Jennifer Lopez Felt Uncomfortable When Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs Told Her He Loved Her: ‘I Was Like, What?’

Jennifer Lopez and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs had a legendary relationship. The two met on the set of Lopez’s 1999 music video for “If You Had My Love” and hit it off immediately. Lopez once explained how Combs had an instant attraction to her and told her he loved her very early on. Here’s what happened when he fell for Lopez.

Jennifer Lopez wasn’t sure how to feel when Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs told her he loved her

Jennifer Lopez and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs were the music industry’s “it” couple from 1999 to 2001. Combs and Lopez connected early on thanks to their incredible work ethics. Ultimately, they parted ways after Combs allegedly cheated on Lopez. Additionally, the two didn’t have the same ideals regarding home and family life, and Combs admitted to still being in love with Kim Porter during the relationship.

A clip posted to YouTube shows Lopez talking about the early days of her romance with Combs .

“Immediately, he let me know that he liked me, right away,” Lopez explained. “He was like, ‘I love you.’ I was like, ‘What? OK.’ It was just very fast. But we did have a connection. We were both very ambitious and both kind of had the same ideas about our careers. We loved working, and we wanted to do great things.”

Lopez said that she and Combs “did fall in love” over time, and they became “very close.”

“He actually became a mentor as well,” she said, “because he was so knowledgable about the music business.”

Jennifer Lopez said she ‘loved’ Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs ‘very much’ during their relationship

Jennifer Lopez Is ‘Tremendously Disappointed’ and ‘Disgusted’ by Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs, Source Says

Jennifer Lopez and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs had a brief romance, but their love burned bright. In another clip of an interview in the early 2000s, Lopez admitted that she “loved” Combs, though she knew it couldn’t work between them.

“We just didn’t have the same kind of ideals about life, and family, and stuff like that,” Lopez said of the breakup. “It just wasn’t a good relationship for me. It didn’t have so much to do with him as it had to do with me at the time. I had to learn to care about myself a little bit more and put up certain boundaries of what I would accept and what I wouldn’t accept. Really, he was just being himself.”

“He felt like he loved me very much, and I know he did,” she continued. “And I felt like the same way. So, if I was unhappy in some way, then I was the one who had to do something, not him. He was doing everything he wanted to do.”

She might be involved in his upcoming legal battles

Homeland Security raided two of Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ properties in March 2024. Then, footage from 2016 showed Combs attacking his ex-girlfriend, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura , in a hotel room. Now, there might be a renewed interest in Jennifer Lopez’s relationship with Combs, as they were involved in legal trouble when dating. In 1999, a nightclub shooting that included Combs and Lopez left multiple people injured.

“Jennifer Lopez’s presence the night of the shooting incident and then departing in the same vehicle as Combs makes her a witness with firsthand knowledge and could subject her to being subpoenaed to testify under oath,” New York lawyer Pete Gleason told In Touch Weekly . “If there are any criminal charges or civil claims not outside the statute of limitations, this would likely prove problematic for Lopez.”

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