Ashanti‘s mom and supervisor Tina Douglas wasn’t joyful about Nelly acting at Donald Trump‘s inauguration earlier this 12 months.
Throughout a recent episode of the couple’s actuality collection We Belong Together on Peacock, Ashanti broke the information to her mom that her husband was requested to carry out. “That is extra concerning the alternative of performing on the White Home versus performing for a specific candidate,” the singer advised her mom.
Nevertheless, her mother was greatly surprised by the information due to her household’s background within the civil rights motion. “That is very emotional for me,” she mentioned earlier than explaining her father James Davis’ efforts for integration. “My dad was heavy into civil rights. He marched on Washington with Martin Luther King and he additionally marched to Selma. When he got here again to Glen Cove, he began to combine the programs: the college system, the fireplace division, the police division.”
She then advised her daughter that’s it’s OK for her to voice her displeasure after Ashanti mentioned that “in the end” it was his resolution. “As your mother and your supervisor, it’s my job to ensure you can voice your opinion on what you’re feeling and what you already know,” she mentioned proper earlier than Nelly walked into the room to announce that he determined to do it. He advised them that he hoped they weren’t speaking about Ashanti divorcing him and promised it wasn’t going to be a giant deal.
Ashanti’s mom didn’t agree together with her son-in-law and advised her daughter that it’s “a giant deal” when he walked away.
Nelly has tried to explain his choice to carry out on a couple of events, most just lately firing again at critics within the feedback of a Shade Room submit on Instagram. “A few of y’all have an issue with [the situation] as a result of the prosecutor who has in all probability locked up extra Black males that we’ve helped girl of coloration with the white husband and white children didn’t win the election,” he wrote. “I didn’t marketing campaign for anybody. I don’t inform individuals who to vote for, I respect and love this nation from prime to backside, good and unhealthy.”
The couple got married in late 2023 and have a son collectively.