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UPDATE: 8/6, 8:55 p.m. ET — Kehlani launched an announcement in response to the “cult” allegations made by ex Javaughn Younger-White after he filed for full custody of their daughter, Adeya Nomi.
The singer took to their social media on Tuesday to name the claims “extremely hurtful, inaccurate, inappropriate and easily unfaithful.”
“I strongly deny any claims that I’ve put my little one in hurt’s approach, or left my little one alone with anybody deemed harmful or unsafe,” their assertion learn through their Instagram Story. “I additionally don’t align with any of the allegations made in opposition to my former spiritual group.”
They continued, “I’ve at all times taken nice care to make sure that my little one stays protected and secure always. My little one and my dedication to motherhood have at all times been my sole driving forces on this life and can at all times stay so. That is who I’m and what I’ve at all times targeted on.”
Kehlani famous that the dispute with Younger-White is a “authorized, personal, familial matter” and that they might be taking “area for my very own private well-being” and the “well-being of my little one.”
“Thanks in your assist and for respecting my privateness,” they concluded. “I cannot be commenting additional and can let the authorized due course of happen.”
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Kehlani’s ex Javaughn Younger-White is demanding full custody of their 5-year-old daughter, Adeya Nomi.
In response to paperwork obtained by Folks on Monday, August 5, Younger-White, 27, filed for full authorized custody of Adeya — in addition to little one assist — in a Los Angeles courtroom on July 24, alleging his ex is concerned in a cult.
“Adeya was born by means of a house beginning orchestrated by what I might describe as a cult that she belongs in,” Younger-White claims within the submitting, per the outlet, including that as a result of “Adeya was born in a house and never in a traditional setting like a hospital” his identify doesn’t seem on her beginning certificates.
Within the paperwork, Younger-White alleged that the “cult” Kehlani is concerned with has full management over each the singer’s life and “on the subject of the upbringing” of their daughter.
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Per courtroom paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, each Kehlani and Younger-White should take part in court-ordered mediation to debate their custody settlement.
Younger-White claimed {that a} cult chief, not named within the paperwork, with “quite a few accusations of committing sexual assault” in opposition to girls and ladies satisfied Kehlani he was a menace to their daughter, inflicting them to go no-contact for months.
Javaughn Younger-White. Leon Bennett/Getty Pictures for BET
Younger-White additionally filed a petition to “decide [his] parental relationship” with Adeya, including that he has requested since she was born that his identify be included on her beginning certificates. Moreover, he alleges that Kehlani received’t give him entry to Adeya’s social safety quantity, main him to doubt that she even has one.
Us has reached out to Kehlani and Younger-White’s representatives for remark.
The courtroom paperwork, per Billboard, additionally declare that when Younger-White tried to take his daughter previously, he was “bodily restrained and threatened” by who he recognized as cult members.
“Whereas [Kehlani] is on tour, and our daughter is within the care of her fellow cult members, Adeya sleeps within the mattress with and is given baths by random grownup members of the cult and he or she is commonly within the bed room alone with a few of these folks,” the courtroom paperwork state.
Younger-White concluded his submitting with further requests that Kehlani be psychologically evaluated, and is requesting full custody of Adeya as a result of “Honey” artist’s “busy schedule” and “relationship with the cult that [they are] concerned in.”
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Younger-White and Kehlani, who makes use of they/them pronouns, dated from 2018 to 2019. Kehlani delivered Adeya in a homebirth in March 2019. “This weekend our angel arrived earthside completely wholesome & stuffed with marvel,” they wrote through X on the time. “Unmedicated homebirth was indescribable. taking time to be household and heal. thanks everybody who despatched us love and assist on her journey earthside!”
Kehlani additionally famous within the put up that they had been “honored” to be joined by Younger-White, who they described as “an incredible associate whom [I] belief with my physique and life.” Kehlani added that Younger-White was “the one man on earth [they] belief.”
