LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 02: Ashanti attends VH1's Annual "Dear Mama: A Love Letter To Mom" at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on May 02, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images)
<div dir="auto">Ashanti exclusively talked to<em> The Shade Room </em>about her <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/exclusive-clip-ashanti-ages-backwards-in-falling-for-you-visual/">new single </a>‘Falling For you. She also shared the inspiration behind the track, exes sending her messages, her new book&#8211; &#8216;My Name Is Story: An Empowering First Day Of School Book For Kids&#8217;&#8211; and more.</div>
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<div dir="auto">The R&;B Princess recently released a new single, &#8216;Falling For You,&#8217; and it is about a real situation.</div>
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<div dir="auto">It&#8217;s definitely about a real situation. It&#8217;s crazy&#8230;the timing of it&#8211;it was a lot going on. You know sometimes art imitates life and life imitates art. So, it was from a very sincere, genuine, and authentic place.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Ashanti also dished on her &#8220;complicated&#8221; relationship status and thoughts around giving exes another chance.</div>
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<div dir="auto">As far as giving someone another chance, no one is perfect&#8230;I&#8217;m not perfect. It depends on where your mistake came from and what it is. When you make a mistake, what was the intent? Was the intent to hurt somebody or be greedy? I have to genuinely believe that you made an honest mistake and your intent wasn&#8217;t to hurt me.</div>
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<div dir="auto">We all the know the 42-year-old is always posting pics on IG showing that bawdy, and when asked, she shared the craziest thing an ex has texted her after seeing an IG emoji.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Oh, gosh! Ummm&#8230;what&#8217;s that little emoji? Mad eggplant emojis&#8230;That is one of the craziest things that an ex has texted me after seeing an IG pic.</div>
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<div dir="auto">As far as what&#8217;s next for Ashanti, the jet setter stated that her first self-titled album is currently in process of being re-recorded and we can expect it in 2023.</div>
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