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Followers have lengthy puzzled whether or not Leah Remini and Jennifer Lopez are nonetheless shut — and it appears like Michelle Visage has solutions.
The RuPaul’s Drag Race choose, 55, mentioned her personal friendship with Remini, 53, throughout a Wednesday, September 27, look on Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang’s “Las Culturistas” podcast. As Rogers, 33, gushed about his love for Remini and Lopez’s 2018 collaboration Second Act, Yang, 32, requested, “[Leah] and J. Lo are finest buds, proper?”
As Rogers continued speaking in regards to the film, Visage replied, “No remark.” Yang, in the meantime, burst into laughter.
Remini and Lopez, 54, met in 2004 at a purple carpet occasion. “It was a kind of immediate chemistry issues, the place you simply really feel like, ‘I like this individual. I like being round this individual. This individual makes me chortle,’” Lopez gushed to Leisure Tonight in 2018. “She’s cool, and we even have very related upbringings. That’s why we work properly collectively.”
Extra just lately, nevertheless, some followers have puzzled whether or not the duo have grown aside. When Lopez exchanged vows with Ben Affleck for the second time in August 2022, Remini wasn’t current on the ceremony as a result of she was taking her daughter, Sofia, to varsity. (Remini shares Sofia, 19, with husband Angelo Pagán, whom she wed in 2003.)
Remini additional raised eyebrows in January when she attended Marc Anthony’s wedding ceremony to Nadia Ferreira. Anthony, 55, was married to Lopez from 2004 to 2014. The previous couple share twins Max and Emme, 15.
Neither Lopez nor Remini have commented about the place they stand now, however Remini has mentioned she doesn’t all the time love fielding questions on Lopez. “Not as a result of I don’t love speaking about my buddy, however I really feel a variety of instances it’s for gossip functions,” Remini mentioned throughout a February 2021 interview on the In the present day present. “Particularly if I’m making an attempt to speak about one thing that’s necessary, like our podcast, or exposing the abuses that we’re speaking about in Scientology and the victims of Scientology and any individual asks me about Jennifer’s wedding ceremony. I simply discover it totally annoying.”
Visage, for her half, has been mates with Remini for years. Earlier than Remini left Scientology in 2013, she received Visage into the faith as properly. Throughout her “Las Culturistas” interview, Visage mentioned she left the church after studying extra about their beliefs.
“It was time to make a dedication or get out,” Visage mentioned. “I used to be like, ‘One thing doesn’t really feel proper.’”
After she left the group, representatives allegedly known as her “for months” — and Remini, an outspoken critic of the church, wasn’t stunned. “I informed Leah, and Leah’s like, ‘I get it, I get it.’ And I’m like, ‘How are you going to do it?’” Visage recalled earlier than praising Remini for her Scientology-focused memoir and docuseries. “She’s solely talking her reality and letting folks converse their reality. She’s making an attempt to assist, and that’s what, satirically, Scientology’s speculated to do.”
The church has lengthy denied Remini’s claims about Scientology, calling her an “anti–free speech bigot” in August after she filed a lawsuit in opposition to the group. “The Church will not be intimidated by Remini’s newest act of blatant harassment and try to forestall truthful free speech,” the church mentioned in a press release on the time. “If Remini doesn’t imagine in free speech, then she ought to take into account emigrating to Russia.”
