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Cynthia Bailey could have been Lenny Kravitz’s “American Woman” — if he didn’t allegedly ghost her.
On the November 1 episode ofTeddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge’s podcast, Two Ts in a Pod, the former Real Housewives of Atlanta star, 55, claimed that the singer, 60, didn’t follow through after asking a friend for her number at Mick Jagger’s 80th birthday party in London last year.
“He was really nice,” Bailey said, noting that Kravitz “didn’t seem overly interested or anything,” but then asked Jagger’s fiancée, Melanie Hamrick, for her number.
Mellencamp asked her if he asked for other people’s numbers, to which Bailey joked, “that I don’t know. Apparently so. He didn’t use my damn number!”
Still, she confessed that she wanted to be “really cool” around the four-time Grammy winner even though she “didn’t really feel any sparks.”
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Their encounter comes after Bailey split from her second husband, Mike Hill. They wed in 2020 and divorced in 2022.
She detailed the reason for their split on a 2022 episode of Two Ts in a Pod, saying, “I felt like we weren’t friends anymore. I felt like it was just going toward we’re just not going to be friends if we didn’t pump the brakes.”
“This is not my first rodeo,” she added. “I think friendship just has to be there in a marriage. Like, love is great, but friendship has to be there. I truly want to be with my best friend.”
She was previously married to Peter Thomas from 2010 until 2017.
Meanwhile, Kravitz married Lisa Bonet in 1987. They welcomed their daugher Zoë in 1988 and divorced in 1993. He has dated women including Vanessa Paradis, Kylie Minogue and Adriana Lima since their split.
He told The Guardian earlier this year that he vowed to remain celibate until he remarries — and that he had not been in a serious relationship for nine years.
