Ashanti addresses recent comments from Irv Gotti.
A couple of months ago, Irv Gotti made headlines for his visit to the Drink Champs show, where he made some wild claims about Ashanti, and shared some revelations about a secret relationship with her around 20 years ago.
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Now Ashanti sat down with Angie Martinez on IRL Podcast, where he addressed the whole thing and cleared all the claims that was made by Irv Gotti. “Let’s clear this up,” she said at the 34-minute mark. “We’re not gonna say relationship. We dealt with each other, but was Irv my boyfriend? Was I his girlfriend? Never… Irv had several girlfriends, so I’m a little confused by the label and the description.”
“I think that Irv definitely has his side and his version,” she added. “You know, like, you may think that it’s something and the other person knows that it’s not, and you manifest this thing into something big and it’s really not that. And then when that person finally realizes that it’s not that, it turns them into a completely different person.”
She continued, “Irv has flat-out lied about a lot of things. And the crazy thing is, when we were in a good space, a positive space…pillow talk is a dangerous thing, and there are so many things that I know. I don’t have the desire to expose certain things. I’m happy, I’m in a different space… I don’t play in the mud.”
“It’s weird. It’s very weird when you know you’re lying and you just keep lying. That’s where it becomes a little scary and a little mental because it’s like, ‘Dawg, we can see [the lies].’”
“I’m trying to figure out, like, what made him even say that,” she said on Gotti saying that she made her hit “Happy” after they slept together. “Was I there? I’m confused. I don’t remember this at all. I wrote ‘Happy’ in the parking lot of a C.W. Post college. I was actually on the way to see The Nutcracker with my aunt and my cousins in my 626 Mazda. “As far as the beat goes, I know Irv and Chink [Santana] did the beat, but the story… [laughs].”
“I think it was just perfect timing,” Ashanti said of the song’s release. “There was a lot of stuff going on with me and a lot of controversy happening. Some people don’t know how to move on. So, I felt like this was an opportunity to tell people to move on.”
Ashanti is preparing for her musical comeback. She will release her new track, “Falling for You,” on Friday.
Check out the full interview below.
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