Rosie Perez talks about her feud with Jennifer Lopez in her new tell all : 'Handbook for an Unpredictable Life'

By Star Connor | Feb 19, 2014 10:34 AM EST

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Fly Girl feud flashback has gotten Brooklyn native Rosie Perez, 49 telling all about what went on with Jennifer Lopez, 44. Perez revealed secrets about her feud with the singer in her tell all memoir, Handbook for an Unpredictable Life.

The book will be available, Feb. 25 as Perez talks about her days on In Living Color working with Lopez.

The two ladies met in 1991 while on an open casting call for the show's Fly Girl dancers. Perez was the show's choreographer and says that she is the one to ask the host and creator, Keenan Ivory Wayans to choose Lopez.

Lopez claims that Wayans was the one who discovered her, but Perez states that the creator thought Lopez was "chubby and corny" and that Perez is the one behind her getting hired.

Wayans talked about JLo's moves in a 2010 VH1's Behind the Music episode.

"I'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," Wayans said.

"He just saw something in me," Lopez remembers. "He would always tell me, 'You're going to be a big star." In September 1991, Lopez made her debut and did not always get along with her dance mates.

"All of the girls were coming into my office complaining how she was manipulating wardrobe, makeup, and me, all to her advantage," Perez wrote in her book, claiming Lopez thought the girls were just "jealous."

Perez also added that JLo dropped the "sweet girl act" and "went off" on Perez like "some ghetto biatch, screaming and pounding her chest."
Perez said Lopez yelled, "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'm good! I'm better than any of these girls, and you know it."

The singer left after two seasons to pursue her career in acting and Perez says that Lopez continued making "disparaging comments" about her choreographer in Hollywood. Perez was shocked when Lopez was nice to her in the later years at clubs.

"Jennifer came over to me, smiling, saying hello as if nothing had happened. I should've let it go, played it off, too. Instead, I killed her with my biting tongue," Perez wrote.

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