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Jennifer Lopez Says Fame Has a Price

ByABC News via logo
May 17, 2001, 8:22 AM

May 17 -- Jennifer Lopez is everywhere from the big screen to the radio to the TV and of course, the tabloids.

Her rise to superstardom was full of controversy, due to her daring outfits and her very public romance with rap mogul and musician Sean "Puffy" Combs, aka P. Diddy.

Their two-year relationship played itself out in the national spotlight, especially after Combs and Lopez were taken into police custody after a Dec. 27, 1999, shooting at a Manhattan nightclub. Lopez was never charged. Combs was later acquitted of all gun and bribery charges. But by the time it was all over, so was their relationship.

In an interview with ABCNEWS, Lopez says it wasn't the spotlight that ended their romance, adding that she thinks celebrities can have meaningful and long relationships.

"I think you can, absolutely," the actress-singer told Good Morning America. "I mean, the media is not what ended mine and Sean's relationship. It had nothing to do with it, and if we wanted to be together for the rest of our lives, we would have done that, with or without the media."

Lopez says she was happy that Combs was acquitted.

"I mean, those situations are hard for anybody, but, of course, the media adds stress and anxiety to it for you because I think what people forget is that you are a real human being with feelings," said Lopez, adding that it was a difficult time for both her and Combs. "It was super-hard on him to have to go through something as horrible as that, and all I can say is that I'm glad it turned out, you know, the way it was supposed to."

J.Lo, Uncut?

But even though the trial is over and the romance between her and Combs is over, everyone is still very interested in "J.Lo," as many fans call her.

A lawyer for Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight, a long-standing rival of Combs, says one of Knight's companies is producing a video on Lopez titled J.Lo Uncut: The Real Story.

"It's hard, and it's not something that people really want to hear you complain about when you're making a bunch of money and you're in a movie when a lot of people want to do that," said Lopez. "So, you know I don't complain about it. I just try to deal with it and it not to say that it doesn't get hard. It does, but, you know, it comes with the territory."