Leah Remini Addresses Rumors of a Rift with Jennifer Lopez

“Typically you do not speak to individuals on daily basis such as you used to, however that does not imply the love is misplaced. Friendships ebb and move. That does not imply we’re at odds,” she shared in a brand new interview with US Weekly.

J.Lo and Remini met at a pink carpet occasion again in 2004, after Lopez’s then-husband Marc Anthony launched them to at least one one other. Their friendship strengthened all through the years to the purpose the place Lopez even requested Remini to be the godparent to her and Anthony’s twins, Max and Emme, in 2008.

In 2017, the 2 starred within the film Second Act taking part in greatest buddies within the movie — however, Remini, 54, was MIA when J.Lo tied the knot with Ben Affleck in 2022. She was, nonetheless, noticed at Marc Anthony’s wedding ceremony to Nadia Ferreira in 2023. That is the place the feud rumors began to choose up steam.

Sources instructed TMZ on the time that the actress wasn’t capable of attend Lopez’s wedding ceremony as a result of she was serving to her daughter, Sofia, prepare to move off to varsity. Web page Six, in the meantime, claimed Remini wasn’t even invited to Lopez and Affleck’s wedding ceremony as a result of she wasn’t supportive of the connection.

In her new interview, Remini claimed that “proper after” her divorce from her ex Angelo Pagán final 12 months, “we would textual content one another loving messages of help.”

“I cherish my friendships and never all people is supposed to be in your life in the best way that they have been,” she additionally instructed the outlet. “If you develop out of that particular person that you simply have been, that does not imply that you’re at odds with them.”

“I’ve many buddies that I do not speak to on daily basis. That does not imply we’re at odds,” she insisted. “It is simply that I am at a unique place and so are they.”