singer and actress Halle Bailey has been awarded a restraining order against rapper and YouTube personality DDG, her ex-boyfriend and father of their one-year-old son.
On Tuesday, a Los Angeles court instructed DDG, whose real name is Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr, to avoid Bailey and their child until there was a hearing on 6 June.
The Little Mermaid actress claims he was excessively violent towards her and made her fear for herself and their child.
Bailey, 25, claimed there had been “multiple acts of physical violence” from Granberry since they broke up in October.
“I am seeking orders to keep his abuse from continuing to harass and terrorize me and our son Halo.”
In filings seeking the order, according to the Associated Press, Bailey stated: “Throughout our relationship, Darryl has been and still is physically, verbally, emotionally, and financially abusive toward me.
Bailey and Granberry, 27, were dating from 2022 until last year.
“We struggled with each other, wrestling and struggling,” she stated. “Darryl was yanking my hair at one point. He then shoved my face on the steering wheel, and chipped my tooth. I then ceased resisting as I was badly hurt.”
Two months later, Bailey claims that Granberry broke into her home while she was away and sent her a picture of her bed and a threatening message indicating that she was sleeping around with other guys.
Bailey attached photos of her bruised arms and her chipped tooth to her filing, which have since been released by some US media outlets.
DDG gained popularity on YouTube and has since dropped four albums
In the court documents, the actress alleges “things got physical between us” after Granberry made repeated insults about her as she buckled the baby into a seat in his car in January.
She also claimed that, when she had called a relative for assistance, he grabbed her phone and slammed a car door on her while she held the baby. Bailey made a police report regarding the incident.
Within a few days, she stated, Granberry insulted her when she would not let their sick baby go on a visit with him, then destroyed the Ring doorbell camera on her front porch when he realized it was capturing their altercation.
Under the restraining order, Granberry was also ordered not to own any weapons. The judge may extend the order up to five years at the 6 June hearing.
Bailey also asked for Granberry to be restrained from using his social media sites to continue “bad mouthing me to his several millions of fans”.
Bailey rose to fame as one half of pop group Chloe x Halle alongside her sister and subsequently as a solo artist. She has been nominated for five Grammys.
As an actress, she starred in sitcom Grown-ish from 2018 until 2022. Her largest role to this point, though, was being the lead character in Disney’s 2023 live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.
“He says I am holding our son and that I have other men. And so consequently, I then get threats and hate on social media,” she stated in the papers.
DDG came to fame in the mid-2010s on YouTube, where he uploaded videos, and got a record deal in 2018. He has four studio albums.