Brandy says he relationship with singer Wanya Morris started long before the public ever knew, and now she’s setting the record straight in her new memoir “Phases.”
The R&B icon is naming names and reclaiming her story, writing that Morris “took advantage” of her when she was a teenager and he was already in his early 20s. She describes meeting the Boyz II Men star during their early collaboration days, and says what started as music quickly turned into something deeper and more complicated.
“I was in over my head,” she writes, explaining how sneaking around and lying to her parents became routine while they kept the relationship hidden.
Brandy makes it clear they both understood the stakes. So they created a public narrative that they were waiting until she turned 18, even though, according to her, the relationship had already crossed that line. She recalls losing her virginity to Morris and later noticing red flags, including his comparisons to Mariah Carey and his inconsistent communication.
“The shame ends here. The silence ends here,” Brandy writes. “I was a child. And he was an adult.”
Her account directly clashes with Morris’ past statements. In a 2014 interview on “The Breakfast Club,” he said Brandy was “16 or 17” when they got involved, while also claiming he was young at the time. Then in 2021, he denied she was underage altogether, stating they dated when she was 18 and describing it as a mutual young love that simply ran its course.
Now, with “Phases” out, Brandy is rewriting the narrative on her own terms, making it clear she no longer accepts the version of events that minimized her experience.
