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    Ashanti never imagined she would rekindle her romance with Nelly

    The 44-year-old singer dated Nelly on and off from 2003 until 2013, and the celebrity duo began dating again in 2023 - but Ashanti never saw their reunion coming following an acrimonious break-up.


    Speaking about their rekindled romance, Ashanti told Extra: "I'm a firm believer in what's meant to be will be, you know, and from the Verzuz hug to the phone call later to us talking and, you know, things just kind of organically, naturally happening, it's kinda like you gotta trust the process.

    "I just never saw it coming ... When you put feelings away for a long time and then they kind of just creep back out and you're like, 'What happened? Why is this, why am I feeling like this?'"

    The loved-up couple are now parents to 11-month-old son KK, and Ashanti has been busily planning a "huge" party for her baby boy.

    She said: "We're gonna get the floor redone, we're gonna have the people come in, we're gonna have a bouncy castle, race cars, we're gonna have cotton candy. We're gonna be selling merch, like KK merch."

    Ashanti has embraced the challenge of motherhood, and she admits that her baby boy has transformed her life.

    She shared: "It's the most amazing thing ever ... completely changed my life ... Just being a mom and having those feelings that I didn't even know existed is just like the best thing ever."

    The couple - who tied the knot in December 2023 - are now set to star in their own reality TV series called Nelly and Ashanti: We Belong Together.

    And the rap star thinks it will be a "dope" experience" to have their own show.

    Nelly said: "I had the success of the 'Nellyville' type of thing, and now to have somebody who is as outgoing and as charismatic as she is and as funny as she is, I just thought that it would really, really be dope that people get to see what I see all the time ... kind of bring that partnership together in a sense of letting people into a different day and age of Nelly and Ashanti."

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