Halle Bailey gets a restraining order against DDG, alleging physical and verbal abuse

Halle Bailey secured a impermanent restraining bid Tuesday against rapper DDG, alleging that the begetter of their lad Halo was abusive passim their two-year narration and has continued to behave severely since they broke up past year.

The “Little Mermaid” star, 25, and the rapper-blogger, 27, whose existent sanction is Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr. divided up successful October, declaring astatine the clip that they were “still champion friends.” Son Halo was calved successful December 2023 aft Bailey worked hard to support her gestation disconnected the radar.

“Throughout our narration and continuing to date, Darryl has been and continues to beryllium physically, verbally, emotionally, and financially abusive towards me,” she said successful tribunal documents reviewed by The Times. “I americium seeking orders to support myself and our lad Halo from his ongoing abuse.”

The TRO was granted by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge. Bailey indicated successful tribunal documents that she was acrophobic for her information and that of their son, Halo Saint Granberry, and asked that DDG beryllium ordered to enactment distant from some of them. No beforehand announcement was fixed to DDG due to the fact that Bailey was acrophobic helium would retaliate with unit oregon by taking Halo retired of the area, the documents said.

DDG appeared to find retired astir the restraining bid Tuesday successful the mediate of a profanity-laden livestream, prompting his co-streamers to decry what appeared to beryllium a telephone alert arsenic fake news.

“That can’t adjacent beryllium real,” DDG said, staring astatine his phone.

He is temporarily prohibited from approaching Bailey and his lad oregon contacting them done immoderate means including electronic.

In her declaration, Bailey accused DDG of “badmouthing” her to his millions of fans connected Twitch and YouTube whenever helium “wants to origin upset.”

“He claims I americium withholding our lad and that I americium with different men. As a result, I past person threats and hatred connected societal media. He seems to effort to acceptable up play for his fans. He goes ‘live’ ranting astir maine and alleges that I americium keeping Halo from him. This is false. I person requested a acceptable schedule, which helium refuses.”

She besides said helium often calls her “b—” and says she is “evil.” She besides elaborate 1 carnal altercation from January of this year.

DDG went to Bailey’s location connected Jan. 18, she said successful the declaration, to prime up Halo. She said she asked DDG erstwhile helium would instrumentality the kid and alleged helium wouldn’t springiness her an answer.

“The treatment continued arsenic I walked with him extracurricular to assistance to enactment Halo into the car seat. I was buckling the babe into his spot and physically got into the backmost spot to set the car seat. I had near my beforehand doorway unfastened and was not adjacent afloat dressed arsenic I was not adjacent wearing shoes. Darryl kept repeating ‘Get retired of my car, B—.’ Halo was crying.”

Bailey said she was tense leaving the babe with her agitated ex and repeatedly pleaded with him to halt calling her a b—. Then the statement escalated, she said.

“The adjacent happening I knew, things got carnal betwixt us. We fought each other, wrestling and tussling. At 1 point, Darryl was pulling my hair. He past slammed my look connected the steering wheel, causing my bony to get chipped. I past stopped warring backmost arsenic I was successful a batch of pain,” Bailey wrote.

“I wanted to get retired of the car with Halo but was present stuck. Darryl past said that since I would not permission the babe successful the car, helium would instrumentality maine with them. He drove rapidly towards his house. When we arrived astatine his house, I was crying and told his household what happened. I begged his household who were determination to assistance maine fig retired a docket with him. They said conscionable permission Halo and go. I near hysterical. I had bruises implicit my arms and a chipped tooth.”

Bailey besides elaborate a convulsive incidental connected March 7 that ended up with her filing a constabulary report. She and Halo were location sick with RSV erstwhile DDG came implicit to spot his son, whom Bailey didn’t privation to permission the location due to the fact that of his illness. That angered DDG, she said, and helium started yelling and calling her names.

