A casual “hola” message to a music icon sparked what model Gracie Bon now calls a fleeting connection laced with luxury and letdown.
“Because I liked him as an artist and I sent him a message.”
She explained how, back in 2020, while still married, she reached out to Drake on Instagram simply because she admired his artistry.
“I said hello. Like this, in Spanish.”
His reply came in just two minutes, igniting conversations that evolved.
“And he literally answered me like two minutes later.”
“I mean, it was me, chubby, 300 pounds, without any surgery or anything.”
“I’m not going to say what he said, but… Like… I mean, we clicked.”
By 2021, after her divorce, their bond grew closer during Drake’s performance at Estéreo Picnic Festival in Colombia, where they crossed paths at an afterparty.
“When I got divorced, like in 2021, 2022.”
“And that’s when he asked me if I wanted to go and stuff.”
“I already had my tickets.”
“We went to a party. Nothing happened that time.”
“But after that, we kept talking.”
“And out of nowhere, I found out that he mentioned the song to me with Bad Bunny.”
“I thought it was great.”
“We kept talking. Everything else.”
What followed blended glamour with intimacy, Bon revealed.
She confirmed they became physically close, though she stressed it left her with mixed emotions.
“We are… Well, right now we don’t talk.”
“Because he did something really ugly to me.”
“But if it was Drake, it was beautiful.”
“Yes.”
“But it’s not something I’m proud of.”
“No, because that’s just anyone.”
“I mean, it’s not something…”
“It’s the only one in the world.”
“I can’t be with Drake if I don’t feel like Drake.”
“He’s a very good person, but as a man, it’s like… There were some things like that.”
“No, he’s beautiful.”
Bon described thoughtful gestures, like Drake arranging a private flight from Panama to join him, and personal introductions to his mother and young son, Adonis.
“We were… I mean, he even sent me a plane to Panama to pick me up.”
“That was like…”
“I know his mom, his son.”
“I mean, we had a good friendship.”
“He was very trusting and everything.”
These moments built a sense of trust, she added, even as she played his tracks like “Wow” for him during their time together.
Their story took a lyrical turn in 2023 when Drake name-dropped her in his collaboration with Bad Bunny on the track Gently, praising her curves in a line that thrilled her at first.
Yet Bon felt the shine fade as the relationship revealed its limits.
She pointed out a lack of genuine interest in her own ambitions, from modeling to her advocacy work around lipedema, the chronic condition she lives with that causes painful fat buildup in the legs and arms.
The breaking point arrived last summer at Wireless Festival in London, tied to a live stream hosted by streamer Adin Ross.
“But the problem was that after that, there was a stream with a gringo named Aiden Rose.”
“So he invited everyone who was there to go to a concert in England and he sent us all a plane.”
Bon joined a group flown in for the event, but she claims Drake sidelined her from the exclusive parties, leaving her isolated in his hotel for days.
“And when I got there with my friend, they basically blacklisted me from all the parties.”
“He said they wouldn’t let me go to any of the parties.”
“I don’t know why.”
“I mean, I always tried not to be accessible.”
“That’s true.”
“I always tried not to be so…”
“Yes, because you were already so gifted.”
“So when we were there, I remember that we wanted to go to the party after the show.”
“And he said, no, it’s already full and stuff like that.”
“Then on the last day, like the fifth day, there were five days that I was in Europe without doing anything.”
“He put me in the same hotel as him, he basically locked me up.”
On the final night, she slipped into a Nocta brand gathering uninvited. She witnessed scenes that shattered her view of him, including him surrounded by other women in ways she found deeply disappointing.
“And on the fifth day, some friends who are also artists invited us to a party that I didn’t even know who it was.”
“And it was Nocta’s. It was his.”
“And when I got there, I mean, I didn’t sign an NDA or anything,”
“but I got there, I saw everything.”
“I mean, I was like, this is not the person I admired, this is not the person I talked to.”
“So everything died there.”
“So it was a straight party, everyone gets together with everyone.”
“No, they don’t get together with everyone, but…”
“What’s wrong?”
“But… There were things that I was like,”
“I see why he didn’t want me to go. I see why he didn’t want me to be there.”
“So everything died for me, I blocked him.”
“No, I don’t want to know anything about him.”
“We had that conversation and he didn’t…”
“He didn’t want to tell me either.”
“No, but the fact that I am someone you esteem, that you, I mean, because if you introduce me to your son, to your mom, you have given me things to trust.”
“I saw him with other women.”
“He filled him with women.”
“I saw him with other women. He filled him with women.”
“That’s it.”
“Yes, but not in the way you imagine.”
“No, no, no. And how?”
“Worse.”
“No, I don’t want to say anything.”
“There was a man, a woman.”
“No, they were women.”
“Yes, you can call them women.”
“No, they weren’t trans.”
“Oh my God. This thing is ugly.”
“It’s ugly.”
“But okay, anyway, I mean, I already talk about what happened.”
No nondisclosure agreements bound her silence, she emphasized, allowing this unfiltered reflection.
Drake quickly pushed back against the narrative, hopping into Ross’s chat to label the claims “big cap,” slang for outright fabrication, and calling the blacklisting accusation absurd.
Ross himself dismissed Bon’s account on stream, suggesting frustration over unmet expectations fueled the tell-all.
“That taught me a lot, that really, a man, even if he is an artist, even if he is famous, honestly, if the man doesn’t care about you, if he doesn’t care how you feel, that’s not it.”
“I mean, I’m not going to be like, because you are you, if you do what you want, step on me. No.”
“It’s not like that.”
“But you know, that’s something very true.”
“I mean, there is a man who can give you money, he can give you luxury, comfort, but something he can’t give you is true love, or true attention, or true concern.”
“And that’s something I felt about him, like I felt that it was, everything was like him, him, him.”
“But there was never an interest in my projects, like, you understand me, it’s like what I wanted for myself.”
“So, maybe that’s why friendship didn’t work either.”
In the broader context of celebrity entanglements, Bon’s experience highlights a familiar tension: the magnetic pull of stardom often collides with the fundamental need for mutual respect.
As someone who has built a platform on self-acceptance—evident in her Instagram posts blending vulnerability with empowerment—her willingness to air these regrets serves as a reminder that true connections transcend private jets and shout-outs.
It invites us to question how power dynamics in high-profile romances can amplify isolation, even amid the spotlight.
For Bon, this chapter seems to reinforce her focus on authentic growth, turning personal pain into a call for healthier boundaries in both love and fame.
