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Keke Palmer Had A Secret 'Inappropriate' Relationship With An Older Man When She Was A Minor On Nickelodeon!

Keke Palmer Reveals She Had Secret ‘Inappropriate’ Relationship With A MUCH Older Man When She Was A Minor On Nickelodeon!

Wow! Keke Palmer just got super candid about an “inappropriate” relationship she was in during her Nickelodeon days. When we say inappropriate… it’s actually pretty shocking!

While promoting her upcoming book, Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative, on Wednesday, the actress opened up about falling in love for the very first time while she was on the sitcom True Jackson VP. The problem? Her boyfriend was older. WAY older! While reflecting on her time on the show, she shared:

“I had a great time doing True Jackson VP, but it was also a very stressful, difficult, depressive time.”

Oof. True Jackson VP followed Keke as a teen corporate executive. A young kid in an adult world…. just like her romance at the time, apparently!

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It was during this show that she began dating a 20-year-old, who she didn’t name, when she was just 15! Yikes! She dished:

“I was 15, he was 20. I was trying to balance between being really young, but also feeling quite mature. If I thought it was inappropriate, then I wouldn’t have done it.”

But, of course, as is often the case with these relationships, she was too young to realize how inappropriate it actually was! She continued:

“Obviously I shouldn’t have been 15 dating no 20-year-old, but in my mind it was like ‘I got a full-time job… Can’t nobody understand me but a grown man.’ But he knew there was a lot of stuff that there’s no damn way for me to understand at damn 15.”

She managed to keep the relationship a secret from her parents — and the rest of the world — even though it lasted 5 YEARS, until she was 20 herself. Whoa! That’s a long time! Looking back, she understands there was nothing about the romance that was “appropriate”:

“I wasn’t mentally able to process and understand things that would’ve made that relationship appropriate.”

In her book, she also addressed the natural imbalance that was created by their age difference, writing:

“The power dynamic put me in a place that harmed me in ways I couldn’t have known. I didn’t have the language or the strength to accept that who he met was a child, not the woman I wanted to become.”

It wasn’t until years later when she fell for her baby daddy and ex-boyfriend Darius Jackson that she realized what true love was, telling the outlet:

“It wasn’t until I was a real grown woman, and even then we know we’ve still got more time to grow. But by 26, 27, 28, I had finally experienced, I think, genuine love.”

Too bad that romance didn’t turn out so well, either. That said, the 31-year-old clarified:

“Not that I didn’t love that [other] person, but it wasn’t until I’d felt what it was like for someone to love me back and to actually give me respect, that I’ve realized that relationship was wrong.”

Poor thing. Such formative years to be in a relationship you look back on as problematic. We know she kept it a secret, but we can’t believe somebody didn’t try to step in and shut the romance down earlier. Surely, there was someone who saw how wrong it was! At least she’s come out stronger on the other side of this, though.

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[Image via Nickelodeon/YouTube & MEGA/WENN]

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Oct 30, 2024 11:42am PDT