Jennifer Lopez may be going through a highly publicized divorce from Ben Affleck, but based on a resurfaced interview that has since gone viral, it looks like the superstar’s mother had concerns about a different past romantic partner of J.Lo’s — Diddy.
On a 2015 episode of The Wendy Williams Show, Williams asked the “Jenny From The Block” singer if she would ever consider getting back together with Diddy (real name Sean Combs). Both born in 1969, Lopez and Combs — who has also been known as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, among other nicknames, over the years — dated from 1999 to 2001 after meeting on the set of Lopez’s “If You Had My Love” music video, per Us Weekly. Lopez later accused Diddy of cheating on her.
“I could always see you getting back together with Puffy, in a way,” Williams quipped. “Or, getting together permanently with Pitbull!”
Lopez laughed hard at the suggestion, while the audience sounded off their reactions. But it was the reaction of Jennifer’s mom, Guadalupe Rodríguez, who was sitting in the studio audience — that has gotten the internet’s attention in the wake of the hip-hop mogul’s major sex trafficking scandal.
As the camera cuts to Guadalupe in the 2015 clip, Jennifer’s mom appears to gesture and shake her head angrily, apparently mouthing “no” at the idea of her daughter reentering a relationship with the rapper.
In 2003, Lopez spoke to Vibe Magazine about her messy romance with Diddy. “It was the first time I was with someone who wasn’t faithful,” she told the outlet, per Entertainment Weekly. “I was in this relationship with Puff where I was totally crying, crazy, and going nuts, it really took my whole life in a tailspin.”
Diddy has been denied bail while he awaits trial due to the judge’s “very significant concerns” about his substance abuse and “what appears to be anger issues.”
The Grammy winner, who has pled not guilty to racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, cause or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution charges, faces a potential life imprisonment if convicted on all charges.
