Iggy Azalea says she left her ‘toxic’ relationship with Playboi Carti because it reminded her of her mom and dad’s ‘volatile’ relationship

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Iggy Azalea has opened up about why she chose to leave Playboi Carti. 

The “Fancy” rapper and Carti started dating in 2018 and welcomed a son, Onyx, in June 2020. That October, however, Azalea announced said that she was raising Onyx alone.

In December 2020, Azalea claimed that Carti had missed Onyx’s birth and “refused to sign” his birth certificate. She also accused Carti of being unfaithful during their relationship.

Speaking with Emily Ratajkowski on the model’s podcast “High Low with EmRata” on Monday, Azalea said she left Carti to protect Onyx. 

“Like, right after I had my son, I left his father,” said the 32-year-old star. “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 did not provide details of the incident that prompted her to leave, but said it reminded her of her own household growing up. 

“My father and my mother had such a volatile relationship that I wish I had seen less of it,” she added. “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,” said Azalea. “And even though I felt that I was in a bit of 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.”

Iggy Azalea. Getty/Steve Jennings

Her relationship with Carti wasn’t the only thing Azalea discussed with Ratajkowski.

She also spoke about why she chose to join OnlyFans, despite previously saying she would never sign up for the platform.

“I’ve made a lot of people so much money off my body, and I got the smallest cut off my own fucking body,” she said. “And my own work, and my own ideas.”

The project Azalea was referring to is a “mixed media project” called “Hotter Than Hell,” which she announced in January and said will include photos, videos, and merchandise.