Keke Palmer is peeling back the curtain on her past entanglement with Darius Jackson, offering candid confessions about a romance that veered from fairytale to fiasco.

What began as a seemingly picture-perfect love story unraveled in 2023 after Palmer’s now-infamous interaction with Usher during his Las Vegas residency. The multi-hyphenate star was serenaded by the R&B singer, a moment that sparked a social media meltdown from Jackson — who took to X, formerly Twitter, to publicly condemn Palmer, accusing her of being an unfit mother.