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MUHAMMAD ALI's ex-wife Khalilah dishes on Ali!

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๐Š๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐ก ๐€๐ฅ๐ข was married to arguably the most famous person in the world at the time in the late 1960โ€™s. If you need a hint of who she married, he floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. Yes indeed... ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐€๐ฅ๐ข He was, in my humble opinion, the greatest athlete in the world in his sport of all-time. In fact, he was never shy about proclaiming that he was the Greatestโ€ฆand he certainly backed up his words. Khalilah is the author of ๐”๐ง๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐: ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐”๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐…๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ .

In this podcast interview, Khalilah and I discuss:
-What year she first meet Muhammad Ali and how she meet him
-How old she was when she married Muhammad Ali and in what year
-What role she had in changing his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali
-Why Cassius Clay embraced the Nation of Islam
-Why did Muhammad choose not to be drafted for the Vietnam War and what kind of opposition did he face as well as support
-What was it like for her and Muhammad Ali to go through his suspension from boxing and the anticipation of possible jail time
-How did Muhammad earn income during his suspension.
-What was it like meeting Elvis Presley?
-What was it like hanging with the Rat Pack, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. etc.
-Which other celebrities did she hang out with
-As her book subtitle indicates about forgiveness, who is she forgiving and what is she healing from
-What she hopes people take away from her book and how she wants people to view Khalilah Ali
-The 1976 Dean Martin Roast
-Her time in Beverly Hills knocking on the doors of Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, Milton Berle and Jimmy Stewart.
-When and why she divorced
-What kind of relationship did she have up until he died
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