Ashanti Dishes On Possibility Of Getting Back With Nelly After Steamy ‘Body On Me’ Reunion

Ashanti appeared connected the Dec. 13 occurrence of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen and discussed her reunion with ex, Nelly, astatine a performance successful Arizona earlier this month. A instrumentality called successful and asked however Ashanti felt astir the absorption to the steamy performance, wherever the 2 sang their 2008 hit, “Body On Me.” The caller besides pointed retired that fans are hoping Ashanti and Nelly volition beryllium the next Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, who precocious got joined pursuing a astir 20 twelvemonth split.

Ashanti couldn’t assistance but ace up implicit the question. “Oh my gosh,” she said. “I saw a batch of comments. My absorption was…wow. It was a batch of comments and a batch of radical wanting that.” She past confirmed wherever her narration with Nelly stands today. “What I volition accidental is, we’re successful a amended place,” Ashanti explained. “Because earlier it was similar [*punching*]. We person immoderate conversations [now]. So it was cool.” When Andy Cohen flat-out asked, “But you’re not getting backmost together?”, Ashanti didn’t unopen down the possibility, either. “I mean, I don’t….” she said, earlier trailing disconnected successful laughter.

Ashanti and Nelly earlier their split. (Picture Perfect/Shutterstock)

Nelly and Ashanti met astatine the opening of 2003 and yet began dating. They were unneurotic for 10 years earlier they split. Back successful Sept. 2021, the 2 reunited aft not seeing each different for respective years erstwhile they both appeared onstage at Ja Rule and Fat Joe’s Verzuz battle. Nelly ran implicit and gave Ashanti a hug during the performance. “When I saw him benignant of coming crossed the stage, I was conscionable like, oh. And it was truthful weird due to the fact that we haven’t seen oregon spoken to each different for implicit six years. So it was a weird feeling,” Ashanti admitted on The Tamron Hall Show. “It had been truthful long, I didn’t cognize however to consciousness oregon what I was going to consciousness erstwhile I did spot him.”

In a consequent interview, Ashanti shared that she had nary thought Nelly was going to beryllium astatine the Verzuz erstwhile she agreed to attend. She admitted that it was “a small awkward” and “very unexpected” to spot her ex astatine the event.

Ashanti and Nelly didn’t speech overmuch publically astir their split, but she did admit successful 2015 that a betrayal led to the breakup. “I deliberation sometimes erstwhile radical person their ain insecurities, it allows them to enactment retired of character. I’ve been betrayed,” she shared. “I’m not a large instrumentality of radical being cowards. I’m successful a antithetic spot now.”

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