Back in February, Ayo Edebiri and Jennifer Lopez appeared on Saturday Night Live together.
But ahead of the gig, things got super awkward when some past comments Ayo made about J.Lo’s music career resurfaced online.
As you might have seen, Ayo appeared on the Scam Goddess podcast back in 2020 — and during her episode, she referred to Jennifer’s music career as “one long scam.” She said, “Today I was actually thinking about one of my favorite scams of all time because J.Lo is performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Her whole career is one long scam.”
Ayo later said that J.Lo “thinks she's on multiple tracks, but it's not her.” She added, “I think she thinks that she's still good even though, like, she's not singing for most of these songs.”
Ayo wound up addressing her past comments during the SNL episode in a skit titled “Why'd You Say It.” She said, “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,” she added.
Shortly afterwards, J.Lo revealed that Ayo had tearfully apologized to her ahead of their joint SNL appearance.
“She was mortified and very sweet,” Jen said. “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.’”
And now, Ayo has shed a little more light on Jennifer's reaction when she apologized to her backstage.
Sitting down with Vanity Fair for a new cover story, Ayo revealed that J.Lo was super “nice” about the ordeal. “She was very chill and nice about it,” she shared.
Ayo also shut down speculation that she and J.Lo had started feuding because of her resurfaced podcast comments. “That would be like Mr. Bean and Mick Jagger beefing, and I’m obviously Mr. Bean. She’s J.Lo!” she said.
