Just David. He's the scapegoat.
Another thing mentioned on unsung that had me smh was the part about their engagement. Yes, David was married when he proposed to Tammi. BUT, what they didn't mention was that David was separated from his wife and living with another woman who was pregnant with his child. Tammi didn't know about the wife, but she DID know about the pregnant girlfriend. So basically, Tammi was the home-wrecker who later found out that she herself had been played. If this were the average woman, we'd be talking about how she got her karma for dating another woman's man. But since it's Tammi Terrell, I guess it's ok that David cheated on his other women with her but bad that he lied to her about his wife.
They never talk about her faults. I still feel sorry for her even though I know about her ugly side, but I hate it when people say that David Ruffin got what he deserved because of the way he treated her when she treated him just as bad. Like Tammi, David had been a victim of some of the things that he encountered in his life. Both of them deserved better.