Everyone always thought Wyclef was the reason behind the Fugees breaking up, well we were partly right, according to Wyclef’s memoirs, he was having an affair with Lauryn, she made him believe her son could be his and it messed him up.
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“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.”
Talking to MTV He explains a bit more on their relationship and the songs Lauryn released
When [The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill] came out, y’all was mad at me,” he said, referencing songs like “Ex-Factor,” which were written about him and their relationship. “All the girls was like, ‘Oh, we can’t believe Wyclef broke Lauryn Hill’s heart.’ ” In his memoir, ‘Clef admits that listening to the album felt like he was reading a diary of their relationship, but he still needed to tell his story. “Two wrongs don’t make a right, so I accepted my wrong for that period and being an adolescent, being kind of cocky … but at the same time, past me, there’s gonna be more people with more groups. There’s gonna be another Fugees being created … there’s gonna be another person that’s gonna be like, ‘I wanna be Lauryn Hill.’ [But] when they read the autobiography, they’ll be like, ‘Ah, man, girl, you do look fine, but going by this biography, I can’t kick it to you. Let’s just do this group and make things work.’
“It’s important because at the end of the day, I’m not coming at L,” he said, dismissing any notion that he’s attacking her. “This is a period of my life, and that’s how I felt. If anything, I just brought closure to a chapter — because at the end of the day, I didn’t do Miseducation, so there was no closure in my chapter, but I kept writing and writing. It was important just to be honest. I’m not known to sugarcoat, so it’s either yes or no. And for [someone] picking up something and reading it, I don’t think that I should’ve left it as a myth. Because even if I said it or she said, history is gonna say what it is.”
Is it possible, then, that if Lauryn Hill had been honest about her pregnancy, the Fugees could’ve had a longer run as a group? “No, I don’t think so,” Wyclef said without hesitating. “I think that what happens is, things are created and sometimes they dissolve. I think there was a lot of stuff going on. If you’re married and you’re in a love triangle with a person in your group, it’s only gonna last but so long. Something’s gonna explode. So if it wasn’t the baby, something else would’ve happened, and it would’ve exploded in different ways.”
Although the new details of Wyclef and Lauryn Hill’s relationship might come as a shock to some fans, he said the story could’ve been about 3,000 pages long if he’d had his way, but he doesn’t believe that any of it will upset his former group member. “If she was reading my book, I don’t think she would want me to be any other way than honest with my book,” he said. “Because she’s straight-up honest.”
This comes only few days after Rohan Marley, Lauryn’s ex husband spoke to a magazine to explain what pushed him to leave her as well. Speaking about Lauryn he said :
“[Our relationship] is good as in… in terms of being a mother and father to our children, it’s good. It’s not as perfect as one might want it to be. It’s just the way the road went. As a man, there are certain things I don’t accept, and it just so happened that I didn’t accept certain things [in the relationship]. It doesn’t mean she’s [Hill] a bad person or I’m a bad person. It just didn’t work out.”
I’m not sure, Wyclef coming out with this story sounds more like a marketing ploy than anything else. I’m trying not to judge him but I feel like he took advantage of Lauryn…..but I’ll leave it as is. If you care enough about Clef and his story grab his biography : “Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story” In stores now.
