LaKeith Stanfield announced his engagement to exemplary Kasmere Trice amid paternity claims from creator Tylor Hurd, who said that the Atlanta histrion fathered her babe but kept it a "secret."
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Sorry to fuss you, but there's been a improvement in LaKeith Stanfield's emotion life.
The Atlanta star is engaged to model Kasmere Trice amid paternity claims from different pistillate alleging that helium secretly fathered her child. The allegations travel aft LaKeith announced his engagement to Kasmere, penning successful a Dec. 30 Instagram station alongside a photograph of his girlfriend rocking immoderate bling connected her wedding ringing finger, "Happy day to you baby."
Kasmere besides confirmed that the Get Out actor had popped the question during a day travel to the Bahamas, tweeting that aforesaid day, "yea.. i'm having the champion birthday. my babe made maine mrs. Stanfield for my birthday!"
However, erstwhile the mates shared a representation of them ringing successful the caller twelvemonth arsenic fiancés connected Dec. 31, paternity allegations surrounding LaKeith surfaced online. As seen successful a now-deleted Instagram station captured by The Neighborhood Talk, creator Tylor Hurd claimed LaKeith had fathered her baby girl Apollo and shared a video montage showing the 31-year-old spending household clip with the mother-daughter duo.
"Decided to permission being someone's concealed household successful 2022," she wrote successful the caption. "meet Apollo Stanfield."
Screenshots from the comments conception of the now-deleted video besides showed LaKeith and Tylor's respective accounts exchanging words astir the baby. "Thanks for respecting my not wanting to blast my kid retired to the internet. Very considerate of you," work a connection from LaKeith's account, prompting Tylor to reply, "Value your privateness is wherefore you lied to radical saying she wasn't your babe oregon that I was conscionable a random? you worth your privateness but your gf station everything y'all bash lol okay."
LaKeith's relationship past wrote back, "I ne'er erstwhile successful my beingness said she wasn't my baby. I anticipation this does immoderate it was expected to bash for you."
While Tylor did not respond to LaKeith's latest comment, she did station a connection connected her Instagram Story soon pursuing her online speech with the Knives Out alum. In a screenshot of her station captured by Page Six, the 24-year-old wrote, "just to wide a fewer things up I'm not jealous that's [sic] he's engaged to a pistillate he's known for 5 months."
Tylor added, "what I'm upset astir is that helium made much clip to walk with this pistillate than he's spent with Apollo her full beingness and has been actively ignoring maine erstwhile I'm trying to fig things retired for our child. Those clips of him and her unneurotic are each I person successful wide origin helium hardly sees her."
For his part, LaKeith—who welcomed his archetypal child with The Mindy Project actress Xosha Roquemore in 2017—has seemingly moved past the drama. On Dec. 12, helium wrote connected his Instagram, "Back to work. Loved the holidays and spending clip with family. Some truly large moments with loved ones. Beautiful clip with my fiancé and the reinforcement of our enslaved successful the midst of immoderate benignant of climate."
He added, "Love is simply a travel due to the fact that astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic it tin animate truly monolithic beauteous feelings of connectedness, it tin besides animate symptom and anger, and astatine the extremity of the time I deliberation that's portion of what makes it truthful special."
E! News reached retired to LaKeith's rep but did not person a comment.
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