Iggy Azalea and Nick Young may have just split, but no one watching was blindsided by this breakup.
Nearly a year to the day the "Fancy" rapper accepted a 10-carat engagement ring from the basketball pro in June 2015, Azalea announced to the world that they were no longer a bride and groom-to-be. How does a woman go from her own bespoke wedding dress to telling fans she's rewriting her future without Young in it? Throw in a video of your fiancé secretly gossiping about an encounter with a 19-year-old woman while he was dating you and your relationship is bound to hit some bumpy road.
"Iggy and Nick haven't been the same since that video was leaked a few weeks ago. She tried to put it behind her, but she still did not trust him. She was questioning so many things about what he was doing since that was leaked," a source tells us.
"[Azalea's questioning] was driving Nick crazy," a second insider close to the athlete revealed to us. "The relationship just was not the same."
While Azalea later made public claims to fans that the pair was "good" and that they had not broken up despite the leaked footage, we now learned that the clip caused some permanent damage behind the scenes.
"This relationship is not repairable at this point because Iggy just can't trust Nick," the initial source continued. "Iggy is hurt and needs time before she gets involved with a guy again."
According to the source from Young's side, they really are over. "They can't predict the future but, as of now, it's done!" After nearly three years of dating, here's a look back on all of their steps toward this not-so-surprising split.
1. They postponed their wedding.
Before the infamous video recorded by teammate D'Angelo Russell leaked, Azalea explained to Ryan Seacrest that the wedding would have to wait until after 2016. "I'm planning my wedding, actually moved my wedding 'cause I have to tour so my wedding plans are changing," she said during the radio interview. "It was going to happen at the end of the year but now I have to go to work so we'll probably have to wait until the end of the next basketball season to do that. So that kind of is a bit sucky, but it's alright."
2. Young alluded to cheating in a leaked video.
In a clip seemingly taken without Young's knowledge, Russell is heard asking his friend about a 19-year-old he met at a club in the summer. He goes on to ask if he had ever "tried" with Amber Rose. Russell later told reporters he was "sick as possible" over the leak. "This just got in the wrong hands," he said during a press conference in late March. "It wasn't a prank. It wasn't something for everybody else to see. It was for my eyes, his eyes only. That was it."
3. Azalea threatened to chop off his junk.
After the video got out, the Grammy nominee explained there would be severe consequences if she found concrete proof of infidelity. "I'm not cool with it. Like you will have half a penis," she said during Tampa Bay's Wild 94.1 radio show. "One more video just one more thing and you will lose a quarter of your meat."
4. Azalea admitted she hadn't figured out whether she still wanted to marry Young.
During yet another radio interview, the star was completely candid while discussing her potential future with the Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard. "I don't know. I'm still figuring it all out. It's still fresh," she said on The Bert Show. "I think last year, the year that I had, has kind of taught me maybe it's best to just wait until it's like a little more past tense before you kind of speak about necessarily how you feel about something."
5. Azalea and Young celebrated their birthdays without each other.
Instead of having her beau by her side for her 26th birthday, Azalea headed off to paradise on a boat with her gal pals and a source confirmed to E! News that Young also went solo for his big day turning 31 years old.
6. Azalea got an interesting birthday card.
While they were separate for their birthday festivities, Young did make the effort in giving his lady a celebratory card. However, the message inside was a bit unorthodox for an engaged pair celebrating a special occasion. "I love you so much I hate you but I still love u—happy bday." Had the previous events not taken place, we could have dismissed the card as playful banter, but now, it seems all too foreboding—particularly with Azalea's response: "I love you so much I hate you too."
One week later, Young made the ultimate social media declaration: "Single."



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