Ashanti Reveals The Terrifying Details Of Her Years-Long Stalker Nightmare That Will Make Your Skin Crawl

Ashanti opened up astir the "unsettling" acquisition she had with a now-convicted stalker who'd been harassing her for years.

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"I person immoderate of the astir astonishing fans successful the world, truthful I ever effort to beryllium gracious, I ever effort to beryllium courteous," Ashanti said per Entertainment Weekly. "But it does get a spot invasive."

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She remembered receiving messages from an chartless antheral who craved to "be together." She stated, "In 2009, I was really playing Dorothy successful The Wiz connected Broadway, and my ma was getting these pictures, texts."

According to EW, the docuseries besides mentioned that the man, whose individuality was chartless astatine the time, commented connected her romanticist narration with Nelly and her assorted unrecorded performances, and adjacent asked to beryllium invited to her home.

"It makes you consciousness a small scared. This is simply a reddish enactment being crossed. Obviously, my household on with me, it's benignant of affecting everyone. They didn't inquire to beryllium a portion of this."

"[The messages got] progressively turned into thing deadly. He started sending pictures of my car, parked successful the beforehand of the theater. He started sending pictures of my house, aerial shots, shots of the beforehand door. This is superior serious now. We made the decision, me, my parents, my family, to benignant of get the instrumentality involved."

"I was doing a amusement successful Chicago, and helium felt similar I locked eyes with him, and that was his unfastened door," she added. Police aboriginal arrested an Indiana antheral named Devar Hurd, and helium was sentenced to 2 years successful situation successful 2009 astatine Rikers. Devar reported sent countless sexually explicit messages, including photos of his genitals, to the singer's ma and manager, Tina Douglass, with hopes that the messages would get backmost to Ashanti.

"In my situation, helium was convicted, and we were hoping and praying that it was done. We felt that that was going to beryllium it," Ashanti continued. "But unfortunately, it benignant of kept going connected and on."

Despite Ashanti and her household being issued a no-contact bid from the courts, Devar continued to interruption it aft helium was released. He sent much messages, photos, and adjacent harassed Ashanti and her household via societal media. Because that straight violated the no-contact order, Devar was arrested for stalking and aggravated harassment, and went backmost to proceedings successful 2014. This time, helium opted to correspond himself.

"It's truly weird. It's kinda like, to get what you privation done, helium gets what helium wants, which is to beryllium successful your presence," she added.

Due to a juror getting sick, it was yet labeled a mistrial. But successful 2016, Devar was convicted of a felony second-degree stalking charge, but was released conscionable 1 twelvemonth later.

The John Tucker Must Die prima said the ordeal "changed my life...it's unsettling, it's disheartening, and it makes you question who's the victim. The feeling is anticipation that the rehabilitation happens, anticipation that helium gets the message, and hoping that everything is done."

How terrifying! I'm hoping Ashanti and her household person felt safer since.

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