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Old grudges die hard, at least as far as Jennifer Lopez and Mariah Carey are concerned.
According to reports, Mariah Carey — who has had a long-running feud with Jennifer Lopez for over 20 years now ever since she said “I don’t know her” — has “taken pleasure” in watching J. Lo’s personal and professional struggles this year.
Furthermore, Carey also allegedly believes that Lopez is currently suffering the consequences of karma.
“Mariah Carey, has been following the cancellation of Jennifer’s tour and her marital woes with Ben Affleck ‘very closely and took a lot of pleasure in seeing her fall on her face,’” a source told InTouch Weekly.
“She believes it’s karma biting her in the butt because she’s not as talented as she thinks and way too arrogant. For J. Lo it’s a huge big kick in the teeth to Mariah making all these huge concert plans, especially because she knows how much she’s been trash-talking her and laughing about her divorce to boot.”
This year has seen Lopez go through a publicly drawn-out divorce from her husband Ben Affleck and had to cancel the entirety of her summer tour. While Lopez claimed the tour was canceled so she could focus on her family, ticket sales suggest that low turnaround also probably played a factor.
These issues were also coupled with the release of her new album This Is Me… Now, which suffered from both middling reviews and sales.
Lopez has had a successful year in her film career, however, as her Netflix project Atlas, despite largely abject reviews, was reportedly a massive hit for the streamer. She also has a new film about one-legged NCAA champion wrestler Anthony Robles, produced by her soon-to-be-ex-husband, set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
As for Carey, she’s in the midst of her The Celebration of Mimi residency at the Dolby Live in Las Vegas, which began in April and will run through February.