Whew chile. Another day, another dose of steaming hot stanky mess in the celeb-o-sphere. This time, it’s Irv Gotti who’s spilling his own tea to BET’s new Black Coffee series about some of his professional and personal regrets.
“I’ve had a ton of misses. What people don’t see is the misses. I’ve got a Goddaughter Rickey, she’s in the business, and she’s always like, ‘You doing it Uncle, you doing it!’ I said, ‘Rickey because you don’t see the thousand no’s. You just see the one yes.’ But I don’t wear the no’s because I’ma run through that,”
One of his biggest regret has to do with his former friend, Jennifer Lopez. And, yes, Irv has talked about their fractured friendship before — in particular, during a 2017 intrerview with Hot 97.
So what happened? Irv said he got into it with music executive Tommy Mottola. Right after their blowup, Elle magazine called him to get some quotes for their J Lo feature article.
“So I hang the phone up, and literally within two minutes, I’m on 10 and I’m high, which is not a good mixture. So the phone rings and it’s Elle magazine, and they say, ‘We want to get some quotes, with you and J.Lo,’ and I said some wild s**t. She didn’t deserve that.”
Irv said he was gone off of “like, three ecstasy pills, which was the daily. That was like [my] breakfast. For three years I was high. All of those great records though we made, high as a motherf*****r.”
Dang. I can’t even lie. He made some of the best music when he was blown!
J Lo always maintained her song “I’m Real” featuring Ja Rule wasn’t about her ex-boyfriend Diddy, but Irv, being out of his mind, told Elle, “that b***h is lying!”
Since then, he has tried to get back into the singer’s good grace, to no avail.
“I sent her flowers and roses. I apologized and I will continue to apologize for the rest of my life, and I will say, ‘I’m a f*****g idiot.’ But if she never trusts me again, I can’t blame her. I’m an idiot. Like that one, that’s my biggest regret.”
And that, my friends, is how you ruin a friendship in less than 60 seconds!