Halle Bailey secured a brief restraining order Tuesday towards rapper DDG, alleging that the daddy of their son Halo was abusive all through their two-year relationship and has continued to behave badly since they broke up final yr.
The “Little Mermaid” star, 25, and the rapper-blogger, 27, whose actual title is Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr. break up up in October, declaring on the time that they had been “still best friends.” Son Halo was born in December 2023 after Bailey labored laborious to maintain her being pregnant off the radar.
“Throughout our relationship and continuing to date, Darryl has been and continues to be physically, verbally, emotionally, and financially abusive towards me,” she stated in court docket paperwork reviewed by The Occasions. “I am seeking orders to protect myself and our son Halo from his ongoing abuse.”
The TRO was granted by a Los Angeles County Superior Court docket decide. Bailey indicated in court docket paperwork that she was involved for her security and that of their son, Halo Saint Granberry, and requested that DDG be ordered to keep away from each of them. No advance discover was given to DDG as a result of Bailey was afraid he would retaliate with violence or by taking Halo out of the world, the paperwork stated.
“That can’t even be real,” DDG stated, gazing his cellphone.
He’s quickly prohibited from approaching Bailey and his son or contacting them via any means together with digital.
In her declaration, Bailey accused DDG of “badmouthing” her to his tens of millions of followers on Twitch and YouTube at any time when he “wants to cause upset.”
“He claims I am withholding our son and that I am with other men. As a result, I then receive threats and hate on social media. He seems to try to set up drama for his fans. He goes ‘live’ ranting about me and alleges that I am keeping Halo from him. This is false. I have requested a set schedule, which he refuses.”
She additionally stated he continuously calls her “b—” and says she is “evil.” She additionally detailed one bodily altercation from January of this yr.
DDG went to Bailey’s home on Jan. 18, she stated within the declaration, to select up Halo. She stated she requested DDG when he would return the kid and alleged he wouldn’t give her a solution.
“The discussion continued as I walked with him outside to assist to put Halo into the car seat. I was buckling the baby into his seat and physically got into the back seat to adjust the car seat. I had left my front door open and was not even fully dressed as I was not even wearing shoes. Darryl kept repeating ‘Get out of my car, B—.’ Halo was crying.”
Bailey stated she was nervous leaving the infant along with her agitated ex and repeatedly pleaded with him to cease calling her a b—. Then the argument escalated, she stated.
“The next thing I knew, things got physical between us. We fought each other, wrestling and tussling. At one point, Darryl was pulling my hair. He then slammed my face on the steering wheel, causing my tooth to get chipped. I then stopped fighting back as I was in a lot of pain,” Bailey wrote.
“I wanted to get out of the car with Halo but was now stuck. Darryl then said that since I would not leave the baby in the car, he would take me with them. He drove quickly towards his house. When we arrived at his house, I was crying and told his family what happened. I begged his family who were there to help me figure out a schedule with him. They said just leave Halo and go. I left hysterical. I had bruises over my arms and a chipped tooth.”
Bailey additionally detailed a violent incident on March 7 that ended up along with her submitting a police report. She and Halo had been dwelling sick with RSV when DDG came to visit to see his son, whom Bailey didn’t need to go away the home due to his sickness. That angered DDG, she stated, and he began yelling and calling her names.
“He then saw that the Ring camera was recording; he unplugged the Ring camera, opened the side door, and threw the Ring camera out of my home. I went outside to retrieve the Ring camera. He then locked me out of my house,” Bailey stated within the declaration.
“I went around the back and came into the house through another entrance. I plugged the camera back in and called my family member for help. With her on the phone line, I repeatedly asked Darryl to please leave. I told him that he was being rude, and I was too sick to deal with him. He would not leave. When he realized that my family member was on the phone line, he became enraged. Around this same time, I noticed that he also saw the Ring camera was back on so he smashed the camera. I have this recorded and will bring the recording to the hearing.”
Halle Bailey and DDG, who share son Halo, broke up final October.
(Scott Garfitt / Invision / Related Press)
She stated DDG then grabbed her cellphone and hung up on her relative whereas she managed to get Halo away from him.
“Darryl then ran out of the house with my phone. I followed, begging to please give my phone back. He got into his car and closed the car door on me while I was holding Halo. Darryl then drove off and threw my phone out the window and yelled ‘GO GET IT B—.’ As a result of this incident, I filed a police report.”
Each events have been ordered to take part in a Could 30 mediation teleconference to find out custody or visitation if the 2 fail to provide you with a plan earlier than then utilizing on-line court docket instruments. A court docket listening to is scheduled for June 4.
In her Tuesday declaration, Bailey stated that their relationship “ended in 2024 because of Darryl’s temper and lack of respect towards me. There have been numerous incidents of physical abuse, even before Halo was born.”
The doc incorporates different alleged acts, together with DDG declaring on social media that she was with one other man on Mom’s Day. She stated she was not, then talked about that he had riled up his followers in order that they accused her on-line of withholding the kid and sleeping with different males. She additionally stated DDG has by no means paid baby help and he or she has by no means requested him to take action.
Bailey can be asking the court docket to permit her to take Halo to Italy for eight weeks whereas she is filming a film.
“This is not child-centered,” she stated of the conflicts between them, “and Halo is only being used to further his fan base and online presence.”
That’s a far cry from the rosy image she painted in interviews whereas they had been a pair.
Bailey and DDG first sparked romance rumors in January 2022, then made issues pink carpet official on the 2022 BET Awards that June. Chatting with Essence in August 2022, Bailey stated she had been conscious of DDG since 2015 from his YouTube channel. Their relationship started with non-public messages on social media, she stated.
“I grew up being on YouTube and would always see the young Black creators and was constantly inspired by them,” she advised the journal. “He was one of them.”
When the journal requested Bailey whether or not she was in love with DDG, she replied, “Yes. For sure I am.”
However shortly after the live-action model of “The Little Mermaid” premiered in Could 2023, DDG launched the music “Famous.”
Within the specific music, he raps, “Hardest things I did was fall in love with a famous b—.” If that wasn’t sufficient of a nod to his girlfriend, DDG’s lyrics additionally seemingly trace at Halle’s Ariel falling for co-star Jonah Hauer-King’s Prince Eric (“Filmin’ a movie now you kissing dudes”) and their time on the press tour (“Why is y’all holdin’ hands in the photo?”).
DDG, and his relationship with Bailey, shortly drew criticism on-line. One X person slammed DDG and his “embarrassing antics,” whereas one other stated “the whole song is the nastiest thing he could’ve done” to his girlfriend.
Amid the backlash, DDG stated Halle heard the music, and stated, “It’s just music.”
Bailey appeared to get better after that drama. “You know, you have puppy love experiences, you think that’s love,” she advised Cosmopolitan in September 2023. “But this is my first deep, deep, real love.”
Occasions workers writers Carlos De Loera and Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this submit.
