"Have been sober for 9 months" - Deiondra Sanders' fiance Jacquees gets real about changes he made to turn his life around before engagement

Colorado coach Deion Sander's daughter Deiondra and her fiancee Jacquees have been forthcoming about their journey as new parents on various social media posts. The couple was engaged in July and welcomed their first child, Baby Que, in August on the same day as Coach Prime's birthday.

On Tuesday, Jacquees appeared on "Super Star TV Online" and discussed the changes he underwent before getting engaged to Deiondra.

"On my break, I was really having to get myself together personally," Jacquees said. "You know I've been sober for nine months, no liquor, you feel me? So I've been doing all that, so, that time period I was just getting myself together. You know I recently got engaged, so next year I'm gonna get married." (3:48)

Jacquees further said Deiondra Sanders' pregnancy was the inspiration behind the name of his newest album, "Baby Making."

"Me having a baby. And Birdman (musician) was telling me like 'You need to make a project called baby making.' He was like, 'Bro you're getting ready to have a baby and this is your life right now,'

People wanna hear about what you got going on, this is what you need to be talking about. So this is the perfect title for me to do and it's the perfect season since I'm gonna become a new father and we just ran with it. I immediately got in the studio and started making new records like baby-making music," Jacquees said.

How Deiondra Sanders 'saved' Jacquees

Jacquees popped the question to Deiondra Sanders in July, months after the couple announced the impending birth of their son. The R&B musician posted a heartfelt message on Instagram after the engagement detailing how Deiondra saved his life from alcoholism.

“A lot of people don’t know that you really saved my life… I was an alcoholic for years… I didn’t realize it… I was fighting it, a hard battle but I always knew I could do it if I wanted to but I needed a little more motivation,” he wrote. "When you came to ATL Station and got me from the bar from being there for 12 hours and I’m all cut up and hands bleeding, arms skint up and just being an a*****e.

You jumped out of that car on Peachtree and I told myself I don’t ever wanna see this again. So on March 3, 2024, I quit drinking. I knew you believed in me and nobody else couldn’t fix me I’ve never missed a doctor’s appointment no matter what! And I’ll try my best to remain that way because you having some more babies lol.”

Deiondra Sanders and Jacquees have been open about the R&B musician's struggle with alcoholism and the role Coach Prime's daughter played in helping him deal with it.