*Irv Gotti appeared on “The Wendy Williams Show” Monday to discuss the rumors about his alleged affair with Ashanti.
The Murder Inc. co-founder wants y’all to know that the singer is not the mystery woman that his ex-wife Debbie Lorenzo found him with. Irv declined to name the woman he had an affair with but made clear that Ashanti is not a homewrecker.
“Can I talk about this, with women, and I’m gonna circle back to you Wendy,” he said, theJasmineBrand reports. “Why is it, if a man and a woman is married and they get separated and they’re totally separated … with me and Deb separated, she caught me cheating,” Gotti said, to which Wendy asked if the woman he was caught creeping with his former artist, Ashanti.
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“No, Ashanti is not a homewrecker, guys. Ashanti had nothing to do with me and Deb. Deb caught me when I was directing ‘I Cry’ in Baltimore. Deb, being the vicious person she is, she came down unannounced, ‘I’m Mrs. Lorenzo, give me the room key.’ The door was latched, but she knows I’m in there. That’s what broke me and Deb up.”
He also claims Ashanti “wasn’t even in the picture” during the time of the alleged affair. When Wendy asked about the last time he spoke with Ashanti, Irv replied “we don’t speak. I’d talk to her. It’s nothing to me.”
Back in 2013, Gotti addressed the Ashanti affair rumors on The Breakfast Club.
“Here’s the real. Me and Ashanti have a unique and special bond. Okay? We made great music together. No, we didn’t have sex. I never slept with Ashanti,” Gotti said. “Let me tell you about our relationship. Listen, we at Murder Inc. is like a family. What happened when I fell upon hard times, certain people bailed. She bailed. She didn’t wanna be a part of Murder Inc. no more. She’s this princess that I created and the ‘Murder’ wasn’t good for the image anymore.”
The affair speculation resurfaced when Irv spoke about his past with Ashanti on WeTV’s “Growing Up Hip Hop: New York.” Deb also chimed in and said, “We were still married, but we were separated when they were dating. I was used to it from the beginning, like I’m going and traveling, I just wasn’t used to the women. That was new like, ‘where did these h*es come from?’”
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