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Ashanti Reveals How Nelly Proposed and Why Their Relationship Is Different a Second Time Around (Exclusive)

Ashanti shares details from Nelly's proposal, what she wants for their wedding, and who helped them get back together.

But, after crossing paths in 2021 -- nearly a decade after their split-- at Fat Joe and Ja Rule's Verzuz battle, Nelly got Ashanti's number from DJ City and, well, here she is three years later, engaged and speaking to ET at her maternity shoot with photographer Derek Blanks. Watching TV in bed while wearing his T-shirt and boxers, Ashanti was "completely" shocked. As for what those wedding festivities will entail, Ashanti says she has to have a beach, sunshine, and palm trees as she says "I do" to Nelly in a moment decades in the making.

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