Chance The Rapper and Kirsten Corley Announce Divorce
Chance The Rapper and Kirsten Corley are getting a divorce. The two announced in a joint statement on Wednesday (April 3).
“After a period of separation, the two of us have arrived at the decision to part ways. We came to this decision amicably and with gratitude for the same time we spent together. God has blessed us with two beautiful daughters who we will continue to raise together,” the statement read on their Instagram.
The former couple got married in 2019 and have two daughters — 7-year-old Kensli and 4-year-old Marli. The couple met when they were nine years old and have been dating as adults since 2013.
Chance The Rapper and Kirsten Corley Go Back And Forth On The Internet Over Carnival Video
Prior to the announcement on social media, the rapper got some backlash after a video of him dancing at Carnival — a Caribbean festival — went viral. Corley posted messages that were believed to be about how she felt about the photo of a woman grinding on her husband.
“Most people don’t grow up. It’s too d— difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it,” Corley said in a since-deleted repost from icon Maya Angelou.
“They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really. They get older.”
She continues, “But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed.”
In her caption of the poem, she added, “I hope one day, we all choose to grow up.”
In response, the Chicago rapper posted a clip of Bill Burr from his 2019 Netflix stand-up special Paper Tiger. The comedian talks about how much he loves his wife, who, like Chance, also has to undergo public scrutiny of his relationship.
“I love my wife to death. I love everything about being f—— married, but I’ll tell you this right now, we do fight a lot. We do argue all the time,” Burr says. “If I’ve learnt anything in five years of being married is we’re always working on me. Evidently, my wife is this completed work under museum glass that is to be admired and studied” he said in the since-deleted clip.
