"It was love at first sight" they say... or at least that's what new artist Rita Ora is saying about her old fling with fellow artist Bruno Mars. In a recent interview, Rita admits that before all the fame hit them, Bruno was actually catching grenades for her.

Now that she's rumored to be dating Rob Kardashian, she's coming clean about her innocent love life with the "Lazy Song" singer when she was only 18. The Daily Mail U.K. reports: "We met in 2009. I was 18 and starting out at Roc Nation. Bruno was unknown back then too.He was a struggling songwriter hired to write songs for me. I thought: "Wow, that's just the world's greatest guy!"'

Apparently, once they became a somebody, the work schedule became and problem and they ended it last year. However, the two remained close.

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