Ojani Noa, 48, claims his ex-wife “loves being in love” but loses interest after the passion in her marriages fizzle,Noa — who met J-Lo when he was a Cuban refugee waiting tables in Miami — has kept a low profile since his one-year union with the former “In Living Color” Fly Girl dissolved in 1998. He told the outlet her recent nuptials with Ben Affleck brought back a rush of old memories.
“Miami was buzzing. I did some modelling. I hustled. I wanted the American dream – and I found it when Jen walked into Lario’s,” he reportedly said.WireImage “They get back and I take her hand and lead her on to the floor, and a slow song comes on. It was electric. She was shaking and said, ‘You make me nervous.’
While Lopez was in Los Angeles, Noa talked to her frequently from the payphone at the restaurant, according to the Mail. When she returned to Florida, the actress invited him to be her date for the “Blood and Wine” premier. “We’d been together about six months when she got ‘Selena.’ We went to San Antonio, Texas, for the shoot and every night we’d come back to the hotel and she’d collapse in my arms filled with insecurity. She didn’t think she was good enough. In the middle of the night she would burst into tears. I comforted her and said she was the best, that she was killing it.
“Jen would be in tears all the time. Her mom was calling and yelling at her, trying to get her to change the venue. So I called [Jen’s mother Guadalupe Lopez] Lupe and said, ‘You need to stop this.’ That was a big mistake. From then on there was tension between me and Lupe.”“She went from Jen to being J-Lo, this big business bringing in millions. She had all these new people around her, all wanting to make money off her. I would call and an assistant would say, ‘Sorry, she’s not available.