ESSENCE.COM: That's great to hear. So do you think The Supremes will ever be reunited?
WILSON: Well, that's always been one of my biggest dreams. I kept The Supremes image alive for many, many years in the hopes that something like that might happen. It all depends if Diane [Ross] wants to do it. I personally would and again, I've kept The Supremes image alive through the European exhibit of the group's wardrobe with all of our gowns, which first debuted at the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame Museum. Diane and I don't talk often, but we do special things together, like when I lost my son in 1994 she reached out to me, and on certain occasions we keep in touch.

ESSENCE.COM: Our hearts go out to you and your family for the loss of your your 14-year-old son in car accident while you were driving. How have you been coping all these years?
WILSON: You always feel some kind of guilt whether or not you could have protected your child or prevented it altogether. But as people we have to understand that sometimes things happen and there's nothing you can do about it. I was not drinking or sleeping behind the wheel of the car when it happened as some people reported. As a parent even when your child is away from home you worry and if you didn't' feel something what kind of parent would you be? Of course, you want to sacrifice that for your child and ask, Why couldn't it have been me? I know some people who have lost children and they just deteriorated and have never been the same. I've found a way of coping with it and that is the realization that death is a part of life. There is a certain coding on each of our lives and we don't always necessarily understand why. The loss of my son has helped me become stronger and make me promise myself that I will do the best I can in life. So you never really get over it. My other son told me, Mom, it's like a hole in my heart and I said, "I know; mine, too, but the blessing is you still have your heart and his memory to fill it with." So that's how me and my family cope, but I am in such a good place and the happiest I've ever been because I am living my life.

ESSENCE.COM: When you think about your legacy is there anything you'd like to set the record straight on about Mary Wilson?
WILSON: I think early on because of Florence's situation, people thought I wasn't strong and that I should have done more, but that's not the way I am. I have always been very strong but soft. If I see there is smoothing I can not fix then I don't try to fix it. One journalist wrote that I was fluff and that's not true. I prepared myself to do what I needed to do. I was never about fighting for anything that I know I'm not going to win. I prefer to put my energy some place else. Everyone fights differently. Do I have some regrets? Of course, I wish I knew more about certain things and perhaps, my decisions would have been different. For years, I've been fighting over what I'm going to put on my tombstone and I know the essence of what it will say is that she was a person who lived her life always with the thought of kindness, honestly and peacefulness. With me, I don't play games. What you see is what you get.