Halle Bailey & DDG: A Timeline Of Their Whirlwind Romance

Halle Bailey and DDG Relationship Timeline:

From their red carpet debut to some of their most talked-about moments to becoming first-time parents to their baby Halo, here's Halle Bailey and DDG's complete relationship timeline.

January 2022: Halle and DDG attend Usher's Las Vegas residency.

DDG and Halle spark dating rumors after being spotted together enjoying Usher's Las Vegas residency in January 2022.

February 2022: Halle and DDG have dinner together in Malibu.

On Febuary 7, the then-21-year-old Halle was photographed with DDG leaving dinner at Nobu.

March 2022: DDG makes things Instagram official and confirms his relationship with Halle.

In a now-deleted Instagram post, DDG took to Instagram to give a birthday shoutout to the Ungodly Hour singer. Professing his love, he wrote, "Happy Birthday to the beautifulest, the flyest, the sweetest ❤️. Love you forever 🥺💎."

March 2022: Halle posts a cute TikTok of singing lessons with DDG. 

It's giving wholesome. In a viral moment, Halle showed the world a glimpse of DDG's softer side as they playfully engaged in "singing lessons."

April 2022: Halle and DDG are spotted together at a Coachella party.

About a month after making things Instagram official, the pair were spotted together boo'd up at a Coachella party.

June 2022: Halle Bailey and DDG make their red carpet couple debut. 

For their red carpet debut as a couple, Halle and DDG made things an all-black affair at the 2022 BET Awards red carpet. At the awards show, Halle told Extra, "I have my boo with me today."

She also revealed their excitement and anticipation for her sister Chloe's performance that night. "We’re so excited. We’re gonna have so much fun just supporting Chloe. It’ll be great!"

July 2022: DDG tells DJ Akademiks how Halle inspires and motivates him to be better.

In a July interview with the media personality, DDG revealed:

"I honestly get inspired by my girl. She honestly motivated me to be better and work harder and get to certain levels. I look up to her in a sense 'cause it's, like, I never been around nobody that really . . . 'cause I feel like I'm always the motivator, I'm the inspirer."

"It's like I'm in a different mode now where I'm getting inspired by somebody. I feel like it's healthy in that way for me 'cause it's like a weight off my shoulders. It's like, 'Okay, I need to work harder.' It's challenging in a good way. It just makes me want to go harder versus feeling overwhelmed or some shit."

September 2022: Halle stars as the leading lady in DDG's "If I Want You" video.

Are you really dating if you don't appear in at least one of your rapper boyfriend's videos as a leading lady? Halle flexed her acting chops, served face, and provided her famously angelic vocals in DDG's "If I Want You." The heat was palpable.

September 2022: Halle and DDG attend Paris Fashion Week.

The pair were spotted attending the Roger Vivier Press day for Paris Fashion Week.

October 2022: Halle and DDG step out for the Wearable Art Gala event.

Halle and DDG were all smiles as they dazzled at the 5th Annual WACO Wearable Art Gala red carpet together.

October 2022: DDG says he's 'very proud' of Halle and her success. 

While promoting his album, It's Not Me, It's You, DDG gushed to PEOPLE about his happiness for his girlfriend Halle's career.

"I'm very proud of her. And I'm just happy to see it. I feel like sometimes I'm even more excited than anybody else. Just seeing it and seeing everything that she dreamed of coming to life, it's really dope."

November 2022: Halle says she's 'been a fan' of DDG in a cover story with ESSENCE.

Halle opened up about knowing who her rapper boyfriend was before actually meeting him in a cover story with ESSENCE. “I’ve been a fan of his for years. I grew up being on YouTube and would always see the young Black creators and was constantly inspired by them. He was one of them.”

She shared with the mag that she was familiar with his music as early as 2015, but that they didn't connect until he slid in her DMs. "But then I saw that he was dropping music, and I really gravitated toward this one song. Coincidentally he messaged me — and the rest is history."

November 2022: DDG gushes about Halle's influence on his life.

During a November interview with The Breakfast Club, DDG told the hosts:

“I’ve never been with nobody that’s like really motivated me like [Halle] do. I’m seeing different shit. I ain’t really been around this type of shit before, so it’s like, she’s bringing me around shit that I ain’t really—you know what I’m saying? ‘Oh, this is crazy. This is dope.’ You know what I mean? This is somebody that’s really like … I was my own person before her, but in a way, put me on to different shit. That’s dope because I’m usually the one putting motherfuckers on.”

When the subject of marriage entered the chat, DDG admitted he could "eventually" see himself proposing to Halle.

December 2022: DDG and Halle hit the 'Avatar 2' blue carpet.

The couple carpet appearances keep racking as DDG and Halle stepped out together to support the James Cameron sequel, Avatar 2: The Way Of Water.

January 2023: DDG and Halle attend the Grand Reveal Weekend for Atlantis The Royal.

​Halle Bailey and DDG showed support to the Queen by attending a private event for the Atlantis The Royal opening together in Dubai. The opening marked Beyoncé's return to the stage after a four-year hiatus.

January 2023: Halle and DDG tweet their love for each other out loud.

😎 i love you more https://t.co/kbhQ9zpKvZ

— DDG (@PontiacMadeDDG) February 1, 2023

High on love, Halle tweeted in late January, "i love my man ngl." DDG responded to her tweet, "i love you more."

