Brandon Ingram Says GloRilla Lit Him Up After Viral Comment
brandon ingram said GloRilla lit him up after he joked that she gets on his nerves enough to make him want to go to sleep. The Toronto Raptors star made the comment while preparing for a game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, then backed off it once a female reporter asked how she reacted.
Ingram had first said, “Just try to go to bed extra early today,” before adding, “My girl is around, so she’ll get on my nerves enough to where I just wanna go to sleep.” He later said, “Oh she lit me up. I wont make that comment…”
Ingram’s game-day routine
The exchange landed in the middle of an afternoon-game routine he said usually starts with a reset to his sleep schedule. Ingram said he has to adjust because he typically likes to take game-day afternoon naps, so an early bedtime became part of the plan.
The comments came with the Raptors tied 2-2 in a first-round playoff matchup against Cleveland. That backdrop put a private relationship moment in the middle of a series setting, and it helped explain why a throwaway line about sleep quickly drew attention.
GloRilla had already signaled that she preferred to keep the relationship out of public view. In December, she said, “I’m not going to speak too much about our relationship because I kind of like our privacy.” She added, “We don’t really be too much in public.”
GloRilla and Brandon
The relationship still surfaced in public in other ways. The couple celebrated GloRilla’s 26th birthday in Mexico together, and later she referred to Ingram by his government name in the song “GOMF,” rapping, “Told Brandon I’ma have his son next time he leave it in.”
That is the friction in the story: the pair has talked about privacy, but the comments, the birthday trip and the lyric turned the relationship into public conversation anyway. Ingram’s brief apology-style retreat after the reporter’s question fit the same pattern — the remark was out there, and so was the reaction.
For now, the public part of the story is simple. Ingram made the joke, GloRilla responded hard enough for him to say she “lit” him up, and the Raptors forward was left trying to keep the next answer shorter than the first.
