Wyclef’s New Book Gives Details About His Affair With Lauryn Hill
After years of speculation and rumors surrounding the breakup of The Fugees, Wyclef Jean lays it all out on the line in his new book, “Purpose”. In his book, Wyclef not only discusses the affair he had with Lauryn Hill, but also calls her a liar in reference to the paternity of her child Zion. Wyclef writes that allegedly Lauryn Hill told him her first son was his, but it was actually Rohan Marley’s.
Let me play devil’s advocate for a second.
So Lauryn Hill is being painted as the “bad guy” in this book, but Wyclef was actually the one married. Hi pot. Meet kettle. “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,” Jean writes in “Purpose”. He described this as the reason for the breakup of the group. This sounds like some old Maury Povich mess.
“She could no longer be my muse,” he wrote. “Our love spell was broken.” Apparently Wyclef failed to realize, that you don’t sleep with your muse when you’re a married man. Before the bad blood between the two, Wyclef recalls the first day he met Lauryn:
Pras called me one afternoon and said he needed me to come down to this studio to lay down some vocals. “I’m here with those two girls I told you about in this group we callin’ Tyme. We doin’ a track,” he said. “I need you to come sing some of that reggae stuff you’re so good at.” […] The two girls were named Marcy and Lauryn, and the minute I saw Lauryn Hill, I couldn’t believe my eyes. She was in the vocal booth, and when she came through the door to say hello I experienced that feeling when everything stops for a second. It’s a moment I’ll never forget.
He then goes into more details on how his affair affected the Fugees:
It’s going to be easy for people to read this and say, “Why did he do that to Lauryn? How could he not go with her? He broke up the Fugees!” I wish it were easy to explain away, but it’s not. Claudette was with me when I had nothing, and she stood by me and helped me to be the man that I have become—the man I wouldn’t have been without her […] It’s easy to listen to the music and hear the romance and love in there and think of what could have been. But the music is the best expression of my relationship with Lauryn. The rest of it wasn’t smooth at all. We were either deeply in love or fighting; there was no middle ground. It was a passionate roller coaster ride, every single day […] The real Lauryn is much more complicated than what comes through in her art. Same goes for me.
I can’t help but to wonder if Wyclef would have kept his married penis in his pants, if The Fugees would still be together? I guess we’ll never know.
So this Dude here broke up the group over some ass? He should be ashame of himself. I knew something was shady with this dude. One minute your cool and all of a sudden your shady, and that goes for Pras too.
Whose to say that Wyclef is even telling the truth? It’s really easy to just believe him being that everyone thinks Lauryn is a nut case anyways. Personally, I think it’s tacky and another money making attempt for Wyclef. And he just lost my respect. Neither he or Lauryn were angels if he was still married but they were young and people make mistakes. Obviously Lauryn didn’t need him to be a success story. We don’t know all the stuff that goes on behind the industry or the soul-selling either. There are two sides to every story.. If I was his wife, I would be embarrassed to have him write how he was in love with another woman and broke up an entire successful group because of her… UH sit down Wyclef, we see you!
…i thought men didn’t gossip.
I think the issue here is that she lied about the paternity of the child. It’s one thing to have an affair, it’s another to bring a child in the picture because of it. They were both wrong, he’s just giving his side to the story. I wonder if we will ever hear hers.
For bloody sakes, Lauryn is going through some things right now… Give her a bloody break. She also has teenage children now so why put it out there? Lauryn has done everything in her power to protect her privacy and children for this long and then this sort of rubbish. I knew this guy was an a**hole when he made all those videos on his YouTube channels claiming that Lauryn needed an intervention. Who does that? Leave her bloody be already!