Diddy as soon as nearly got here to blows with Will Smith after he and his spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, “made advances” on his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, in keeping with the Dangerous Boy mogul’s former bodyguard Gene Deal.
Deal was requested in regards to the alleged incident in an interview with The Artwork of Dialogue, the place he recalled Puff’s heated response after suspecting that the Males In Black star and his actress spouse have been making an attempt to lure J.Lo into the bed room.
“We have been at a birthday celebration that I believe Matt Damon was giving for Ben Affleck. It was just a bit gathering on the 4 Seasons,” Deal remembered. “Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Puff, Will Smith and Jada have been sitting on [one] aspect of the room.
“[Puff] stood up. And when he stood up, he walked and did his arms a sure type of method like [crossing them]. I am going over in the direction of him and he mentioned to me, ‘Yo, I believe Will and Jada are attempting to scoop up Jennifer. I need you to remain shut ’trigger I’ma snuff him.’”
Gene Deal laughed as he recalled considering to himself that Will Smith would almost certainly “beat the shit” out of Diddy, though he acknowledged that his former employer might “scrap.”
The ex-bodyguard additionally remembered strategically positioning himself far-off sufficient from Puff in order that if he have been to snuff Will, “I might transfer sluggish sufficient that Will might in all probability get two or three punches again in.”
“That shit was humorous,” he concluded with a chuckle. “He thought that Jada and Will have been approaching too sturdy to Jennifer, making advances.”
It’s unclear when the alleged incident occurred precisely, however Diddy and Jennifer Lopez dated between late 1999 and early 2001 after assembly on a music video set.
Regardless of as soon as apparently eager to punch Will Smith, Diddy reportedly performed the function of peacemaker final yr when the previous Contemporary Prince of Bel-Air star slapped Chris Rock on the Oscars for poking enjoyable at Jada Pinkett’s alopecia.
Web page Six reported on the time that Puff “spoke to each [Smith and Rock] individually” after the incident, which made front-page information across the globe.
Nonetheless, he denied experiences that he had advised a reporter at an Oscars afterparty that the pair had shortly squashed their beef.
“I by no means confirmed that they had reconciled,” Diddy clarified to TMZ. “I mentioned, ‘As brothers, they may work it out, and let’s transfer on with love.’”
Will Smith Lastly Responds To Current Jada Pinkett Smith Interviews
Gene Deal’s feedback come on the heels of assorted bombshell revelations about Will Smith and Jada Pinkett’s marriage. Throughout an interview with Right now earlier this month, Jada revealed that she and Can have been secretly separated since 2016, though they don’t seem to be technically divorced.
In a separate interview with PEOPLE, the 52-year-old actress denied that their marriage was an open relationship, regardless of her high-profile fling with R&B singer August Alsina.
“I believe the place that obtained complicated is that as time went on, there have been completely different levels in my marriage the place Will and I made a decision we weren’t collectively,” she mentioned. “We didn’t inform the general public, the place I used to be really excited about divorcing, separating.
“There’ve been a number of of these the place we’ve gone and lived our separate lives. So I believe inside that’s the place individuals would possibly’ve thought that, ‘Oh, they have to be having an open relationship.’”
