The Keke Palmer story ended up being such a huge deal. Her partner/boyfriend Darius Jackson couldn’t handle Keke having a girls’ night out at the Usher show in Las Vegas. Instead of talking to the mother of his child about it directly, Darius ran to Twitter, where he made a small-D-energy tweet about how Keke is a mother and she shouldn’t dress proactively anymore. Granted, some of the worst people in the world took his side (this is Twitter, after all), but it was amazing to see how thoroughly Darius was destroyed online. Black Twitter pulled all of the receipts about his behavior, his sketchy f–king tweets and likes, his casual misogyny and much more. He deleted his Twitter account for a little while but now it’s back up, I think.
More than anything, this one incident showed that Keke is really beloved and people have her back, even when her dogsh-t partner tries to weaponize the internet’s misogynoir against her. But Keke still hasn’t said anything directly about Darius or what he said. She’s made posts about “I’m a Motha!” and talked about how motherhood has changed her life. She also made a TikTok where she’s dancing to a clip of herself saying, “You ain’t stopping what’s going on with me, sweetheart. So if you gon act up, I’m bouta link up.”
With all of the cryptic (or not so cryptic) back and forth on social media about who tweeted what and who deleted their account and what Keke posted when, people noticed something else: Keke and Darius unfollowed each other on Instagram, and Darius removed all of the photos of Keke on his page. I glanced through Keke’s page – I have no idea if she’s deleted some stuff or she never had many photos of Darius to begin with, but I did spy a video or two of Darius on her Insta.
In any case, the vibe is definitely that Darius and Keke broke up or they’re significantly on the rocks. Some have even theorized that Keke dumped Darius BEFORE he tweeted about her trip to the Usher show and that’s why he was acting up. I don’t know, honestly – it would make a lot of sense if Darius’s tweets weren’t the start of all of this but the conclusion.
Darius Daulton has scrubbed all traces of Keke Palmer from his Instagram.
The pair also no longer follow each other. pic.twitter.com/atDIJDJR3u
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) July 8, 2023
Who is Keke Palmer’s boyfriend, and does he prove that men from Philly are ‘embarrassing’? We investigate. https://t.co/gTogIvaNY3
— The Philadelphia Inquirer (@PhillyInquirer) July 8, 2023
Noooooo, not #Essence dragging Keke Palmer's baby daddy as well with scientific facts and figures. pic.twitter.com/bUqombv8D3
— Dana Abercrombie #AmplifyBlackVoices (@sagesurge) July 7, 2023
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- Keke Palmer attends the UK Special Screening of ‘Nope’ at Odeon Luxe, Leicester Square, London, England, UK on Thursday 28 July, 2022.,Image: 710532181, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/Retna/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- Keke Palmer attends the UK Special Screening of ‘Nope’ at Odeon Luxe, Leicester Square, London, England, UK on Thursday 28 July, 2022.,Image: 710532185, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/Retna/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 15: Keke Palmer attends the 2nd Annual Academy Museum Gala at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 15, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.,Image: 731158907, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Keke Palmer, Credit line: Jeffrey Mayer / Avalon
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- LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA – OCTOBER 15: Keke Palmer arrives at the 2nd Annual Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Gala presented by Rolex held at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 15, 2022 in Los Angeles, California, United States.,Image: 731264050, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Keke Palmer, Credit line: Image Press Agency / Image Press Agency / Avalon
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- 2023 Fragrance Foundation Awards at David Koch Theater – Outside Arrivals Featuring: Keke Palmer Where: New York City, New York, United States When: 15 Jun 2023 Credit: Janet Mayer/startraksphoto.com
She deserves so much better, but the douche will probably go for $$$ in “child support”
honestly so scary how guys like this are literally everywhere, you may never know who a man really is until you’re in deep.
i’m really sorry keke had to deal with this, and in public no less. but, yeah, she deserves soo much better.
all the best to her and their baby!
Guys have been like this forever, except women weren’t able to leave as they had been trapped by society and the men knew it and took advantage of it. Some men still have this mentality and they simply refuse to grow up and are forever afraid of allowing women their own autonomy.
I’m glad that Keke pulled the plug as she deserves so much better than him.
He looks like a budget, pre-In Living Color Damon Wayans.
A budget Wayans brother from Wish.
