When they were interviewed by Essence in 2009, Diddy and Kim Porter had rekindled their on-and-off relationship. Porter had some choice words for Jennifer Lopez, dismissing her as a temporary distraction with a “big booty and a smile.”
Porter was dating Diddy when Lopez appeared in his 1997 music video for “Been Around the World.” After the two singers’ relationship went from being professional to romantic, a furious Porter booted Diddy from their shared abode. However, she expected him to come crawling back someday. “He was still in love with me,” she said. According to Porter, Diddy kept her phone ringing throughout his highly publicized romance with Lopez. Adding to the messiness of the situation was the arrival of Diddy and Porter’s second child shortly before Porter learned about the affair.
Lopez’s first husband, Ojani Noa, was also upset when he learned that Diddy and Lopez had started stepping out together. “I rang Jen and asked why she was going out with him on dates and she said, ‘It’s just business. This is what I’m being told I have to do,'” he told the Daily Mail. “I was jealous and would scream, ‘But you are married!'” Lopez and Noa divorced in 1998, a year before she and Diddy walked their first red carpet together at the 1999 MTV VMAs. Explaining why he cheated with Lopez, Diddy told Essence that Porter “wasn’t really conforming to how I wanted her to conform.” Ick.
