{"id":2502859,"date":"2026-07-15T10:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2502859"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:47:21","slug":"tracee-ellis-ross-names-celebrity-friend-of-mom-diana-ross-who-frightened-her-growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tracee-ellis-ross-names-celebrity-friend-of-mom-diana-ross-who-frightened-her-growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracee Ellis Ross Names Celebrity Friend of Mom Diana Ross Who \u2018Frightened\u2019 Her Growing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tracee Ellis Ross<\/strong><\/a> grew up rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, but one of her mom Diana Ross<\/strong><\/a>\u2019 friends left a particular impression.<\/p>\n

Tracee, 52, named some of the celebrities she has been \u201cstarstruck\u201d by on the Tuesday, July 14, episode of the \u201cBaby, This Is Keke Palmer<\/a>\u201d podcast, recalling how she met Lucille Ball<\/strong> as a young girl and Marvin Gaye<\/strong> regularly called the family home.<\/p>\n

She then said, \u201cAndy Warhol<\/strong> painted me and my sisters,\u201d referring to her siblings, Rhonda<\/strong>, 54, and Chudney<\/strong>, 50. (Diana shares Rhonda with Berry Gordy<\/strong> and Tracee and Chudney with first husband Robert Ellis Silberstein<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI was not starstruck \u2014 I was actually frightened,\u201d the Black-ish<\/em><\/a> actress went on to reveal.<\/p>\n

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\u201cProbably the look? He had a very distinct look,\u201d host Keke Palmer<\/strong> suggested, referring to Warhol, who was known for his shock-white hair.<\/p>\n

Tracee responded, \u201cI did not understand what was happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In 1981, Warhol photographed Diana, 82, Tracee and her sisters for silkscreen artwork commissioned by the legendary singer. One of the portraits was later used by Diana for the cover of her 1982 album Silk Electric<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Tracee previously opened up about growing up with a famous mom<\/a> in a 2023 interview with Flaunt<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

The Girlfriends<\/em> star said that while there were often A-list names around, her mom wasn\u2019t a big \u201cpartier.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, Michael Jackson<\/strong> was around. Marvin Gaye called the house all the time. Cher<\/strong> and my dad and my mom and Michael played doubles tennis. Andy Warhol photographed me. You know what I mean?\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n

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Despite Diana\u2019s fame, Tracee said she had a fairly normal childhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom, of course, has led a very public life, but she is such a private person and such a home person. She\u2019s a mom before she\u2019s \u2018Diana Ross,\u2019\u201d Tracee said. \u201cMy childhood was very anchored in real family life. My mom was home, my mom came and woke me up for school.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, my mom had a unique job, but I wasn\u2019t this crazy person standing out in my school because of that, or was in a situation where my life was so different from everyone else,\u201d she continued. \u201cThere were certain unique things, but my mom woke us up for school in the morning. We would sit down and have dinner together. She would record when we were asleep at night. She never left for longer than a week. All of those kinds of things were very much a part of who I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tracee Ellis Ross grew up rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, but one of her mom Diana Ross\u2019 friends left a particular impression. Tracee, 52, named some of the celebrities she has been \u201cstarstruck\u201d by on the Tuesday, July 14, episode of the \u201cBaby, This Is Keke Palmer\u201d podcast, recalling how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2502860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tracee-Ellis-Ross-Names-Celebrity-Friend-of-Mom-Diana-Ross.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502861,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502859\/revisions\/2502861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}