{"id":7114,"date":"2026-04-01T15:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/04\/brandy-wanya-morris-relationship-breaks-silence\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:19:14","slug":"brandy-wanya-morris-relationship-breaks-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/04\/brandy-wanya-morris-relationship-breaks-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandy Breaks Her Silence On Long-Rumored Wanya Morris Relationship, Says She Was \u2018Too Young To Recognize She Was Being Used\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brandy is being extremely vulnerable in her newly-released memoir, Phases<\/em>, and opening up about the rumors that she dated Wanya Morris when she was just 16, and he was 22.<\/p>\n

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She released her debut self-titled album, Brandy<\/em>, in 1994, when she was just 15 years old. The next year, she performed as the opening act for Boyz II Men\u2019s II World Tour, which is what first fueled speculation that she was dating Boyz II Men singer Wanya Morris.<\/p>\n

All these years later, the Moesha<\/em> star is opening up about that connection, claiming she was \u201ctoo young to recognize she was being used.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wanya Morris has denied rumors that he and Brandy began a relationship when the singer was a teen star for years, but Brandy writes in her memoir that her relationship with the Boyz II Men member started when she was 16 and he was 22.<\/p>\n

The singer writes that Morris became her \u201cmentor\u201d first, but at some point in their professional relationship, he began to call and check in on her regularly, offering advice as an \u201canchor\u201d and \u201cconfidant.\u201d They got a lot closer once she joined Boyz II Men on tour.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat had begun as admiration had transformed into something else,\u201d Brandy writes, per Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/em>. \u201cIt seems to me that he weaponized my admiration, shaped my friendship into dependence, my respect into desire. I felt swept up in a current I couldn\u2019t control.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and actress said that their relationship took a turn after they filmed the music video for their collaboration, \u201cBrokenhearted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe moved around each other like opposing magnets \u2014 as if actively trying to maintain distance even as we kept finding ourselves drawn into each other\u2019s orbit,\u201d she writes. \u201cThe attraction was subtle yet undeniable. It lived in the pauses between conversations, and it lingered in the charged atmosphere surrounding us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After that, their relationship quickly formed, and Brandy recalls being overwhelmed with the guilt of hiding it from her family and the public.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018My girlfriend is sixteen.\u2019 I don\u2019t remember when he first said it. But those four words started rolling off his tongue whenever we were alone,\u201d she writes of Morris, per EW<\/a>. <\/em>\u201cI couldn\u2019t tell if this refrain was meant to soothe his own conscience or temper the questions shimmering in my gaze. Perhaps it was his way of tethering himself to a boundary, even as he quietly edged past it. Or maybe it was simply a reminder to himself, a whisper to keep the illicit nature of our connection in view. Regardless, I was under the impression that we were madly in love \u2014 or at least what I believed love to be at sixteen. A grown man\u2019s version of love, designed to serve his needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Brandy also details her first time having sex with Morris, saying it \u201clacked the specialness I had painted in my mind, because it wasn\u2019t about me at all.\u201d She went on to write that the experience was tainted by \u201cthe influence of a man who seemed to know exactly how to make me question my own beliefs and boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd I hung in this strange balance,\u201d she continues. \u201cI was navigating that time in full view of the world, every move scrutinized, every choice dissected by people who didn\u2019t know my heart. Part of me wanted to retain some semblance of \u2018normalcy,\u2019 but also I knew full well that what was happening between me and him was wrong. And yet, my attitude was, \u2018This was special. This was real. People just can\u2019t understand.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brandy describes the sexual element of their relationship as Morris \u201cgetting what he wanted from someone too young to recognize she was being used,\u201d adding that she was \u201ctoo naive to realize that deep down inside he did not see me as special. I think he saw me as conquerable. As someone whose boundaries could be negotiated away. I was in over my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was young and inexperienced, and thought that following my heart meant following his lead, that what we shared transcended ordinary rules and limitations,\u201d she shares. Brandy also says that she had wanted to wait until marriage but \u201calso believed that having sex with him would cement our bond. Would prove I was mature enough for our relationship. Would make him happy. And so, I told myself I was ready. That this was my choice. But the truth is I felt like I had no choice. I felt like saying no meant losing him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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