Richard Marx never took any notice of the amorous female fans who swarmed him in the ’80s and ’90s.
The “Right Here Waiting” crooner tells Page Six in a recent exclusive interview that “of course” he had groupies, but “that wasn’t really much of a trapping for me back then.”
Marx explains that he ignored them for two reasons.
“I was already dating the woman who would become my first wife [‘Dirty Dancing’ star Cynthia Rhodes],” he shares, “and we were together for almost 30 years.”
The Grammy winner says he didn’t want to “be a douchebag” and “it was a little easier for me to resist because I had this sense of, I was still the guy in high school who couldn’t get a date.”
“And then all of a sudden, overnight, I have a big video on MTV and now all these girls are throwing themselves at m