Jenny from the block’s best bud.
Jennifer Lopez has been friends with Leah Remini since meeting the “Kings of Queens” star in 2004 — but their friendship has had its fair share of ups and downs.
After years spent gushing over each other, Remini made headlines for missing Lopez’s 2022 wedding to Ben Affleck.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” judge Michelle Visage, who is also close with Remini, further set tongues wagging when she replied, “No comment” to a question about the actress’s friendship status the following year.
However, a source told in 2024 that Remini and Lopez had reconciled amid reports of the Grammy nominee’s looming divorce from Affleck.
Read more about the duo’s rocky relationship below.
2004
When Remini met Lopez at a 2004 red carpet premiere, she was “hoping [the singer] was gonna be ugly in real life,” she told “Entertainment Tonight” in 2018. “I was like, ‘She could be dumb!’ I wanted to find something , and I didn’t.”
Instead, Remini came to appreciate her pal’s sense of humor, saying she could “bust [Lopez’s] balls.”
In the same interview, J.Lo recalled their “instant chemistry,” which she credited to their “very similar upbringings.”
2008
Remini and her husband, Angelo Pagán, spoke to People about Lopez’s twins, Max and Emme, after their February 2008 arrival.
“We’re asking for an audition for godparent roles,” the “Kevin Can Wait” star joked at the time.
Her partner added, “Not sure whether it entails that we have to sing, dance, recite a monologue, but we’re ready!”
2015
After Remini publicly exited the Church of Scientology in 2013, she gushed to People about Lopez’s reaction to her…
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