Mariah Carey Says She Still Doesn’t Know J.Lo
Mariah Carey is still insisting that she’s never met J.Lo. While appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday, host Andy Cohen asked Mimi about her 2003 comments about the fellow singer. “I can’t tell you how much ‘I don’t know her’ has become part of the lexicon,” Cohen said, referring to a widely memed clip in which Carey was asked on a German television program whether she knew Lopez. “The thing is, I was being honest when I said it,” Carey told Cohen. “So I don’t know how it became so big. Honesty isn’t really something that becomes big most of the time.”
Cohen then asked, “To clarify, you still do not know her right?” Carey sighed and said, “How could I suddenly know [her], you know?”
J.Lo, who already tried to set the record straight back in 2016, is probably not going to be thrilled about Carey’s latest denial. While appearing on The Wendy Williams Show nearly a decade ago, Lopez called the queen of Christmas “forgetful,” claiming they’d met “many times.” “Apparently, I’m forgetful,” Carey told Cohen later that year. “I don’t know her, like what am I supposed to say?”
True or not, I’m proud of Mimi for sticking to her story. She’s expertly employed two tried-and-true Real Housewives techniques here: deny, deny, deny … and claim memory loss. That always worked for Lisa Rinna, why not the queen of Christmas too?
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