DDG has countered Halle Bailey’s home violence accusations with a request for a restraining order of his personal, telling a choose that the 25-year-old singer and actress is abusive and has repeatedly threatened self-harm for emotional manipulation.
The 27-year-old streamer and rapper DDG (Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr.) made the allegations in a counter-petition filed Wednesday (June 4) in opposition to Bailey, who received a brief domestic violence restraining order final month after claiming DDG had bodily attacked her a number of occasions within the presence of their 18-month-old son, Halo.
DDG denies abusing Bailey and says he’s really the one who wants safety. He claims Bailey has repeatedly punched and slapped him, stalked him by hiding Airtags in his automobiles, and threatened to take her personal life throughout jealous outbursts when he tried to finish their relationship or “set up boundaries.”
In accordance with the counter-petition, Bailey has at numerous occasions threatened suicide with each a knife and a gun. DDG says Bailey has additionally used Halo as a device of manipulation, threatening to get an abortion in the course of the being pregnant and, now, blocking his entry to the kid.
“In or about August 2023, throughout a very unstable argument, petitioner grew to become enraged and threatened to finish her life utilizing my legally owned firearm. With out my consent, she took the weapon and left the home,” wrote DDG in a declaration hooked up to his court docket submitting. “This incident was certainly one of a number of through which petitioner’s actions posed a severe menace to her personal security and the protection of our son by creating an surroundings of emotional misery and hazard inside the house.”
DDG’s counter-petition consists of pages of textual content messages between the duo, together with messages the place Bailey writes, “IM GOONG TO KILL MYSWLF TONIGHT” [sic] and “I’m merely not robust sufficient for this world. Please take halo so he doesn’t need to see.”
The DDG counter-petition seeks a stay-away order in opposition to Bailey and for the court docket to award him joint or shared custody of Halo, who’s at the moment in Bailey’s sole custody per the non permanent restraining order.
DDG can also be asking to bar Bailey from taking Halo together with her to Italy for 2 months to movie a film starting this weekend. Bailey has sought court docket permission to deliver Halo on the contractually mandated movie shoot, however DDG’s counter-petition says worldwide journey is harmful as a result of Bailey poses a psychological threat to each herself and the kid.
“A mum or dad who has threatened suicide repeatedly — who has armed herself with a firearm whereas in emotional disaster, who has pushed with the kid in a doubtlessly suicidal state, and who continues to escalate when emotionally dysregulated — can’t be entrusted to take care of a weak toddler overseas, with out the protection web of California court docket supervision, welfare checks, psychological well being intervention or little one protecting companies,” wrote DDG’s legal professional Larry Bakman within the court docket papers.
Bailey’s reps didn’t instantly return a request for touch upon the allegations, although her legal professional, Terry Levich Ross, stated throughout a listening to in Los Angeles court docket on Wednesday that DDG’s counterclaims are “not correct.”
Throughout that listening to, Decide Latrice A.G. Byrdsong stated she’ll situation a call quickly as as to whether Bailey can deliver Halo when she departs for Italy on Saturday (June 7). A full listening to is about for June 24 on the duo’s competing petitions for everlasting restraining orders in opposition to one another.