Christina Milian has a "very special relationship" with Lil Wayne

The 33-year-old singer said: "The deal is he's my man...crush. I think he's awesome. He and I have a very special relationship and I think I've always been very careful with it publicly because when you have something special it's like everybody picks apart words. They'll pick apart a moment in a picture and take something that's special and trash it."

But Christina, who has five-year-old daughter Violet from a previous marriage, claims she no longer cares what critics think.

She told the May issue of Latina magazine: "I'm just in a new place. I'm a grown woman. The haters are definitely wrong if they think I care. I can't figure you people out. I just want to do me.

"I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyse things in a different way, but I don't over analyse either. I still gotta live life, but being able to look at myself and recognise my own faults makes me the more mature Christina that I am today."