USHER - USHER'S FIRST LOVE WILL TREASURE MEMORY FOREVER

R+B star USHER's first lover has revealed how they lost their virginity to each other - a memory she'll "treasure forever".

Childhood sweetheart SHANIKA CLARK met the BURN singer when she was 12 and he was 13 in Tennessee - when he had to ask his mother if he could date.

Clark says, "I remember the first time we kissed and were intimate. We were across the street at my friend's house. He was nothing spectacular. I suppose neither of us knew what we were doing.

"But he made me feel special and I've never forgotten that feeling. He was very romantic and he would sing songs to me on the phone.

"It's funny to see him now with the six-pack. He didn't have a body like that when I was with him, he was just a boy."

The couple split up after Usher and his mum left the neighbourhood for Atlanta, Georgia - the hub of R+B.

Clark adds, "When he left he said he was going to Atlanta, but he didn't say he wouldn't be coming back.

"No girl forgets the first time, and I'll treasure the memory forever."