Diddy has shared a comical response to his former bodyguard’s claim that he almost fought Will Smith over Jennifer Lopez — though he managed to do so without addressing whether or not the story is true.
On Monday (October 30), the Bad Boy mogul appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to discuss his latest LP, The Love Album. During the conversation, the host brought up Gene Deal’s claim that Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith were hoping to lure J.Lo into having a threesome with them, prompting her then-boyfriend to confront her male suitor.
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After staring at Kimmel with a stern expression in response to the audacious question, the 53-year-old businessman broke character and said: “Yo, this show has gotten crazier since the last time I was here … you really heard that? I don’t know what you’re talkin’ about. Jimmy, I thought we was friends.”
Check out the hilarious exchange at the 7:13 mark below:
The incident in question was recently brought up by Deal during an interview with The Art of Dialogue last month, where he recalled Puff’s alleged heated reaction after suspecting that the Men In Black star and his wife were trying to get with his partner.
“We were at a birthday party that I think Matt Damon was giving for Ben Affleck. It was just a little gathering at the Four Seasons,” he recalled. “Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Puff, Will Smith and Jada were sitting on [one] side of the room.
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“[Puff] stood up. And when he stood up, he walked and did his arms a certain kind of way like [crossing them]. I go over towards him and he said to me, ‘Yo, I think Will and Jada are trying to scoop up Jennifer. I want you to stay close ’cause I’ma snuff him.’”
Gene Deal laughed as he recalled thinking to himself that Will Smith would most likely “beat the shit” out of Diddy, although he acknowledged that his former employer could “scrap.”
The ex-bodyguard also remembered strategically positioning himself far enough from Puff so that if he were to snuff Will, “I could move slow enough that Will could probably get two or three punches back in.”
“That shit was funny,” he concluded with a chuckle. “He thought that Jada and Will were coming on too strong to Jennifer, making advances.”
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It’s unclear when exactly the alleged clash occured, but Diddy and Jennifer Lopez dated between late 1999 and early 2001 after meeting on a music video set; so it was most likely within that time frame.
