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Ashanti and Nelly put connected an eyebrow-raising performance precocious and fans took their on-stage grinding arsenic much impervious of a rekindled romance! During Nelly’s header acceptable astatine his “Hot In Herree” euphony festival successful June, 2023. Ashanti came retired and danced up connected the rapper, 48, portion performing their immense collab deed “Body On Me.” The sizzling chemistry betwixt the pair, who broke up successful 2013 aft 10 years together, was much than capable to hint that Ashanti and Nelly are backmost on. To echo the sentiment, an insider told Entertainment Tonight that they are “happy” reunited, with a 2nd root adding, “Nelly and Ashanti are truly enjoying their clip together.”
Ashanti and Nelly are the epitome of on-again/off-again couples. (Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock)
As fans know, the brace were the epitome of a powerfulness mates successful the 2000s. They began dating successful 2003, released a fewer deed songs together, flirted with an engagement and were reportedly unneurotic connected and disconnected for a decade. However, the fairytale ended successful 2013, and things appeared a spot rocky betwixt the exes.
With their caller risque concert, it appeared clip heals each wounds. However, it remains a spot unclear whether this reunion is genuinely the rekindling of a once-intense emotion affair. One happening is certain: Ashanti and Nelly’s caller encounters person reignited the flames of curiosity among their devoted stans. Let’s instrumentality a deeper dive to find retired much astir their emotion story, below.
Meet-Cute
Ashanti and Nelly began their romance aft archetypal gathering astatine a Grammy’s property league successful 2003 astatine the tallness of their careers. Ashanti was riding precocious connected the waves of success, acknowledgment to her breakout solo single, “Foolish.” The way dominated the charts, spending an awesome 10 weeks astatine the coveted No. 1 spot connected the Billboard Hot 100. She kept the momentum going with noteworthy collaborations specified arsenic “What’s Luv?” with Fat Joe and “Always connected Time” with Ja Rule. Meanwhile, Nelly was making his ain people successful the rap country with his debut single, “Country Grammar” and the medium of the aforesaid name, which went connected to merchantability implicit 10 cardinal copies.
Ashanti recalled her archetypal acquisition with Nelly on a 2011 occurrence of Behind the Music. “The archetypal clip I met Nelly helium asked maine for my autograph, but I deliberation helium was being sarcastic and I retrieve penning it down connected the program,” Ashanti said. “For the record, it took him a agelong clip to get my number.”
The Romance
The adorable mates were rather coy astir their narration and alternatively of announcing it, they decided to marque euphony together! Both of their deed collabs “Body On Me” and “Switch” talked astir the ins and outs of a romance, making fans spell adjacent much chaotic astir the couple’s imaginable emotion connection.
Nelly and Ashanti stock a laughter during a nighttime out. (Sara Jaye/Shutterstock)
Soon determination was nary denying the connection, and Ashanti and Nelly were retired and astir looking similar a certified couple, hitting up reddish carpets and euphony awards shows. Still, they played it coy and much disorder was up for fans. In 2005, Ashanti confirmed to People that she “went out” with Nelly, but said they were “not fellow and girlfriend”. And past 3 years later, she teased to the outlet that an engagement was “definitely successful the future.” Make it marque sense.
Two years aft Ashanti’s engagement tease, Nelly didn’t assistance wide thing up erstwhile helium told Rap-Up TV wherefore helium wasn’t going to suggest anytime soon. “I don’t know, close present we’re conscionable friends,” helium replied erstwhile asked astir tying the knot. “I’m joined to my work. I’m joined to getting things into a definite situation. She’s joined to getting things into a definite concern close now.” He added, “We bask each other’s company. We emotion it.”
The Split
Perhaps the wedding hesitation was a motion of things to travel betwixt the couple. In a astonishing crook of events successful 2013, Nelly and Ashanti softly ended their narration aft an awesome decennary together. Their split, shrouded successful secrecy, near the satellite with small cognition of the reasons down their determination to portion ways.
A twelvemonth aft their breakup, Ashanti shed immoderate airy connected the concern during a candid interrogation connected HOT 97. In an effort to dispel the speculation surrounding their split, she assured fans that determination was nary animosity oregon “beef” betwixt her and Nelly.
Two years later, Ashanti opened up much astir the split. While appearing on The Meredith Vieira Show successful 2015, Ashanti said spot issues whitethorn person played a portion successful the demise. “I deliberation sometimes erstwhile radical person their ain insecurities it allows them to enactment retired of character,” she said. “I’ve been betrayed.”
Ashanti and Nelly are young successful love. (Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock)
Rumors Of A Reunion
Last December, a video surfaced of Ashanti and Nelly performing unneurotic astatine a concert. In it, the brace were seen getting rather cozy connected signifier portion singing their 2008 deed collab “Body connected Me.” During a halt on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Ashanti was grilled astir her presumption with Nelly. “What I volition accidental is, we’re successful a amended place,” she said. “Because earlier it was similar [*punching*]. We person immoderate conversations [now]. So it was cool.”
Where Do They Stand Now?
Two months later, fans couldn’t assistance themselves speculate a spot much erstwhile Ashanti was snapped rocking a Cuban nexus concatenation astir her neck, overmuch similar the 1 Nelly wears, including astatine the 2023 Grammy Awards. The photograph intelligibly added to the “will they oregon wont they” vibe that is keeping their stans connected edge. In an interrogation with ET at the 2023 Grammys, Nelly besides hinted astatine the powerfulness of clip successful mending relationships. “Time does wonders for a batch of antithetic things,” helium cryptically revealed, leaving fans to wonderment if it was a subtle motion to his ain rekindled transportation with Ashanti.
Now with reports that they are “happy” together, it looks similar the brace are enjoying immoderate benignant of reunion. In the meantime, HollywoodLife will proceed to show the Nelly and Ashanti concern and support you posted!
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