In correct Keke Palmer fashion, she turned her separation into a complete multimedia party. On Aug. 16, Palmer starred in a shady new music movie dissing her boyfriend Darius Jackson’s perfectly-documented insecurities about how she attire. But the movie for Usher’s song “Boyfriend” really should have actually been termed “Ex-Boyfriend,” simply because correct just after it dropped, reviews surfaced that Palmer had damaged up with Jackson a even though again.

Enjoyment Tonight noted that Palmer and Jackson ended items “soon right after [Darius] known as her out on Twitter for her outfit at the Usher live performance.” The would have been a thirty day period back, when on July 5, Jackson commented on a photo of Palmer in a sheer dress at Usher’s Las Vegas concert, “It is the outfit tho.. you a mother.” He ongoing to disapprove of his girlfriend’s seem in a collection of followup tweets. “We dwell in a technology exactly where a person of the loved ones does not want the wife & mother to his young ones to showcase booty cheeks to please other people & he receives advised how considerably of a hater he is,” Jackson wrote. “This is my spouse and children & my representation. I have requirements & morals to what I consider. I relaxation my scenario.”

At the time, Palmer stayed peaceful on the controversy, only slyly referencing it by dropping new merch that go through, “I’m A Motha.” It wasn’t until finally a little above a month later that Palmer responded to her ex’s feedback in Usher’s “Boyfriend” video clip.

“Dammit, I missed the display,” Palmer says towards the end. “And I’m so drained. I am a mother, right after all.” Palmer then gives the digicam a significant wink, just to actually get her position throughout.

In the wake of the “Boyfriend” movie, a supply explained to Folks that Jackson experienced “moved on,” but that he and Palmer have been still co-parenting collectively even with the break up: “You really don’t have to be in the similar domestic to be very good mom and dad.”

The pair had been collectively for two a long time, initially meeting and heading Instagram official in the summer months of 2021. In February 2023, they welcomed their son Leo.