Ashanti and Nelly Are Again Collectively—and She Celebrated With a Sentimental Assertion Bag
Ashanti and Nelly confirmed their relationship with an announcement accent on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards. The singer—who introduced an award on the ceremony with French Montana—walked the pink carpet conspicuously holding a clutch with a throwback photograph of the pair printed on the aspect.
“We’re in an ideal place,” Ashanti mentioned when requested in regards to the reunion. “I feel it’s fairly apparent. Yeah, we’re collectively.”
The rapper leaked the excellent news first throughout an look on the Philo present Boss Strikes with Rasheeda on September 12, simply hours earlier than the VMAs.
“Yeah, we’re cool once more,” the rapper advised host Rasheeda Frost and her husband. “I feel it stunned each of us, although. It wasn’t something that was like, I do not assume, deliberate. I feel we each was just about doing what we do.”
He elaborated, “However typically being separate, you perceive each other extra, the place you could possibly be like, ‘Nicely, yo, let me precisely see, possibly, what they see.’ ‘Trigger you already know all of us may be defensive typically in our personal relationships. And we all know we’re mistaken, however we will stand on it, you what I imply?”
Ashanti, 42, and Nelly, 48, initially began courting in 2003 and remained collectively for almost a decade earlier than calling it quits in 2013. In 2010, Nelly admitted he wasn’t able to get married—a blow that Ashanti would later confer with as a “betrayal.” Fortunately, Verzus led the pair to unexpectedly hug and reunite throughout a 2023 DJ battle between Fats Joe and Ja Rule.