Drake's camp has yet to respond substantively, and the narrative emerging from his side likely frames this as a regrettable miscommunication between two people who clearly care about each other. Brooks herself acknowledged on the podcast that Drake is 'so talented' with 'a great heart,' suggesting she's not looking for war—just closure.
Insiders close to the situation say the power imbalance was glaring—a 21-year-old up-and-coming personality navigating a situationship with one of hip-hop's most powerful figures. The alleged threat about having people 'fold her up' reportedly sent her into hiding, and sources say she wasn't being dramatic; she genuinely feared for her safety in ways that aren't uncommon when you're on the wrong side of someone with that much influence.
Brooks appeared on Bunnie Xo's 'Dumb Blonde' podcast on Sunday, June 28, 2026. She alleged Drake sent her a message stating he was going to 'have bitches fold me up verbatim.' Brooks also claimed she didn't leave her house for three months following the breakup and was living in Los Angeles at ages 21-22 when these messages allegedly occurred.
This isn't just another celebrity he-said-she-said—it's a story about what happens when someone with that much power decides you're a problem. Brooks is handling this with surprising grace publicly, but make no mistake: this is the kind of allegation that lingers in this industry long after the headlines fade.
Suede Brooks is finally pulling back the curtain on one of Hollywood's most whispered-about situationships, and it's uglier than anyone expected. The 25-year-old Calabasas Confidential star appeared on Bunnie Xo's "Dumb Blonde" podcast Sunday, June 28, and alleged that Drake sent her threatening messages in the aftermath of their split—a breakup she says left her so frightened for her safety that she barely left her house for three months. 'When we did end things, it was very … I was very scared for my safety,' Brooks claimed during the interview.
'And for a lot of things, for a long time living in LA.' She was just 21 or 22 years old at the time. According to Brooks, the trouble started with what she describes as a massive miscommunication. Drake apparently believed she had been talking negatively about him behind his back in Los Angeles—something she insists never happened. '[I was] getting text messages that he's gonna have bitches fold me up verbatim, that's what he said,' Brooks alleged.
'I was like, for what? It was all miscommunication.' She claims the threatening messages arrived after their romance—which she describes as an 'on and off' situation that lasted 'a few months'—crumbled into dust. The timeline of this relationship traces back to July 2022, when Brooks and Drake were first romantically linked during a trip to Saint-Tropez.
Brooks recounted how the two met under circumstances she says have been mischaracterized in the press. 'I was staying on my friend's boat, and her father had hired Drake to come to the boat and throw a party,' she explained. 'He came with his friends … I was like, "Oh, this is so cool that he's coming on our boat." But I feel like the narrative that was spun was, like, I kind of stepped onto his territory.' Brooks insists the reality was quite different: Drake was hired for their event, not the other way around.
She would go on to visit him in Toronto before ultimately walking away from the situationship because, as she put it, 'I'm tired of this.' Despite everything she's alleging happened post-breakup, Brooks struck a surprisingly diplomatic tone when discussing Drake's character today. 'I know I've grown a lot from it, and I know he's grown a lot from it,' she said. 'He is so talented, I know he has a great heart.
I wish him nothing but the best in his future.' She hasn't spoken to him 'in a minute'—a boundary she's clearly comfortable maintaining regardless of his alleged past behavior. Us Weekly has reached out to Drake's spokesperson for comment. What makes this story particularly chilling isn't just the content of the allegedly threatening messages—it's the age and relative vulnerability of the person receiving them.
Brooks was barely old enough to drink when she says these texts landed in her phone, coming from one of the most influential figures in music with what she describes as 'so much power and can do the unimaginable within the snap of a finger.' Whether or not you believe every detail of her account—and Drake's team hasn't confirmed anything—this is exactly the kind of story that gets whispered about but rarely gets told on record. Until now.
