Jennifer Lopez says that Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri apologized to her before they filmed their “Saturday Night Live” episode.
The musician spoke to Variety for the latest cover story, and noted that while serving as a musical guest to promote her upcoming album “This Is Me… Now” she encountered a tearful Edebiri in her dressing room before the show.
In the week leading up to the episode, a 2020 episode of the “Scam Goddess” podcast resurfaced on social media as it featured Edebiri speaking critically of Lopez.
Responding to host Laci Mosley’s claim that that Lopez’s “whole career is one long scam,” Edebiri responded at the time: “Well, that’s the thing — she thinks she’s on multiple tracks, but it’s not her. I think she thinks that she’s still good, even though she’s not singing for most of these songs…A lot of the write-ups of the songs will be like, ‘J.Lo didn’t have time to make it to the studio.’ Like, ‘J.Lo was busy.’ Doing what? Not singing, obviously.”
Lopez mentioned to Variety that the actress broke down in tears apologizing to her in the SNL dressing room.
“She was mortified and very sweet,” Lopez said about Edebiri. ”She came to my dressing room and apologized with tears in her eyes, saying how terrible it was that she had said those things. She felt really badly and loved my performance because we had just done my soundcheck and she actually got to hear me perform. She was just like, ‘I’m so fucking sorry, it was so awful of me.’”
“It’s funny,” Lopez added. “I’ve heard similar things said about me throughout my career, so it really didn’t affect me.”
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Edebiri addressed the controversy during the SNL episode and appeared in a game show where Kenan Thompson forced contestants to reckon with their rude social media comments.
At one point during the sketch, Edebiri’s character panics and says: “OK. We get it. It’s wrong to leave mean comments, or post comments just for clout, or run your mouth on a podcast, and you don’t consider the impact because you’re 24 and stupid. But I think I speak for everyone when I say from now on, we’re going to be a lot more thoughtful about what we post online.”
