Jennifer Lopez allegedly wished to create the phantasm that she and her former co-star Ryan Guzman have been greater than pals to advertise their 2015 movie, The Boy Subsequent Door, his ex Melanie Iglesias claims.
“She made my ex, oh my God, fake that he was single to advertise the film,” the Maxim mannequin alleged in a latest episode of the No Chaser podcast.
“The publicists, each of them, known as me … in order that they have been at afterparties collectively, like, holding arms and stuff to advertise this.”
Though Iglesias, 36, didn’t title Guzman, additionally 36, she dated and walked crimson carpets with the Texas-born actor on the similar time that he was doing press junkets with Lopez, now 54, for his or her film.
Within the thriller romance, Guzman performed the If You Had My Love singer’s much-younger love curiosity.
Web page Six reported forward of the film’s launch in January 2015 that the co-stars had been noticed cosying as much as each other at a Golden Globes afterparty — simply as Iglesias stated was a part of the plan.
“At one level, Ryan moved again on the sofa after which he put his arm round Jennifer,” an insider claimed on the time, including, “In addition they left collectively.”
Reflecting on the scenario, Iglesias added on the podcast, “It was simply, like, that sucks,” earlier than recalling when Lopez even pretended she didn’t know whether or not Guzman had a girlfriend in actual life when requested about it on The Ellen DeGeneres Present.
In a clip of the phase in query from the now-defunct speak present, Ellen DeGeneres asks the I’m Actual singer whether or not there was “something occurring” between her and the hunky actor, to which she says “no.”
Nevertheless, when pushed additional about whether or not Guzman had a girlfriend on the time, Lopez responds, “I believe he would possibly? I’m unsure. I do know he did. … I’m not in his enterprise like that.”
DeGeneres, now 66, then quips, “Not but,” to which the Selena star cheekily provides, “You by no means know.”
“We’ve met,” Iglesias identified on No Chaser, noting why Lopez ought to have confirmed Guzman was really a taken man.
“We friggin’ met. What do you imply you don’t know if he had a girlfriend? We met. You squeezed the s**t out of my hand. I’m nonetheless black and blue.”
The Man Code alum additional revealed that she was dissatisfied when Guzman first launched her to Lopez at an awards present as a result of it appeared the actress had been attempting to intimidate her.
“I at all times felt she was somebody to aspire in the direction of,” Iglesias, who like Lopez is a Puerto Rican-American from New York Metropolis, defined. “She was somebody who something she wished to perform she did.
“She met me, and he or she regarded me up and down, and he or she gave me the toughest, firmest handshake on the earth. I used to be like, ‘Ow! I’ll have my hand again, Jesus.’”
Iglesias stated she then thought to herself after the uncomfortable assembly, “That’s unhappy since you’re somebody I like, like, it shouldn’t be like that.”
Regardless of Lopez leaving a nasty style in her mouth, the ex-MTV character agreed to play together with the singer’s alleged PR relationship together with her then-boyfriend — till he began coming house late.
“I used to be OK with that till it wasn’t OK … till, , coming house at 2 within the morning, I don’t know,” Iglesias stated.
The aspiring comedian, whose romance with Guzman ended just a few months after The Boy Subsequent Door was launched, then added, “I wouldn’t try this.”
Iglesias concluded, “I additionally really feel like, the place’s your religion within the film? You realize what I imply? Why do it’s a must to act such as you’re with everybody that you simply’re in a film with. … I don’t get it.”
Web page Six has reached out to reps for each Lopez and Guzman however didn’t instantly hear again. Neither Guzman nor Lopez have admitted to having a relationship throughout this time.
This isn’t the primary time, nevertheless, that there have been suspicions about Lopez’s relationship standing across the time The Boy Subsequent Door got here out.
A March 2015 report speculated whether or not the Let’s Get Loud singer had really known as it quits together with her then-boyfriend Casper Good as she had acknowledged within the press.
Sources instructed TMZ on the time that producers wished Lopez and Good, 37, to fake to not be collectively to be free to advertise their particular person tasks.
Nevertheless, the jig was up when the duo have been seen spending time collectively at quite a few occasions, together with a dinner following a GQ journal occasion.
Lopez, who’s now married to Ben Affleck, has been not too long ago been known as out for a collection of controversies, together with her alleged lack of allegiance to the Bronx, which has seemingly contributed to poor ticket gross sales for her rebranded “This Is Me: Stay | The Best Hits” tour.
This text initially appeared in Web page Six and was reproduced with permission.