This story has been killing me on the subreddits. Seriously, you’re in her house, with her baby, eating her food, using her internet to tweet about what she should do? It’s not like she was out here cheating on you, you’re just mad she looked great and Usher sang to her. [Side note: people shipping her and Usher, cut that stuff out. Did the internet forget about Usher? H*rpes shouldn’t have a stigma, but giving it to folks without their consent is still d-bag moves.]
Be like Stedman. Show up, look good in pics, be good at home, and STFU. Keke is on a mega-star, one-name trajectory, and is already known and beloved. All you had to do was be a good partner.
*sigh* Between this and Jonah Hill, it’s the weekend of dragging men.
Amen to everything you said.
Yep!! The subreddits have been hilarious! But seriously, what is going on with the men out there? I do not understand why guys can’t be supportive and proud of their partners! It makes me appreciate Mr. Smith a great deal.
Kelly Clarkson (another one let down by an a..hole) sang it perfectly in her new album “don’t need somebody who feels weak standing next to me”.
All those fragile little men need to SIT DOWN!
Kelly’s new album has some fabulous burns in it.
And yes – why not be so proud of what Keke is accomplishing, and proud to be the one she chose to be with? This guy is a really dumbass for acting as he did, AND putting it all out there and being a public embarrassment.
I understand the sentiment about Stedman, but the man isn’t a kept man. Unlike Darius, Stedman had a career before he met Oprah. She isn’t creating opportunities for him to make money. He was already established with his own funds.
Darius lives off of Keke. Without her, he’d be what he is now. Unemployed. Now he’s got a producing gig on her show and a means to care for his kid. I do believe they were already over because he was messy and hitting up women in their DMs.
Yes to ALL of this! You’re living in her pocket and then have the gall to try to slut shame her? This is the definition of trifling and ain’t nobody go time for that. If he wanted to be in his feelings about it, the approach should have been a PRIVATE conversation, not try to flex for your brothers in ashiness.
Keke is a riot, selling sweatshirts with “I’m a Motha”
A video surfaced with Steve Harvey, telling Keke to look for a man that she don’t have to support.
Steve Harvey’s advice is not always the best the last woman who Steve set up husband was arrested for a long list of crimes including child pornography and something to do with inappropriate photos of animals.
Another couple Steve matched ended in a quick divorce.
I definitely said they aren’t together anymore when I saw this first tweet. But hopefully she is moving on. She doesn’t need his bs in her life.
Same, to me it seems like they split before the concert and he was throwing a tantrum.
Good for Keke.
Yup!
I love the way Keke exited. She didn’t stoop to his level and trash him publicly. She didn’t dim her shine to soothe him. She just “subtly” showed him how she would be living her best life and left.
Ditto. I love her for many things, including this. I hope anyone in a similar situation sees the same possibilities.
I love Keke! Have been a fan since she was a kid – crazy smart, dedicated and multi-talented. I hope she continues to know her worth and keep that in mind when dealing with this kind of s***. Too bad she’s now linked for life to him since they share a child. Hopefully they can figure out coparenting.
I’m not so sure. I suspect they just want the world to get out of their relationship, so removed all traces of being associated with each other.
I wish Keke good friends close by. She seems to be thriving, but she still postpartum. She looks good. Sounds great. I truly hope she is.
I remember when people across geographic, racial, ethnic, and financial lines laughed when Megan Markle said she did not google Prince Harry, but instead scroll through his private Instagram feed. Even people who believe everything else Meghan said, said it was impossible, improbable, unlikely that she hadn’t googled him.
From what Black Twitter found on Darius‘s Instagram it seems if Keke had gone through his Instagram history carefully she might’ve made a better decision. But then again, maybe not.
Yup, it seems to me Meghan is unusually savvy. She knows how to research for the real scoop. The media, as we know now more than ever, creates a persona that rarely has anything to do with the actual human. Instagram though, even curated, reveals a lot about a person’s interests and priorities.
I think if you look through someones IG feed you see what they’re into and what kind of person they are, who they hang out with , do the they look like they’re having fun. Google is just a collection of facts and gossip, IG is the person writing a story about their life.
I hope she has really good friends and an excellent lawyer. She’s going to be linked to this guy forever because of their child and she needs to get her ducks in a row. Good luck, Keke. God bless you and your child.