Talk About Bad Timing!
Lauren Hill has enough problem on her head right now. The singe ris facing jail time for tax evasion [which she plead guilty to], her longtime partner and father of six children, Rohan Marley has split from the star [and currently engaged to braxilian model, Isabeli Fontana , and now her former bandmate Wylclef Jean [whom Lauren had an affair with while he was married] speaks out about the affair and the controversy surrounding Hill’s first child Zion [which Jean says caused the break-up of the Fugee group].
In the words of my Jamaican’s: Oh Lawd!
It’s no secret that Wyclef and Lauren had more than music in common during their Fugees reign during the 1993-1997 era . The dynamic trio group sold millions of records and was sure to have a promising career but all hell broke loose in 1997 . The group announced their split and Hill and Wyclef went on with their individual lives as if nothing was wrong. After Hill dropped her first solo lp “The Mis-Education Of Lauren Hill“ the public was made aware of Hill’s secret affair with Wyclef but at the height of the album’s success, Hill had become involved with Bob Marley’s son, Rohan Marley and bore her first child Zion.
Well, Wyclef is finally coming clean in his auto-biography book “Purpose” about the demise of “The Fugee’s and states it was Lauren Hill’s betrayal that cause the break-up of the group. Wyclef says that he was led on to believe that Zion was his child up until Hill gave birth.
“In that moment something died between us. I was married and Lauryn and I were having an affair, but she led me to believe that the baby was mine, and I couldn’t forgive that.”
“She could no longer be my muse… Our love spell was broken.”
Third member, Pras Michael had mentioned Hill and Jean’s affair in an interview back in 2010 with Us Weekly when asked about Hill’s hiatus from the industry.
Her love was music and the group was her love. Obviously, she had a relationship with Wyclef also, but personal things get in the middle, the ego got into it. With fame, it does a lot things to you, and I think that really upset her,” he says. “When you sacrifice and you gave so much love to an entity and you don’t feel that love back, then … something kind of, like, triggers in your mind. … But, she’s not crazy; she’s fine, she’s perfect.”
The group did bury the beef and has since performed together at several venues, but will Wyclef’s new book drudge up old wounds? Post your thought below.