Kavelle Anglin-Christie, Staff Reporter

Ninja Man goes shopping with his girlfriend Wendy Brown during a day in the life with 'the STAR' recently. - Ian Allen

Meet the woman beside the gold teeth, front teeth, Don Gorgon; the woman he says changed his life: Wendy Brown.

She's not the type many might expect Ninja Man to have by his side - attractive, quiet, refined and educated.

Still, theirs is a strange love story; one, some may even turn their noses up at, nonetheless it's their love story.

For those of you who don't know, Ninja Man was in a relationship with Wendy's sister, Keisha, but as fate would have it, Ninja and Wendy, also his road manager, soon fell in love.

She spoke of how the dynamic of the relationship changed: "One time when we travelled, he started hugging me a different way, and I started to feel uncomfortable. But he was like, 'we're just brothers and sisters ah nuh nothing', but he never came upfront with it. He always treated me like a lady. I don't even know when exactly it happen ... "

"... I was his road manager. So I guess the respect draw from there and I was the person whenever anything happened, he sent for me to rectify it," she said.

Since then, it's been one year filled with mixed reactions from friends, family and onlookers. She says the couple was able to survive the rocky times because of the friendship they had formed prior to their relationship.

"We've been friends for six years. It helps a lot because you know as a friend you get to know each other, especially the bad things that if you were in a relationship you wouldn't get to know if you weren't close," she said.

Hand-in-hand with Ninja she says she is able to face the difficulties that came with the relationship, including his hectic schedule and ignoring the rumour mill.

"Well, the ups and downs of music and being out on the road every night is rough and that situation with my sister, I was a little uncomfortable with it. At times I do feel a little uncom-fortable, but he always en-courages me and says stuff like 'you know the true you, so don't listen to them'."

Wendy says though the relationship with her sister isn't what it used to be, it has improved. Still, she is uncomfortable.

"Well, yes, we talk, but is not the same. She always saying that I should come and talk to her but I feel uncomfortable," she said.

Despite everything, she says there are no regrets: "No I don't regret it. I mean I regret certain things like with my sister, but I don't regret the relationship."

She also spoke of the wedding bells that quit ringing earlier this year: "It was supposed to happen. He wanted to do it for his birthday but I told him to wait. You have to do it when everything is all right. Sometimes it's best if you sit and wait because it doesn't make any sense that you get married today and tomorrow you divorce."

Don't be fooled, there's still more to Wendy than being Ninja's woman. The St. Mary native is still clinging to her childhood dream of becoming a nurse, that was deferred when she went into the hotel industry instead.

"I went straight to work out of high school. I worked at a hotel as a kids coordinator then I resigned. I did that for 14 years, but I want to go back to school and continue my dream, but I want to further it from nurse to doctor. But because of the ups and downs with Ninja as his road manager it's difficult, but I've been talking to him about it."