Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown.
I felt compelled to bring up this story. This story I got little hiccups going on right now. Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter. It's entitled Jennifer Lopez gets candid on divorce, scrapped tour and online backlash. Quote. If I see something that's hurtful, I'm not teflon. And then when she's asked to speak about some things, and she's talking about how things unfolded, and you know, everybody, you know, everybody knows that she separated from Ben Affleck. Everybody knows what that situation. I mean, we saw it all in the news. Stuff like that. Before I say anything else, before I read some of these quotes. I've had the pleasure of meeting Jennifer Lopez on a couple of occasions. Jennifer Lopez is a wonderful woman, hardworking, very talented, very beautiful. Obviously, I met her when she was dating a rob. I don't blame her for commenting on certain things, and I don't blame her for feeling compelled to speak because she you know, the paparazzis and stuff like that. You think people like me have it bad, ain't nothing compared to her. I mean, it's ridiculous. I'm telling y'all right now, I ain't seen shit like it. I mean, maybe Michael Jackson, Prince and a few other stars, but the way they get followed, the way they get mobbed, it's ridiculous. So her speaking of herself, I don't blame her, but the one thing that I do want to say, she's talking about the breakup, and she's being interviewed by that hilarious stand up comedian Nicki Glazer. You saw her with the Tom Brady Rose. She's off the chain. But Jennifer Lopez said to her this quote, it was like my whole fucking world. World exploded, she said. In recapping the year, the separation and all of this stuff from Ben Affleck, she said, moments lady continue, I think what I love about life that there's no arrival point. There's only getting better and growing if you want to. It's either growing or dying. And I don't want to do the dying part. And yeah, there's times when I thought I figured it out, and then life goes Let's send you another thing and see if you fall forward. Let's see if you really have learned that lesson. And I hadn't I understand that now in a much deeper way, which doesn't mean that I won't make mistakes in the future. But again, when your whole house blows up, you're standing there in the rubble going, how do I not ever let that happen again? Ladies, gentlemen, you know what I took the liberty of doing. Before I get out of here, I want to say this. I actually googled marriage vows because you see Jennifer Lopez. And it's not a criticism, it's just a suggestion because I truly do believe you're wonderful and I'm a fan, and you've always been wonderful to me, and I will never ever disrespect you. But you've been married four times four so I feel compelled, or felt compelled to read look up marriage marriage valus. See, I ain't never been married, and I'm gonna take that plunge. Someday I'm gonna take that plus someday I'm scared as hell, because trust me, it is a plunge. That's how I feel about it. I'm on a plank, all right. But let me say this. Reading marriage vows, I such and such take you such and such to be my lawfully wedded husband. Or wife. I promise to be true to you, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all.
The days of my life, having to hold from this day forward until death do us part.
That's what you're saying to one person. Where the hell are O the three supposed to come from? That's the issue. Don't get married. Don't get married no more until you know ain't no way at hell there's the slightest sliver of a chance that you're getting a divorce. I'd even tell you, give you incentive, and I'll end the show on this note. My boy card down cart Down Brooks. I'm diming them out on national airwaves or the international airways of YouTube. I'm diving them out. He's been on this show before. Came on line from Vegas last year before the Aerospence Junior Terrence Crawford fight. Do you know what, my boy, who I love daily? But damnit, he's a flaming idiot sometimes. Are y'all ready for this grip? Sherry, Michael Rashawan, all your married ass folks out there, let me not forget pot belly Galen. Do y'all know what Rashon said, not Rashaan, what my man Cardell said. I want y'all to keep in mind, the dude is broke. He ain't got that much money, all right. I mean he got a good job and all that, but he ain't making He ain't making it, ain't making book dollars. Right. You know what he said, I already got a prenupber adreament agreement, draw drawing up. It's true story. Whoever leaves gets nothing, that's the prenup agreement, no matter what. Here was his explanation. We said we loved one another. We said we were cherished one another. We would be there for each other forever and ever. You understand, we went up on an altar in the church.
Before God and said forever until death do us.
But where the hell do you think you're going? That's what he did. That's why all my boys, when he turned around, he couldn't find us because we was on the floor. We was laughing. That damn heart. He's ad His pre n up agreement is one sentence, whoever leaves gets nothing. That's how he felt. Ladies, gentlemen, we were in our twenties. He's in his fifties and he still feels that way. The brother ain't all there, but I love him. And the funny thing is, if j Low had followed that mandate, might not be any prows. Whoever leaves gets nothing. I'm just speculating, not that ben Affleck needs anything from her, she needs anything from him. We can't have those vals and go back forth. Yeah, force and all of that stuff is legal, but that's why people are talking. So just be with somebody and don't get married. You are gorgeous, you are smart, you are incredibly gifted, you are incredibly accomplished, and like you said in that Hollywood Reporter article, you don't need much. You ain't looking for nobody. So stay single. It ain't like the brother gonna leave you because you didn't marry him. Who's leaving you if they don't have to worry about the paper as an a marriage certificate, Just a suggestion,