Ashanti and Nelly.Photo:Paras Griffin/Getty
Paras Griffin/Getty
Two decades sinceNellyandAshantiwere first romantically linked, they keep on running back to each other.
“We are in a great space,” the Grammy winner, 42, tells PEOPLE while carrying a personalized clutch bag printed with a 20-year-old photo of her and Nelly, 48, on the carpet. “Everything is positive. [We’re] having a lot of fun.”
Ashanti.Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty
Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty
Ashanti and Nelly have been linked on and off since 2003 and have kept the details of their relationship under wraps. In 2008, they collaborated on the sexy R&B-pop song “Body on Me” with Akon — and she says fans can “maybe” expect another duet from the couple in the future.
“I think it surprised both of us,” Nelly added. “It wasn’t anything that was planned.”
Nelly and Ashanti attend Ashanti’s Birthday Party in 2007.Johnny Nunez/WireImage
Johnny Nunez/WireImage
“We both were pretty much doing what we do,” explained the “Ride Wit Me” performer. “But sometimes being separate, you understand one another more. You could be like, ‘Well yo, let me exactly see maybe what they see.’ We all can be defensive sometimes in our own relationships. We know we wrong but we going to stand on it, you know what I mean? But we all a victim to that.”
Nelly also told the hosts their relationship is in a positive place. “I mean, because it’s no pressure,” he explained, “Before I felt like both of us are doing what we’re doing before career-wise, And when you got so many people in the middle of it, it can be tough.”
Both musicians have been spotted together in the last several months, sparking rumors of a reconciliation. In June of this year, the two appeared atthe 3rd Annual Birthday Ballfor Quality Control CEO Pierre “P” Thomas at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta.
source: people.com