“He past saw that the Ring camera was recording; helium unplugged the Ring camera, opened the broadside door, and threw the Ring camera retired of my home. I went extracurricular to retrieve the Ring camera. He past locked maine retired of my house,” Bailey said successful the declaration.

“I went astir the backmost and came into the location done different entrance. I plugged the camera backmost successful and called my household subordinate for help. With her connected the telephone line, I repeatedly asked Darryl to delight leave. I told him that helium was being rude, and I was excessively sick to woody with him. He would not leave. When helium realized that my household subordinate was connected the telephone line, helium became enraged. Around this aforesaid time, I noticed that helium besides saw the Ring camera was backmost connected truthful helium smashed the camera. I person this recorded and volition bring the signaling to the hearing.”

Halle Bailey and DDG, who stock lad Halo, broke up past October.

(Scott Garfitt / Invision / Associated Press)

She said DDG past grabbed her telephone and hung up connected her comparative portion she managed to get Halo distant from him.

“Darryl past ran retired of the location with my phone. I followed, begging to delight springiness my telephone back. He got into his car and closed the car doorway connected maine portion I was holding Halo. Darryl past drove disconnected and threw my telephone retired the model and yelled ‘GO GET IT B—.’ As a effect of this incident, I filed a constabulary report.”

Both parties person been ordered to enactment successful a May 30 mediation teleconference to find custody oregon visitation if the 2 neglect to travel up with a program earlier past utilizing online tribunal tools. A tribunal proceeding is scheduled for June 4.

In her Tuesday declaration, Bailey said that their narration “ended successful 2024 due to the fact that of Darryl’s temper and deficiency of respect towards me. There person been galore incidents of carnal abuse, adjacent earlier Halo was born.”

The papers contains different alleged acts, including DDG declaring connected societal media that she was with different antheral connected Mother’s Day. She said she was not, past mentioned that helium had riled up his fans truthful that they accused her online of withholding the kid and sleeping with different men. She besides said DDG has ne'er paid kid enactment and she has ne'er asked him to bash so.

Bailey is besides asking the tribunal to let her to instrumentality Halo to Italy for 8 weeks portion she is filming a movie.

“This is not child-centered,” she said of the conflicts betwixt them, “and Halo is lone being utilized to further his instrumentality basal and online presence.”

That’s a acold outcry from the rosy representation she painted successful interviews portion they were a couple.

Bailey and DDG archetypal sparked romance rumors successful January 2022, past made things reddish carpet authoritative astatine the 2022 BET Awards that June. Speaking to Essence successful August 2022, Bailey said she had been alert of DDG since 2015 from his YouTube channel. Their narration began with backstage messages connected societal media, she said.

“I grew up being connected YouTube and would ever spot the young Black creators and was perpetually inspired by them,” she told the magazine. “He was 1 of them.”

When the mag asked Bailey whether she was successful emotion with DDG, she replied, “Yes. For definite I am.”

But soon aft the live-action mentation of “The Little Mermaid” premiered successful May 2023, DDG released the opus “Famous.”

In the explicit song, helium raps, “Hardest things I did was autumn successful emotion with a celebrated b—.” If that wasn’t capable of a motion to his girlfriend, DDG’s lyrics besides seemingly hint astatine Halle’s Ariel falling for co-star Jonah Hauer-King’s Prince Eric (“Filmin’ a movie present you kissing dudes”) and their clip connected the property circuit (“Why is y’all holdin’ hands successful the photo?”).

DDG, and his narration with Bailey, rapidly drew disapproval online. One X idiosyncratic slammed DDG and his “embarrassing antics,” portion different said “the full opus is the nastiest happening helium could’ve done” to his girlfriend.

Amid the backlash, DDG said Halle heard the song, and said, “It’s conscionable music.”

Bailey seemed to retrieve aft that drama. “You know, you person puppy emotion experiences, you deliberation that’s love,” she told Cosmopolitan successful September 2023. “But this is my archetypal deep, deep, existent love.”

Times unit writers Carlos De Loera and Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this post.