…headstrong ’cause she knew she was the finest woman in the world. She never missed an opportunity to tell you that.”
He went on to share how they used to joke with each other and had a playful relationship. He finished by saying that Denise would want to be celebrated and not mourned.
Matthews expressed no regrets about leaving her celebrity lifestyle behind.
“When I was Vanity, it was all about me,” she said in 1999. “But when I’m preaching the word of God, it’s Jesus Christ speaking through me. I don’t want people to know who I was back then, but the new creature that God has made me.”