Actress Halle Bailey and rapper Darryl Dwayne “DDG” Grandberry Jr. first met by way of 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 all the time see the younger Black creators and was consistently impressed by them. He was one in every of them.”
Whereas 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: “However then I noticed that he was dropping music, and I actually gravitated towards this one tune. Coincidentally he messaged me — and the remainder is historical past.”
Halle and DDG first sparked courting 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 number of eyes on me now, particularly with what’s to return. And generally I want I didn’t have so many eyes on me, particularly experiencing one thing like this for the primary time,” Halle advised British Vogue in April 2023.
In October 2024, DDG introduced that he and Halle cut up lower than one 12 months after welcoming their son, Halo.
Scroll beneath to see Halle and DDG’s full relationship timeline: