Key Takeaways:

• Benzino reveals he solely sees his granddaughter Miyoco via weblog posts, not in particular person.
• He displays on his estranged relationship with Coi Leray and expresses a want to reconnect.
• Coi Leray has publicly criticized her father up to now, highlighting their ongoing pressure.

Benzino needs his relationship with Coi Leray might “go back to being normal again.” On Tuesday (Nov. 25), the rapper and TV persona received emotional whereas discussing the place issues stand along with his daughter, and even perhaps extra painfully, how he hasn’t seen his grandchild for the reason that “Players” artist gave start in June.

“I know for a fact that anything I did was out of love — or anything that I might not have [done] right was just me not knowing,” Benzino mentioned of their rift. “So, I didn’t do anything on purpose to hurt anybody. I know that’s no excuse.” The Boston native then admitted he was “fighting back” tears as he spoke.

“It’s just a touchy situation because she just had a baby, and I haven’t seen her,” he continued, referring to Leray’s daughter, Miyoco. “I get the pictures once they come out on The Shade Room or the blogs, like everybody else. I just wish it would stop [and] just go back to being normal again.”

Leray and Benzino’s relationship has gone via loads of ups and downs — largely downs — over the previous few years. Last May, she revealed they hadn’t spoken “music/a/jaelaniturnerwilliams/coi-leray-hasnt-spoken-father-year”>in over a year” after he mentioned their relationship in a number of interviews.

“I want everybody to know I want nothing to do with anything my father has going on,” she wrote in a since-deleted tweet. In one other put up, she mentioned, “Sharing the same DNA and blood doesn’t make us family.” Before that, Leray accused Benzino of making an attempt to show her into his “clout kid.”

On a lighter word, Leray welcomed her infant over the summer season. Although she and Miyoco’s father, Trippie Redd, parted methods earlier than her start, the Trendsetter creator seems to be completely happy in her new relationship.

Earlier this month, Leray shared simply how “in love” she is with Justin Laboy. She additionally referred to as him the “most amazing man on earth” in a TikTok video set to Megan Thee Stallion’s “LOVER GIRL.”