February 2023: Rumors of a Halle Bailey and DDG breakup spark.

Fans picked up on DDG no longer following Halle on Instagram and wiping any and all traces of her from his account. This plus the "Hold Up" rapper posting a cryptic tweet that read, "all these girls the same … ain’t no wayy" had fans speculating that there was trouble in paradise and that the relationship was over.

But DDG responded to breakup claims and shut them down by saying that the internet was "gullible." He also told fans not to take his tweets "serious."

February 2023: DDG and Halle shut down cheating rumors involving Rubi Rose.

Rumors swirled after DDG's ex Rubi Rose made a messy comment towards Halle that spiraled into her sharing alleged receipts that DDG was trying to spin the block despite being involved with Halle. Both Halle and DDG denied the rumors, however.

Halle shared in a tweet that the "devil is working" and implored fans not to feed "into the lies, especially from a third party."

March 2023: Halle and DDG hit the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party following breakup rumors.

After the slight relationship hiccups that came with the start of 2023, Halle and DDG showed that they were solid in their relationship while attending the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones.

April 2023: Halle opens up about experiencing "deep love" with DDG to 'British Vogue.'

In a cover story with Britsh Vogue, Halle revealed that the love she shares with DDG is a "deep love" and one that she never experienced outside of her family. She shared:

"Experiencing deep love for the first time in my life is something I feel has opened a whole new world for me creatively. What it feels like to love someone other than your family, like somebody you may not have known two years ago but now they're the center of your world."

"I like all of the scary feelings that come with that. I like the suspense, the not knowing what's going to happen, and I feel like that's what I'm supposed to be going through in womanhood."

In the same interview, she also referred to their relationship as "deeply sacred." Whew.

May 2023: Halle says loving DDG is a "transformative experience."

In an exclusive with PEOPLE, Halle touched on experiencing young love through DDG. "I think the best thing about young love is that you're able to continue to find yourself through this journey of loving somebody else. And you're discovering new parts of yourself and maybe things that you didn't notice before about your heart," she revealed to the outlet about her young romance with her boyfriend.

"I feel like things change when love gets more involved in your life. I have definitely discovered more within myself as a woman. …It's a really cool thing to go through, but a transformative experience."

July 2023: DDG releases "Famous" and fans believe he is dissing Halle.

It could be life imitating art, or art imitating life, but DDG's song "Famous" seemed to talk about the highs and lows of being the boyfriend of a rising star. On the track, he rapped, "Filmin' a movie now you kissing dudes / You know I love you a lot / I don't give a fuck if that shit for promo / I don't wanna see this shit no more."

Fans took the song as a sneak diss to Halle and slammed the rapper for what they viewed as disrespect to Halle, spawning the backlash of him being called a "failed rapper" by supporters of the Chloe x Halle singer. DDG denied claims that "Famous" was anything more than a song, however. "It's just music y'all," he said in a video reposted by The Shade Room.

He went on to add, "It's the entertainment business. Relax, calm down, chill out. You know it is what it is. I'm used to getting hated on."

September 2023: Halle opens up about her first 'deep, real love' with DDG.

Halle sat down with Cosmopolitan as a part of her press run to support her film, The Little Mermaid. She told the outlet that she drew a lot of musical inspo from love and that she was experiencing love "for the first time, and it’s, like, ‘whoa’ in your brain. It’s just fireworks, a spark for creativity."

She continued, "You know, you have puppy love experiences, you think that’s love. But this is my first deep, deep, real love."

September 2023: Halle and DDG attend Milan Fashion Week.

Halle and DDG were spotted cuddled up at the Gucci Ancora during Milan Fashion Week.

October 2023: DDG and Halle attend the Glamour Women of the Year Awards.

Halle looked absolutely radiant as the pair stepped out in London for the Glamour Women of the Year Awards on October 17 where the actress was an honoree of the night. She received the award for Gen Z Game-Changer and, when accepting her award, shared her experience of navigating scrutiny over her choices and offered the crowd encouragement to live life on their own terms:

"It's been an adjustment to live my life under the scrutiny of that spotlight. But, in the age of social media, in some way, we all live under that same scrutiny. From what we wear to who we love to the things we care about – It’s all open to scrutiny. So, here’s my honest advice. Turn it off when you need to find inner peace. But also, live your life for you. Don’t waste time living it for social media.

"Everyone has an opinion but the only opinion that matters is your own – you already know deep down what’s right for you. For me, it works because I keep it simple. I put God first and then I try to make decisions that are best for me in that moment."

January 2024: Halle Bailey and DDG announce the birth of their son, Halo.

Though neither of the pair confirmed there was any truth to the pregnancy speculation surrounding their relationship in much of the latter half of 2023, Halle Bailey and DDG started 2024 with news of the birth of their son. DDG dropped the visual to his song "Darryl Freestyle" which included a lyric revealing he had become a dad as well as the child's name, Halo.

Not too soon after, Halle took to Instagram to share a selfie of DDG's hand, her hand, and baby Halo's tiny hand. In her caption, she wrote, "even though we're a few days into the new year, the greatest thing that 2023 could have done for me, was bring me my son.. welcome to the world my halo."

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