Keke Palmer is peeling again the curtain on her previous entanglement with Darius Jackson, providing candid confessions a few romance that veered from fairytale to fiasco.
What started as a seemingly picture-perfect love story unraveled in 2023 after Palmer’s now-infamous interplay with Usher throughout his Las Vegas residency. The multi-hyphenate star was serenaded by the R&B singer, a second that sparked a social media meltdown from Jackson — who took to X, previously Twitter, to publicly condemn Palmer, accusing her of being an unfit mom.
“We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he gets told how much of a hater he is,” Jackson wrote. “This is my family & my representation. I have standards & morals to what I believe. I rest my case.”
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Now, two years later, Palmer is breaking her silence — and maybe reclaiming the narrative — with a new tune titled “My Confession.”
“This one is personal. ‘My Confession’ is exactly what it sounds like—me giving voice to the feelings I buried,” she shared in an Instagram submit on Friday.
Palmer mirrored that “closure” doesn’t at all times arrive within the neatly packaged type we hope for. Typically, it comes via radical honesty. Her new single, she defined, is a manifestation of her pleasure, a personification of her “peace” and “clarity,” and a milestone in a therapeutic journey that appears to have helped her launch the residue of previous ache.
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“I’m not here to play perfect. I’m here to be honest. I’m just here to be Keke,” she stated.
On a February episode of her podcast, “Baby, It’s Keke Palmer,” she revisited the viral Usher second with a mixture of awe and hindsight.
“My reaction [to the show] was just like, ‘I can’t believe it, I haven’t seen anybody perform like this in such a long time,’” Palmer stated. “Now, obviously, everybody went crazy. We caused some ruckus in my relationship.”
Usher responded, “Yeah, we did.”
