Everything Jennifer Lopez and Leah Remini Have Said About Their Friendship Over the Years: ‘We’re Very Close, Like Sisters Are’

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On the outs? Jennifer Lopez and Leah Remini have been friends for more than a decade — but some fans have questions about where the pair currently stand.Lopez and Remini met in 2004 when the singer started dating Marc Anthony.

The King of Queens alum, who has been married to Angelo Pagán since 2003, recalled the first time she crossed paths with Anthony’s then-girlfriend at a red carpet premiere.“So, we went to the premiere hoping she was gonna be ugly in real life,” the actress admitted to Entertainment Tonight in 2018. “And then, when I was approaching her, I was like, ‘I hope it’s the lighting.

Maybe she just looks good in here,’ and as I got closer I was like, ‘Oh damn, there’s a lot of light right here and she looks really pretty.’”The Dancing With the Stars alum recalled making a comment to Lopez about her looks. “I even said that!” Remini revealed. “I said, ‘Why the f—k?

Why are you so f—king pretty?’ And she laughed. Then I was like, ‘Ugh, I hope she’s dumb,’ ya know? I was like, ‘She could be dumb!’ I wanted to find something [wrong with her] and I didn’t.”Remini added that the Wedding Planner star’s “sense of humor” brought them together. “The fact that I could bust her balls and she wasn’t caught up on herself, said something to me,” she continued.Lopez, for her part, remembered forming a quick bond with Remini. “It was one of those instant chemistry things, where you just feel like, ‘I love this person.