Hollywood friendships are often described as temporary, but Leah Remini’s defense of Jennifer Lopez after her 2021 breakup with Alex Rodriguez demonstrates a rare kind of loyalty — one that rejects clicks, speculation, and the easy narratives often assigned to women in public life.

Remini, a close friend of Lopez for two decades, called out claims that Lopez somehow “profited” from a cancelled wedding. In her words, the story critics build is not the one she saw:

“She was in real pain, cried real tears, and still got up. Don’t turn other people’s pain into clicks.”

Her message lands hard because it speaks to a larger issue — how celebrity heartbreak is often consumed as if it were a marketing strategy.