- Raven-Symoné said that she makes everyone she dates sign non-disclosure agreements.
- Raven said that she does this to protect herself as a Hollywood star in the age of social media.
Raven-Symoné said that she has made everyone she has dated sign a non-disclosure agreement to protect her private life.
Last week, the Disney star spoke to Howie Mandel and his daughter Jackelyn Shultz on the "Howie Mandel Does Stuff" podcast about her relationship with Miranda Pearman-Maday, whom she married in 2020.
During the discussion, Raven brought up how she makes all of her partners sign an NDA.
"It took me a while to wrap my head around it because it's just very impersonal, but someone in our position needs to do that," the 37-year-old actor said. "Welcome to being a celebrity in Hollywood nowadays. Nowadays, hashtags, real life, they change the dynamic of having an intimate relationship with somebody."
When asked when exactly she gets them to sign the paperwork, Raven said that she has them on her nightstand and normally gets her partners to sign a form "right before naughty time comes," or the day before.
Raven added that she also supplies consent forms detailing what each person is comfortable with in the relationship.
Raven explained that she was pressured by her mother to get her wife, Miranda, to sign an NDA two months into their relationship.
"Her moment was crazy. We were in New York. We were in this outdoor French-type of restaurant and my mom had been bugging me," said Raven.
"She was like, 'You got to get it signed.' I'm like, 'She's from the industry.' I was like, 'Okay, fine,' and I was really reluctant because I knew something was different about Miranda."
Raven continued: "So I set her down. I was like, 'I have to ask you something. Will you sign this paper?' She was like, 'No.' And I was like, 'Please because just make this stress go away for me. Please.' She's like, 'I don't understand,' because she knew that we had something different. She did it for me because she knew that I was being pushed elsewhere and she understood."
Raven said that making Miranda sign the paperwork took away "the genuineness of it all" but "we understood that we live in Hollywood."
The "That's So Raven" star also said that she has "paperwork in place" when asked if she and Miranda signed a prenup before their wedding in 2020.