The musician, 53, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday to promote his new album, The Love Album, but the conversation veered off after Kimmel questioned the rapper about the rumor.
The rumor in question speculated that Smith, 55, and his wife Jada, 52, allegedly propositioned the Let’s Get Loud singer, 54, for a threesome. Diddy and Lopez dated from 1999 until 2001.
‘Speaking of love,’ Kimmel said as he interrupted Diddy, who was talking about his Love album. ‘I saw a guy on the internet the other day. He said he used to be your security guard, who said that when you were dating J.Lo, Will Smith and Jada tried to pick her up on a threesome and you were gonna beat up Will Smith. Is that true?’
Diddy took a long pause as he looked at Kimmel in bewilderment over the question, before replying: ‘Yo, this show has gotten crazier since the last time I was here. No.’
Awkward: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, 53, denied rumors he wanted to fight Will Smith over a threesome proposition with Jada Pinkett Smith and his ex girlfriend Jennifer Lopez
Threesome: The rumor speculated that Smith, 55, and wife Jada, 52 (seen in 2003) allegedly propositioned J.Lo, 54, for a threesome, back when she and Diddy were dating in early 2000’s
Throwback: Diddy and Lopez dated from 1999 until their breakup in 2001
‘It’s all about love though. That’s not true?’ Kimmel replied, further confusing the record producer.
‘You really heard that?’ Diddy asked in regards to the rumor about him and Lopez, who famously donned a plunging Versace gown back when she dated the Harlem-born hip-hop star.
‘Yeah, yeah, I watched it on the internet. You’re telling me I can’t believe everything I read?’
‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ he responded, adding, ‘Jimmy, I thought we was friends. Where did this interview just go?’
The rest of the conversation was all about his first project in 13 years, The Love Album.
‘All my heart issues I work into my songs. I take pride on being vulnerable about my love life, and so that’s why I made an album, called “The Love Album.” This is about my love life,’ he explained.
He also spoke about the significance of the word love and why he changed his middle name to Love.
‘I changed my name to Sean Love Combs. I’m serious about love, y’all. I’m all in on love. I just decided I’m just gonna be love all the way.’
Bewildered: Diddy took a long pause as he looked at Kimmel in bewilderment over the question, before replying: ‘Yo, this show has gotten crazier since the last time I was here. No’
Addressing the rumors: ‘I watched it on the internet. You’re telling me I can’t believe everything I read?’ Kimmel asked
Confused: ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ he responded, adding, ‘Jimmy, I thought we was friends. Where did this interview just go?’
Iconic dress: Lopez famously donned a plunging Versace gown back when she dated the Harlem-born hip-hop star; seen in 2000
‘I changed my middle name to love. So, Sean Love Combs is my legal name now on my birth certificate and my drivers license.’
Diddy never married, but his most serious relationship was with the mother of three of his six children – Kim Porter – who passed away, age 47, in 2018 from lobar pneumonia.
He dated Porter from 1994-2007.
Diddy’s interview comes after Jada has recently opened up about her marriage to Will in her new memoir, Worthy, where she detailed their seven-year separation.
She left her fans and critics with their jaws on the floor when she revealed that she and her husband had been separated and living apart for seven years, despite presenting the image of a happily married couple.
Despite the split bombshell, Jada later told Extra that she and Will have actually made their way ‘back’ to one another – and that a divorce was ‘off the table.’
‘The idea that we were separated for seven years and that we’re like still apart after the Oscars, we made our way back, you know, and I think that piece has been left out of the narrative,’ she said.
Jada also recently admitted that she decided to stay by Smith’s side, the moment he slapped Chris Rock at last years Oscars.
Bombshell memoir: Jada recently revealed she and Will are working towards a ‘non-traditional relationship’, after she opened up about their seven-year separation in her memoir; seen 2022
The Matrix star revealed how she and Will have made the mutual decision to work towards a ‘non-traditional relationship’, given their past.
‘I would say that Will and I have decided to be in a relationship that fits what we desire, and so, we had our separation and then the Oscars came and we are definitely on a different trajectory.
‘But I will not say that it’s in a traditional way, for sure. We decided to be together in a way that works for us.’
Jada released the book on October 17.
