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"Fly Girl Feud! Brooklyn native Rosie Perez has some scandalous secrets to share about Jenny From the Block. In her tell-all memoir, Handbook for an Unpredictable Life, Perez, 49, opens up about her on-going feud with Bronx native Jennifer Lopez, 44.&amp;#xA0;\r\nThe New York Post pulled out excerpts from the book, which hits stands on Feb. 25, noting Perez&amp;apos;s recollection of her days on In Living Color with Lopez.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nThe two met in 1991 during the open casting call for the show&amp;apos;s Fly Girl dancers. Perez was the show&amp;apos;s famed Fly Girl choreographer and claims that she was the one who convinced host and creator Keenan Ivory Wayans to pick Lopez.&amp;#xA0;\r\nThough the American Idol judge has credited Wayans with discovering her, Perez claims he thought she was &amp;quot;chubby and corny&amp;quot; and that she, in fact, was the one to encourage the hire.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nBut in a 2010 VH1&amp;apos;s&amp;#xA0;Behind the Music episode about JLo, Wayans claimed to have known about Lopez&amp;apos;s star potential from the start.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;I&amp;apos;d been there hours and seen every dancer in New York, and then this young girl steps up and a spotlight landed on her and she captivated everyone in the room,&amp;quot; Wayans recalled in the episode.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;He just saw something in me,&amp;quot; Lopez confirmed. &amp;quot;He would always tell me, &amp;apos;You&amp;apos;re going to be a big star.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n\r\nMaking her debut in September 1991, the future pop diva didn&amp;apos;t immediately connect with her fellow dancers.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;#x201C;All of the girls were coming into my office complaining how she was manipulating wardrobe, makeup, and me, all to her advantage,&amp;#x201D; Perez wrote in her memoir, saying Lopez thought the girls were just &amp;quot;jealous.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nShe then went on to say that the Grammy winner dropped her &amp;quot;sweet girl act&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;went off&amp;quot; on Perez like &amp;quot;some ghetto biatch, screaming and pounding her chest.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nPerez claims Lopez shouted, &amp;#x201C;You pick on me, me and only me, every f**king day! Every f**king day! I work my ass off, deliver and you keep pushing me aside, treating me like s**t! I know I&amp;#x2019;m good! I&amp;#x2019;m better than any of these girls, and you know it.&amp;quot;\r\nAnd though the singer left the show after two seasons to pursue her acting career, Perez claims she continued to make &amp;quot;disparaging comments&amp;quot; about her in Hollywood. After being hurt by the alleged comments, Perez was surprised when Lopez was friendly to her at a night club years later.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;#x201C;Jennifer came over to me, smiling, saying hello as if nothing had happened. I should&amp;#x2019;ve let it go, played it off, too. Instead, I killed her with my biting tongue,&amp;#x201D; Perez writes without elaborating."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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