Actress Halle Bailey and rapper Darryl Dwayne “DDG” Grandberry Jr. first met via their respective careers.
“I’ve been a fan of his for years,” the Little Mermaid star gushed to Essence in November 2022. “I grew up being on YouTube and would always see the young Black creators and was constantly inspired by them. He was one of them.”
While Halle — who rose to fame as a younger singer alongside her sister Chloe Bailey — first stumbled throughout DDG’s movies in 2015, she quickly “forgot about him.” She added: “But then I saw that he was dropping music, and I really gravitated toward this one song. Coincidentally he messaged me — and the rest is history.”
Halle and DDG first sparked relationship rumors in January 2022, two months earlier than going Instagram official. The subsequent 12 months, Halle revealed that they’ve a “deeply sacred” bond.
“There’s a lot of eyes on me now, especially with what’s to come. And sometimes I wish I didn’t have so many eyes on me, especially experiencing something like this for the first time,” Halle instructed British Vogue in April 2023.
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