Janine Rubenstein related in her post for People that Keke Palmer had an age-gap affair when she was a teen Nickelodeon star: “Keke Palmer on ‘Inappropriate’ Relationship with Older Man While Filming Nickelodeon Show: ‘Nothing Makes It Right’ (Exclusive)” (October 30, 2024)
Rubenstein’s subtitle related that the older man was Keke’s first love: “The former child star and award-winning actress opens up to PEOPLE about her first love and why she now knows the relationship was deeply problematic”
In the piece, Keke shared that when she was 15, her first love was 20, but that if, at the time, she thought the relationship was inappropriate, she would not have gotten romantically involved.
Palmer fell in love for the first time amid her rise to fame as the star of Nickelodeon's hit sitcom True Jackson VPShe began dating an older man. "I was 15, he was 20," Palmer says of the partner she doesn't name. “I was trying to balance between being really young, but also feeling quite mature. If I thought it was inappropriate, then I wouldn't have done it."
However, in hindsight, Keke implied that her first love should have been unrequited.
Adds Palmer, "Obviously I shouldn’t have been 15 dating no 20-year-old," she says, "but in my mind it was like ‘I got a full-time job. . . . Can’t nobody understand me but a grown man.’ [...]"
Interestingly, the age-gap relationship lasted five years.
Rhetorical question: Why did Keke wait all these years to talk about her five-year age-gap relationship? Answer: To boost sales of her book Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative.
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