Keke Palmer opens up about ‘inappropriate’ relationship with older man while filming Nickelodeon show

Keke Palmer opened up about being in a situation relationship with an old man Nickelodeon is filming its show aspect youth.

While promoting his upcoming book Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your NarrativeThe 31-year-old actor spoke sincerely. People She described her experience with toxic relationships, particularly her experience in the early years of her career. starring as a young fashion executive inside nickelodeon sitcom, The real Jackson, Vice President.

“I had a great time doing this Real Jackson Vice PresidentBut it was also a very stressful, difficult, depressive time,” Palmer recalls, noting that she was in an “inappropriate” relationship with an older man at the time.

“I was 15, he was 20” No the actor explained. “I was trying to balance being really young but also feeling quite mature. “If I thought it was inappropriate I wouldn’t do it.”

“Honestly, when I’m 15, I shouldn’t have dated a 20-year-old girl,” he continued. “But in my mind it was like, ‘I have a full-time job… No one can understand me except a grown man.’ But he knew there were a lot of things I couldn’t possibly understand at d*** 15.”

The relationship, which Palmer said he hid from his loved ones for years, lasted until he was 20. Looking back, the actress admitted that the five-year relationship had a long-term negative impact.

“I couldn’t mentally process and understand the things that would make this relationship okay,” he admitted. “The power dynamic put me in a situation that harmed me in ways I didn’t know about. I didn’t have the language or strength to accept that the person she met was a child, not the woman I wanted to be.

The Emmy winner admitted that it took her a while to understand what a real, healthy relationship looked like.

“That wasn’t possible until I was a truly grown woman, and even then we know we still have more time to grow. But I think I finally experienced true love when I was 26, 27, 28 years old. old Darius Jackson by changing perspective. “It’s not that I didn’t love that (other) person, but it wasn’t until I felt what it was like for someone to love me and truly respect me that I realized this relationship was wrong. .”

Palmer and Jackson started dating in May 2021 after meeting at a Memorial Day party. In December 2022, Palmer announced that she was expecting her first child. HE made the announcement during the opening monologue Saturday Night Live hosting for the first time. The couple’s first child, Leodis “Leo” Andrellton, was born in February 2023.

In July of the same year, Jackson He publicly embarrassed Palmer For wearing a see-through dress at Usher’s Las Vegas residency show. She vented her frustrations in a post on X/Twitter, writing over a video of Palmer being serenaded by the R&B singer: “This outfit, you’re a mother.”

after receiving widespread reactionJackson doubled down on his comments, saying: “We live in a generation where the man of the family doesn’t want his wife and mother to show off their booty cheeks to please others, and is told how hateful she is.”

“This is my family and my representation. “I have the standards and moral values ​​I believe in,” he said. “I rest my case.”

Palmer later Restraining order filed against Jackson in November 2023, alleging multiple incidents of physical abuse. A temporary restraining order was granted against Jackson, as well as temporary custody of their son.

In December, Jackson filed a restraining order against Palmer, claiming he engaged in “abusive behavior during the two-and-a-half-year relationship.” But after court-ordered mediation, Palmer and Jackson reached an amicable agreement over joint custody of Leo.