The actress, 31, and author of new book Master of Me, opens up to PEOPLE in this week's cover story about what really happened when she attended Usher's hit concert last year, and how she handled the fallout with ex Darius Jackson.
In early 2023, Palmer and Jackson appeared every bit the happy couple after welcoming their son Leo in February. But behind the scenes, “there was a lot going on,” she says, even before Jackson took to social media with a gripe that July.
In early 2023, Palmer and Jackson appeared every bit the happy couple after welcoming their son Leo in February. But behind the scenes, “there was a lot going on,” she says, even before Jackson took to social media with a gripe that July.
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00:00Things got really difficult with Darius and even more public when Usher entered the picture.
00:09I get that people feel like celebrities all know each other or they're thinking in their mind that
00:16I mean ultimately I was doing what I do as an entertainer, as I was creating a fun moment.
00:22You know that's what he does with every entertainer that comes to his show.
00:25How it became a genuine storyline of that me and Usher in love or me and
00:29Usher have something going on. You know I don't know how it got there but usually as we all know
00:34things are never really what they they seem. Seeing what Darius posted what was your reaction?
00:40I was speechless because I was at a
00:43a photo shoot and everybody was looking all weird. I was like are y'all good?
00:53And then I randomly was on my phone and I saw a Shave Room post of the comment and I was just I
00:58was honestly just shocked. That was all I was just like okay and then it continued and then I was just
01:06I didn't have no words and it's not reality. I didn't want to gain
01:09engage with something that wasn't reality so I kind of just became removed and then
01:14at that point for me I kind of just wanted it to not exist in the workspace because ultimately
01:18that's what it is for me you know. In my opinion I was just at a concert. I don't know how anybody
01:24else receives that whether they know me or whether they're online. It was not that reality for me
01:30um so I didn't know what to do with it because I'm not I'm not in that reality. It's crazy. It got so
01:37out of control and the only way that you know how to bring order or control to something is the court.
01:42I mean there's no that's literally what it's there for is you know what I mean and it becomes
01:46difficult because I can't control all the information. You have people like TMZ they got
01:54friends in the court you know what I mean so it's like I don't I don't want this is not for the public
01:58this is for me to bring order in within my family the only way that you that I know how which is
02:04through the court not through the public but the public's still gonna somehow know um and so that
02:10was difficult because I don't I was not looking to make a scene I guess is the thing you know I wasn't
02:15looking to make a scene I was just looking to bring order to something you know I mean bring
02:18balance okay um the best way that I could.