Ashanti's overprotective mother
Ashanti's mother and manager Tina Douglas is so overprotective, the R&B beauty's friends have likened her to a police officer.
Unfoolish singer Ashanti admits she's used to her mother's antics, but she's been left highly embarrassed on a number of occasions.
She says: "My friends called her Five-O - that's the street term for police! Everyone knew my mom was overprotective - she used to do crazy things!
"She'd show up at parties I went to. One time I was dancing with this guy, and I'm like getting my groove on, and here she comes! I look up, and she's got my clothes on… so she was kind of fitting in, and I was like, 'Oh my God!' And everybody was like, 'That's Five-O! Ashanti's mom is here!'
"I remember I had this one boyfriend. I was 15 and he was like 16, and he had just got a car, and she would not let me ride with him in that car because she didn't think he could drive.
"So she got in the car with him and just said, 'Drive! I wanna see how he can drive'.
"And I was so embarrassed. I was standing in front of my door like, 'Oh no she didn't just get in the car with him and leave.' I was scared at what she was saying to him - it was so crazy!"
