DDG says Halle Bailey hit him, attempted to abort son Halo

Rapper DDG and singer Halle Bailey attend a sporting event

By Christie D’ZurillaAssistant Editor, Fast Break Desk

June 6, 2025 2:52 PM PT

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DDG has failed for now in his attempt to get a domestic violence restraining order preventing Halle Bailey from taking their son, Halo, out of the country — but not for lack of trying.

The rapper, real name Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr., made serious allegations about Bailey in a new court filing this week after she served him with a domestic violence restraining order in mid-May. DDG must keep his distance from his “The Little Mermaid” ex and their son, who turns 2 in October. He was also ordered to refrain from contacting them in any way, including electronically.

On Wednesday, when a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge was expected to consider whether to make the temporary order more permanent, the 27-year-old influencer’s attorney requested that Bailey be prevented from traveling internationally with Halo, specifically to Italy, alleging there was a risk she would kidnap the child. The filing also asked that the hearing be continued to a later date.

DDG’s team got the later date. His attorney did not reply to The Times’ request for comment.

The domestic violence restraining order request, which was denied pending a hearing later this month, was supported by DDG’s version of some of the same incidents his 25-year-old ex cited in her May filing, according to court documents reviewed by The Times. It includes declarations from Tonya Granberry, DDG’s mother, and George Charlston, her fiancée, who is also DDG’s driver, alleging they found Apple AirTags that had been hidden in the rapper’s vehicles and in Halo’s diaper bag, presumably by Bailey.

DDG’s team complained in his filing about Bailey’s alleged “emotional instability and coercive control,” her “repeated threats of suicide and self-harm” and instances where she “endangered the child’s safety while in emotional distress.”

The filing includes text exchanges in which Bailey sent myriad frantic-sounding messages, many more than DDG replied with. In one exchange, which occurred after he drove off following an argument in 2022, Bailey sent texts “claiming she had a knife and implying she would harm herself if he did not return,” the filing says.

“YOI HATE ME AND WANT ME TO DIE!!!” she said amid a flurry of text messages in March 2024, according to the filing, following up with texts saying “I WANT TO DIE BECAUSE OF YOU!!!” and “I WILL DIE BECAUSE OF YOU!!!”

In February, Bailey told DDG via text that “everyday i want to die because of the way you embarrass me online and allow other women to speak on me,” the filing says.

The two dated for two years before breaking up in October 2023; their son was born a couple of months later. Bailey allegedly “weaponized” her pregnancy to try to persuade DDG to reconcile with her, the filing says. The court filing alleges she tried to medically abort Halo in June 2023 but didn’t take the second dose of medication that would complete the task.

The rapper said the singer-actor went through his phone while he was asleep, slapped and punched him during a fight over the phone, falsely claimed that he slammed her head into his car’s steering wheel during a custody exchange and surveilled him by planting Apple AirTags in his vehicles.

He accused her in the filing of tracking the AirTags to show up uninvited to events and studio sessions where he was, “often resulting in confrontations.”

“During emotional outbursts,” the filing says, Bailey “has destroyed my personal property including my laptop that contained critical music and content word” and “stole my legally owned firearm during an argument in August of 2023 and was found outside the house in possession of it.”

In March 2024, Bailey allegedly sent DDG “a series of alarming text messages threatening to kill herself and suggesting that their infant son, Halo, might also be harmed,” the document says. “She then proceeded to drive her vehicle — with the child in the car — while in an emotionally unhinged state. [DDG] was so disturbed by her condition that he immediately contacted [her] godmother to intervene and assist.”

The filing, which includes photos of a gash in DDG’s thumb that he said Bailey caused, notes that similar exchanges happened last September and October, demonstrating that Bailey’s alleged “instability is not a thing of the past, but a present and ongoing danger.”

Bailey’s attorney did not respond immediately to The Times’ request for comment.

DDG found out about Bailey’s restraining order against him via a phone alert in the middle of a livestream in May — no advance notice of the request was given because Bailey, according to court documents, was afraid he would retaliate with violence or by taking Halo out of the area.

In her declaration, Bailey accused DDG of “badmouthing” her to his millions of fans on Twitch and YouTube whenever he “wants to cause upset.”

“He claims I am withholding our son and that I am with other men. As a result, I then receive threats and hate on social media. He seems to try to set up drama for his fans. He goes ‘live’ ranting about me and alleges that I am keeping Halo from him. This is false. I have requested a set schedule, which he refuses.”

She also said he frequently calls her “b—” and says she is “evil.” She detailed one physical altercation from January of this year that ended with her bruised with a chipped tooth. Bailey was giving DDG their son and strapping him into the rapper-streamer’s car when, according to her filing, she asked when the child would be returned. A verbal dispute quickly turned physical, the court document said, and he pulled her hair and slammed her face into the steering wheel.

But DDG says that is false — according to his filing, she hit the steering wheel while launching herself forward from the back seat while trying to hit him. He says he attempted to “shield himself” by holding her arms down so she couldn’t keep hitting him.

“I wanted to get out of the car with Halo but was now stuck,” Bailey said in her filing. “Darryl then said that since I would not leave the baby in the car, he would take me with them. He drove quickly towards his house. When we arrived at his house, I was crying and told his family what happened. I begged his family who were there to help me figure out a schedule with him. They said just leave Halo and go. I left hysterical.”

A hearing in the case is now scheduled for July 24.