Ashanti Confirms Nelly Reunion With A VMAs Fashion Statement

Ashanti is able to showcase her relationship with on-again boyfriend Nelly.

Whereas she walked the purple carpet of Tuesday’s 2023 MTV Video Music Awards alone, the R&B songstress nonetheless discovered a cute method to have her important different at her facet.

Ashanti regarded smitten whereas carrying round a compact clutch, designed with an early 2000s-era picture of the couple on the entrance.

Pairing her personalised accent with an equally eye-catching outfit, the “Silly” singer donned a rhinestone-covered costume with a daring entrance cut-out that exposed a bejeweled bra within the form of two turtles.

Whereas Nelly helped get the evening began with a efficiency of his 2002 banger “Sizzling In Right here” through the VMAs pre-show, Ashanti gushed about her accomplice on the purple carpet.

“We’re in an awesome area, all the pieces is optimistic, we’re having plenty of enjoyable,” she informed Individuals journal.

Following months of flirty public appearances collectively, Nelly confirmed he and Ashanti have been certainly again on throughout an interview on Philo TV’s “Boss Strikes” which got here out Monday.

“Yeah, we cool once more,” he mentioned. “We cool once more. I feel it stunned each of us, although. It wasn’t something that was, like, I don’t assume deliberate. I feel we each was just about doing what we do. However typically being separate, you perceive each other extra.”

Months earlier than that, Nelly informed Leisure Tonight he had rekindled his friendship along with his then-ex.

“Time does wonders for lots of various issues,” he defined. “And time is one these issues that permits you time to mirror on what’s what, and also you get an opportunity to see issues in a special gentle and see your faults. So I feel we each did that, and it’s cool that we simply pals.”

Ashanti and Nelly first began relationship in 2003 after assembly at a Grammys occasion. The “Physique On Me” collaborators spent the subsequent decade relationship on-and-off, till breaking apart for good in 2013.

Ashanti talked about feeling “betrayed” by the “Nation Grammar” rapper throughout a 2015 interview on The Meredith Vieira Present, the place she mentioned, “I feel typically when folks have their very own insecurities it permits them to behave out of character. I’ve been betrayed.”

“Once more, you simply should develop,” she went on. “It’s a must to develop up and settle for duty for the issues that you just do. I’m not a giant fan of individuals being cowards. I feel it’s actually necessary to know your self and perceive what you need and get it. I’m in a special place proper now.”