{"id":270443,"date":"2019-04-01T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1019625"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:33:00","slug":"did-issa-rae-just-address-her-rumored-engagement-to-louis-diame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/did-issa-rae-just-address-her-rumored-engagement-to-louis-diame\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Issa Rae Just Address Her Rumored Engagement to Louis Diame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.306429548564\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201931\/rs_634x1024-190401123608-634-Issa-Rae-Louis-Diame-engaged.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Isaa Rae, Louis Diame\" alt=\"Isaa Rae, Louis Diame\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Amanda Edwards\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.668555240793\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/issa_rae\">Issa Rae<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;has yet to confirm her engagement to&nbsp;longtime love&nbsp;<strong>Louis Diame<\/strong>, but that&#8217;s not stopping the world from speculating.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors&nbsp;about the <em>Insecure<\/em> actress&#8217; relationship status recently surfaced on Instagram Stories when she showed her support for a &#8220;cruelty-free makeup industry&#8221; with Covergirl. While posing for a selfie, fans couldn&#8217;t help but spot a gorgeous diamond ring on <em>that<\/em> finger. Adding fuel to the engagement rumors, Rae was spotted with&nbsp;a diamond on her ring finger on her new&nbsp;<em>Essence<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BvcHu5PnltC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cover<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While appearing on Monday&#8217;s episode of <em>The View<\/em>, Rae brushed off the speculation surrounding the cover, saying with a laugh, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a lot of rings on my finger. I wear jewelry, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>Over the weekend, Rae&#8217;s co-stars&nbsp;<strong>Jay Ellis<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Yvonne Orji<\/strong>&nbsp;appeared to&nbsp;confirm the engagement news while attending the 2019 NAACP Image Awards.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.197674418605\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.3488372093023\">\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very excited for her,&#8221; Orji shared with&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/issa-raes-insecure-co-stars-open-up-about-her-engagement-exclusive-122444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Entertainment Tonight<\/a><\/em>, with Ellis adding,&nbsp;&#8220;We all found out in different ways because we&#8217;re all on different text chains.&nbsp;We talk at different times, so we all found out at different times in different ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"45.0234375\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.78125\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Oh wow, I don&#8217;t want this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Issa Rae (@IssaRae) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IssaRae\/status\/1112762559499829250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>On Monday, Rae took to Twitter to seemingly&nbsp;address&nbsp;all of the speculation, writing, &#8220;Oh wow, I don&#8217;t want this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.042440318302\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019128\/rs_634x1128-190228114057-634-issa-rae-mv-22819.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Issa Rae\" alt=\"Issa Rae\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"8.8773841961853\">\n<p>And for the record, the A-list star went ringless at the 24th Annual Critics&#8217; Choice Awards in Santa Monica back in January further proving this is a new piece of bling.<\/p>\n<p>In recent interviews,&nbsp;Rae has tried her best to remain mum on her personal life. While appearing in the March 2018 issue of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/issa-rae-interview-vogue-march-2018-issue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Vogue<\/em><\/a>, the actress waved away the question when asked if she is dating.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-8\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.134724857685\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019013\/rs_634x1024-190113171111-634-issa-rae-critics-choice-awards-2019.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Issa Rae, 2019 Critics Choice Awards\" alt=\"Issa Rae, 2019 Critics Choice Awards\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Frazer Harrison\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"13.66265060241\">\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want any input,&#8221; she shared with the publication. &#8220;As a writer, you put everything on the table. I&#8217;ll take input on kids if I&#8217;m going to have kids. How do I not kill the kids? Work? Give me the input. Any other aspect of my life? Give me the input. But who I&#8217;m f&#8211;king? No, I don&#8217;t need input. I&#8217;m good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She reiterated that mindset in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/a19722071\/fresh-faces-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Marie Claire<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I get so much feedback about everything,&#8221; she shared. &#8220;The one thing I don&#8217;t need feedback on is who I&#8217;m sleeping with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-9\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.246411483254\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.7846889952153\">\n<p>But during&nbsp;a fun chat with <em>GQ<\/em> back in May 2018, the creator of <em>Insecure<\/em> was happy to share her dating advice for men. Spoiler alert: You have to keep it real.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best way to ask me out is be straight forward. I don&#8217;t want, &#8216;Hey do you want to go out for coffee&#8217; or &#8220;Hey do you want to go out for dinner&#8217; because people do that all the time [in this industry] so I need to clearly know what you mean,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uZMflF5AiMM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-10\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1019625\/did-issa-rae-just-address-her-rumored-engagement-to-louis-diame?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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