Ayo Edebiri has said Jennifer Lopez was “very chill” about their potential feud when they appeared on Saturday Night Live together this year.
In 2020, Edebiri appeared on an episode of the Scam Goddess podcast, where she described Lopez’s career as “one long scam,” saying the musician “thinks that she’s still good, even though she’s not singing for most of these songs.” The Bear star also agreed with host Laci Mosley’s claim that Lopez “can’t sing.”
The comments then resurfaced in February, ahead of Edebiri’s debut hosting stint on Saturday Night Live, where she was accompanied by Lopez as a musical guest.
And now, Edebiri has spoken about her interaction with J.Lo in an interview with Vanity Fair. She said any talk of a beef was absurd because “that would be like Mr. Bean and Mick Jagger beefing, and I’m obviously Mr. Bean. She’s J.Lo! She was very chill and nice about it.”
In a recent interview with Variety, Lopez also spoke about the issue, saying that Edebiri approached her to apologise before filming the SNL episode. “She was mortified and very sweet,” Lopez recalled.
“She came to my dressing room and apologised with tears in her eyes, saying how terrible it was that she had said those things.” Lopez said Edebiri “loved” her performance on the show, and “actually got to hear [her] perform” during the SNL soundcheck. “She was just like, ‘I’m so fucking sorry, it was so awful of me.’”
Edebiri herself acknowledged the comments on SNL, appearing in a game show skit where participants confronted their past social media posts.
Portraying a panicked contestant, Edebiri said: “It’s wrong to leave mean comments, or post comments just for clout, or run your mouth on a podcast, and you don’t consider the impact because you’re 24 and stupid.”
The Bottoms star added that she “speak[s] for everyone when I say from now on, we’re going to be a lot more thoughtful about what we post online.”
Edebiri, on the other hand, will return in season 3 of The Bear this June.
