Iggy Azalea has opened up and detailed the final straw leading to her decision to end her relationship with Playboi Carti.
During a recent interview on model Emily Ratajkowski’s High Low with EmRata podcast, Azalea delved into the final days of her dysfunctional partnership with the “Magnolia,” rapper who she shares a son with. While explaining what the motivating factors were compelling her to call it quits, Azalea described making a same-day, last-minute decision to fly to Los Angeles with her newborn baby in order to get away from her ex-lover.
“Like, right after I had my son, I left his father,” Iggy told Ratajkowski. “Something happened one day with my son’s father and me and it was just one of those moments where you’re just like, ‘I didn’t wake up thinking this is what my day would be.’ But by the end of the day, I was on a plane to Los Angeles and I never went back and that was the end of it.”
Azalea continued, labeling her union with Carti as “volatile,” while talking about navigating their breakup during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Don’t get me wrong. We had a volatile relationship and you know that, you’re not an idiot,” she said. “You know when something’s not working, I knew it wasn’t working. But I also just had a baby, it was COVID. There were a lot of things to navigate for me at that time and I didn’t think I’d be leaving when I left.”
The New Classic rapper went on to reveal that part of her decision to leave Carti was also rooted in the unhealthy relationship her parents had, which she asserts she never wanted her son to experience growing up like she did.
“My father and my mother had such a volatile relationship that I wish I had seen less of it,” she said in part. “And so that was what happened to me in that moment that I had on that day. I was like, ‘I will never let my son see this,’ because I don’t want him to see someone talk to me this way too, because I don’t want him to ever learn this, I don’t want him to be exposed to this.”
Azalea added that while she believes she and Carti’s relationship was a “toxic cycle,” she too played a part in the perpetuation of it and needed to be more accountable for herself and the sake of her son.
“And even though I felt that I was in a bit of a toxic cycle — a lot of a toxic cycle with the person…I’m accountable for ways that I participate in it. I just felt I had to be more accountable to myself into what I’m doing with my child, and even if there are days where I wanna go back to this, I just never would do it. I will never do it,” she said.
Azalea welcomed her child with Carti in 2020, two years after they initially started dating exclusively. Over the years, the Australian-bred artist has called Carti out on multiple occasions, notably accusing him of missing their son’s first Christmas holiday because he was cheating on her. Azalea’s latest statements about their relationship follow abuse allegations in which Carti is accused of allegedly strangling his new baby mama.
Elsewhere in the interview, Azalea discusses her decision to start an OnlyFans account, motherhood, cosmetic surgery and her upcoming career moves. Stream the full podcast below — Azalea begins to break down her relationship with Carti around the 19-minute mark of the conversation.