DDG is feeling the pressures of fame as he and his former associate Halle Bailey discover themselves in the course of a custody battle.
The rapper and streamer took to X on Thursday to vent his frustrations and in contrast himself to the King of Pop, writing: “Now I understand how Michael Jackson felt being well-known.. sh– loopy.”
Final month, Bailey filed and gained a brief domestic violence restraining order in opposition to DDG (actual identify: Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr.), and earlier this week it was reported that Granberry countered with a restraining order request of his personal, claiming the mom of his 1-year-old son Halo threatened suicide a number of instances — a transfer the singer and actress recently slammed.
“I’ve been very vocal about my nervousness, melancholy and former ideas of suicide,” she wrote in her declaration to the court docket. “With out waiving the psychotherapist-patient privilege and physician-patient privilege, I’ve reached out to my physician and acquired therapy to handle these points. I’ve been and stay 100% out there and succesful as a father or mother to our son, Halo.”
She additionally mentioned that DDG “has exaggerated, lied and misconstrued for the court docket, not solely the historical past of our relationship, however our parenting and my psychological well being.”
Decide Latrice A.G. Byrdsong partially granted DDG a brief restraining order that stops Halle from inflicting any bodily or emotional abuse. Nevertheless, the decide is permitting Bailey to retain sole custody of Halo till the following listening to, which is scheduled for later this month, on June 24. She’s additionally allowed to deliver their son along with her to Italy for 2 months, the place she’s capturing an upcoming movie.
The estranged couple went public with their relationship in January 2022 and called it quits three years later, in October 2024.