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Leah Remini refuted claims of any ‘rift’ with her former best friend Jennifer Lopez, which reportedly arose when she missed Lopez’s 2022 Georgia wedding to then-fourth ex-husband Ben Affleck.
‘Just because you don’t speak with someone daily like before doesn’t imply the love has faded,’ the 54-year-old former star of King of Queens told Us Weekly on Wednesday.
‘Friendships ebb and flow. That doesn’t mean we’re at odds.’
Last September, Leah and the 55-year-old pop diva got back in touch with each other following the legal separations from their respective spouses.
‘We’d text each other loving messages of support,’ Remini revealed.
Jennifer and the 52-year-old Oscar winner’s divorce was finalized on February 20 after two years of marriage.
Leah Remini (right, pictured June 2021) dismissed the notion of a ‘rift’ with her previous BFF Jennifer Lopez (left), with the rumors allegedly linked to her absence from Lopez’s 2022 Georgia wedding to Ben Affleck (middle).
And the two-time Emmy winner finalized her divorce from husband Angelo Pagán on October 11 after 28 years together and 21 years of marriage.
‘I cherish my friendships and not everybody is meant to be in your life in the way that they were,’ Leah explained.
‘When you grow out of that person that you were, that doesn’t mean that you are at odds with them. I have many friends that I don’t talk to every day. That doesn’t mean we’re at odds — it’s just that I’m at a different place and so are they.’
Remini and Lopez haven’t been pictured together since June 2021, but their friendship dates as far back as 2004.
The Flight Risk actress frequently credited her A-list alliance with the American Music Awards host for giving her the strength to leave the ‘abusive’ Church of Scientology in 2013 after 34 years.
Leah and Jennifer portrayed ‘Value Shop’ supermarket co-workers Joan and Maya in Peter Segal’s dismally-reviewed 2017 rom-com Second Act, which earned $72.3M at the box office.
And in 2018, Remini let fans in on the surprising dynamic of their bond when she crashed Lopez’s Access Hollywood interview to bust her balls about how and when she picks up the check.
‘In a group, when it’s like 100 people you do [pay],’ the Brooklyn-born, LA-raised funnywoman accused.
‘But when it’s me and you? Bulls***, Jennifer! She never has her credit card on her, conveniently.’
Annoyed, the two-time Grammy nominee replied: ‘So she picks up the cheap checks and I pick up the expensive checks. Who picks up the tab then?! This is my interview!’
The 54-year-old King of Queens alum clarified to Us Weekly on Wednesday: ‘Sometimes you don’t talk to people every day like you used to, but that doesn’t mean the love is lost. Friendships ebb and flow. That doesn’t mean we’re at odds’ (pictured in 2020)
Last September, Leah and the 55-year-old pop diva got back in touch with each other following the legal separations from their respective spouses: ‘We’d text each other loving messages of support’ (pictured in 2019)
Jennifer and the 52-year-old Oscar winner’s divorce was finalized on February 20 after two years of marriage (pictured in 2024)
The two-time Emmy winner finalized her divorce from husband Angelo Pagán (L, pictured in 2021 with their daughter Sofia) on October 11 after 28 years together and 21 years of marriage
Leah and Lopez haven’t been pictured together since June 2021, but their friendship dates as far back as 2004 (pictured in 2006)
Remini frequently credited her A-list alliance with the American Music Awards host for giving her the strength to leave the ‘abusive’ Church of Scientology in 2013 after 34 years (pictured in 2018)
The native New Yorkers portrayed ‘Value Shop’ supermarket co-workers Joan and Maya in Peter Segal’s dismally-reviewed 2017 rom-com Second Act, which earned $72.3M at the box office
And in 2018, Leah let fans in on the surprising dynamic of their bond when she crashed Lopez’s Access Hollywood interview to bust her balls about how and when she picks up the check (pictured in 2021 with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas)
![Remini accused: 'In a group, when it's like 100 people you do [pay]. But when it's me and you? Bulls***, Jennifer! She never has her credit card on her, conveniently'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/06/04/22/99053209-14781491-image-a-16_1749072055034.jpg)
Remini accused: ‘In a group, when it’s like 100 people you do [pay]. But when it’s me and you? Bulls***, Jennifer! She never has her credit card on her, conveniently’
Annoyed, the two-time Grammy nominee replied: ‘So she picks up the cheap checks and I pick up the expensive checks. Who picks up the tab then?! This is my interview!’
In 2022, Leah shared a snap of herself happily hanging out with Jennifer’s third ex-husband Marc Anthony (M) and his much younger fourth wife Nadia Ferreira Muñiz (3-R)
Remini talks to her current BFF Michelle Visage (L, pictured in 2021) ‘on FaceTime for an hour every morning’ and she’s on a funny ‘text chain’ with Holly Robinson (M) and Tisha Campbell
The current NYU student also gushed over how her comedian gal pal Chelsea Handler (R, pictured in 2021) ‘will go out of her way to visit’ her daughter Sofia Bella Pagán in New York after knowing her since she ‘was in diapers’
In 2022, Leah shared a snap of herself happily hanging out with Jennifer’s third ex-husband Marc Anthony and his much younger fourth wife Nadia Ferreira Muñiz.
Remini talks to her current BFF Michelle Visage ‘on FaceTime for an hour every morning’ and she’s on a funny ‘text chain’ with Holly Robinson and Tisha Campbell.
The current NYU student also gushed over how her comedian gal pal Chelsea Handler ‘will go out of her way to visit’ her daughter Sofia Bella Pagán in New York after knowing her since she ‘was in diapers.’
On June 16, Leah and her 57-year-old estranged husband will celebrate the 21st birthday of Sofia.
