http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/22/jennifer.lopez.american.idol/index.html?hpt=C2

Jennifer is sweet, unfortunately she has the worst manager in the world, Benny Medina….. a bad ass man…. I don’t know how she can stand him… He made me cry and she comforted me… this I will never forget. She fired him once because he was such a pain, but she got him back to get her career back, this I know…. I understand somehow. I am sure he got her that deal… he is good at this. He launched big names in the music business in the past such as Usher and Maria Carey. But they all fired him….

Oh well, tonight I feel like telling you one of my backstage’ stories. In all these years working with big time celebrities, I can tell you I have plenty under my sleeve! I will tell you one of these stories that you don’t usually hear about, but unfortunately, those events happen often behind the scenes of glamorous photo shoots.

One day last year, we were on a magazine shoot in Tokyo and Benny (Jennifer’s manager) was yelling at everyone because he did not like the Starbucks coffee that the staff was giving him, he refused at least 8 of them (and Starbucks was far from where we were located for the shoot). He was getting hysterical, (well, how ridiculous!)…. then out of the blue, he got me on his bad side because of the lights on Jennifer not being strong enough, and he literally screamed at me!

I guess I am not used to be yelled-at like that anymore… I live in Japan where people are polite and educated and he is a real-cowboy-from-the-Bronx with zero education, also he doesn’t know better.
I must have been tired at the time as we had been working long hours. Jennifer was asked to shoot and interview almost 5 magazines that day, she was real regal to work with and gave 200% always to everybody.

Jennifer was having her hair and make up done at that time in her dressing room and she heard shouting outside, also she came out with the crew and looked at who’s Benny was yelling at. Then she kept quiet and she saw the entire scene because she was behind him and he did not notice her.

I did not say anything and I let him scream his insanities and I started crying… If I was myself at that time I would have punched him in the face! Arrrrr I still wish I could rewrite the story and be able to do it

Jennifer asked my friend Andrea Keats who was there assisting me during Jennifer’s trip to go and find me. I came back with Andrea into Jennifer’s room and she was the sweetest to me. At night I went to her suite at the hotel to say goodnight and I did not open the door and get in at the end, because I could hear Jennifer confronting him. And he was lying and furious that I would stand in between him and Jennifer!

The next day I gave him a nice cup of fresh coffee as if nothing happened, but i had previously spit in it … I enjoyed seeing him drinking it.<em>”la revanche est un plat qui se mange froid”</em> Mr Medina. And I hope you are Google-ing yourself and reading my story right now! How did you like the coffee?


French to English… “La revanche est un plat qui se mange froid” = “The revenge is a meal that is served cold”

Do not mess with me :)) remember I am a scorpion and a survivor! In my head and in my heart, I never loose….

Also my message throughout this post is:

1. never let anyone overpowering you

2. never accept to be humiliated as if you are not good enough and you deserve it, because nobody does

3. do not over-react at the time but find a way to calmly get back to that person, so that you feel clear from the injustice

4. speak out when you feel you can, I just feel good now that I wrote this…. just do it at the right time, without anger but looking back at the all thing with a smile on your face….

5. Stay away from aggressive people, because you never know when they are going to blow out. People do change and you definitely cannot change them, run away!

I wish injustice will be an old fashion word someday, peace for now.

ines

ps: Do you want me to post pictures taken during these few days when jennifer was here working with me? I can find them on my server…. let me know. Tks!