Halle Bailey Reacts To Claims She 'Lied' About Her Pregnancy

Halle Bailey caught many fans off-guard this month when she announced that she and rapper boyfriend DDG had welcomed their first child , son Halo  but others have taken issue with her decision to keep her pregnancy under wraps. 

On Sunday, the Little Mermaid star issued a strongly worded rebuttal after a user on X, formerly Twitter, claimed shed gone out of her way to lie and gaslight with regard to being pregnant in the months leading up to Halos birth. 

i never lied or even said anything about it honey, Bailey wrote. making a joke about my nose was the farthest i went. ill never understand why you are mad i protected my own peace, wouldnt you do the same?

After another X user urged Bailey to leave us out [of] the conversation with regard to her baby moving forward, the actor and singer shot back : if u dont care why are u responding then sweetheart just dont care by living ur best life and not commenting on mine. 

Bailey first confirmed Halos arrival with a sweet photo on Instagram earlier this month. She notably didnt specify her sons birthday, noting only that shed given birth sometime last year. 

Prior to the Instagram post, Bailey hadnt spoken about her pregnancy publicly, save for a clap back at a Snapchat user last November who claimed she had a pregnancy nose. 

Still, many media outlets were quick to point out that she appeared to start wearing loose-fitting clothes in photo shoots and on the red carpet toward the latter half of 2023. And despite a plum role in the musical adaptation of The Color Purple, she was largely absent from the films press tour, with the sole exception of its Los Angeles premiere. 

In the weeks since announcing Halos arrival, Bailey has offered glimpses at her pregnancy with throwback clips, including footage of an underwater maternity shoot that felt straight out of The Little Mermaid. Shes also hinted at a return to the recording studio. 

Baileys heated social media exchanges, however, may be a thing of the past. Later on Sunday, she wrote : lol my hormones have been on 10 recently so im gonna go back to staying off twitter.