Talking to Diane Sawyer in 2002, the now 55-year-old singer and actor mirrored on her time with the music mogul by saying: “It simply wasn’t relationship for me. I needed to be taught to care about myself just a little bit extra and put up sure boundaries.”
Lopez, who dated Combs, 55, from 1999 to 2001, has discovered herself the most recent A-lister to be pulled into his trial orbit as he faces a number of lawsuits alleging sexual assault, violence and coercion.
Whereas Lopez isn’t concerned within the authorized proceedings, a resurfaced Primetime interview from over twenty years in the past has gone viral within the wake of mounting claims in opposition to Combs — together with disturbing footage and admissions in latest court docket filings.
Within the 2002 interview, Sawyer, 79, then requested the singer if her youthful self was afraid, to which J-Lo responded: “Um, no, I don’t suppose she was afraid, I simply suppose that I, at the moment was uh, cared very deeply for Sean, and you recognize we simply… did not have the identical sort of beliefs about life and household and stuff like that.
“It simply wasn’t relationship for me. It did not have a lot to do with him because it needed to do with me on the time.”