LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles choose has granted a restraining order to “The Little Mermaid” actor and singer Halle Bailey, who says her ex-boyfriend, the rapper and YouTuber DDG, has been repeatedly violent along with her and she or he fears for herself and the child they’ve collectively.
The choose on Tuesday ordered DDG, whose authorized identify is Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr., to steer clear of Bailey and their 17-month-old son, Halo, till a June 6 listening to.
“All through our relationship,” Bailey mentioned in paperwork requesting the order, “Daryl has been and continues to be bodily, verbally, emotionally, and financially abusive in direction of me. I’m searching for orders to guard myself and our son Halo from his ongoing abuse.”
A message searching for remark from a consultant for Granberry was not instantly answered.
Bailey, 25, and Granberry, 27, had been in a relationship from 2022 till final 12 months, and since their breakup there have been “a number of acts of bodily violence,” Bailey mentioned.
In a January incident that she recounts intimately, Bailey mentioned Granberry was repeatedly calling her a “bitch” as she tried to strap the child right into a seat inside his automotive.
“The subsequent factor I knew, issues acquired bodily between us,” Bailey mentioned within the paperwork. “We fought one another, wrestling and tussling. At one level, Darryl was pulling my hair. He then slammed my face on the steering wheel, inflicting my tooth to get chipped. I then stopped combating again as I used to be in plenty of ache.”
Bailey included pictures of her tooth and bruises on her arms in her submitting.
In March, she mentioned Granberry entered her home when she wasn’t dwelling and texted her a photograph of her mattress together with a threatening message suggesting she was having intercourse with different males.
Just a few days later, she mentioned, he berated her when she didn’t wish to ship their sick child on a go to with him, and smashed the Ring digital camera on her porch when he realized it was recording the confrontation. She mentioned when she referred to as a relative for assist, he took her cellphone and acquired into his automotive, slamming the door on her as she was holding the child. Bailey filed a police report over the incident.
She additionally requested that Granberry be ordered to cease utilizing his streaming platforms on Twitch and YouTube to show his followers towards her.
“At any time when he needs to trigger upset, he begins unhealthy mouthing me to his a number of thousands and thousands of followers,” she mentioned within the paperwork. “He claims I’m withholding our son and that I’m with different males. In consequence, I then obtain threats and hate on social media.”
Granberry was additionally ordered to not possess any weapons. The choose can prolong the order for as much as 5 years on the June 6 listening to.
DDG, from Pontiac, Michigan, first noticed success as a video streamer after which as a hip-hop artist. On Could 5, he launched his fourth studio album, “Blame the Chat,” on Epic data.
Bailey, from Atlanta, has been nominated for 5 Grammy Awards as each a solo artist and as a part of Chloe x Halle, the duo along with her sister that first introduced her fame.
She starred within the sitcom “Grown-ish” from 2018 to 2022, and in 2023 performed the title character in Disney’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid.”
