The love story between The Fugees members Wyclef Jean and Lauryn Hill is one of music’s biggest legends. Jean says his relationship with the “Everything Is Everything” singer sparked quickly. The relationship had big highs and major lows, which often impacted the group. Both Jean and Hill were in relationships with other people as they continued their affair. Jean admits to being in love with two women simultaneously: his future wife, Claudinette and Hill.
Wyclef Jean explains his attraction to both his wife and Lauryn Hill
In his memoir Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story (via Salon), Jean admits that he began dating both women around the same time. He’d recently started rehearsing with the group and moved into a shared home with his bandmates to focus on their music. Jean says meeting his future wife Claudinette was a dream.
“I met Claudinette when I was about nineteen, and she is a few years older than me,” he writes. “She was fly, she was established, she was modeling in New York, and just so she wouldn’t pass me by, I tricked her and lied about my age. I said I was twenty-two or something, so she’d go out with me.”
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Jean says his attraction to Claudinette was due to her value system. “Her family is very religious and traditional, so I brought her to my dad’s church and courted her the proper way and we started dating,” he recalls.
Jean’s attraction to Hill was birthed out of their shared love of music. “Lauryn and I were pursuing a dream together, and that goal, as well as our mutual love of music, was the language that brought us together,” he writes. “Lauryn’s beautiful, and because of her looks and her talent and everything we shared with each other — from songs to books to lyrics — love was bound to grow.”
Looking back, he is not proud of juggling relationships with two women who he admits to loving. But Jeans says dating both women was inevitable.
“I was with both of these incredible women at the same time, which isn’t something to be proud of but it was definitely unavoidable,” he writes. “I couldn’t say no to either of them and I mean it when I say I loved them both, because I did.”
The producer says his love with Lauryn Hill was a fantasy
Jean writes that despite the intense attraction between him and Hill, their love was equally toxic. As much as the couple loved hard, they fought harder. The tension began to affect the group, and rumblings about their affair ran rampant in the music industry.
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Both Jean and Hill were also in relationships with other people. Jean was obviously with Claudette, and Hill began a relationship with Rohan Marley. Jean writes that his relationship with Hill was a “fantasy.”
“You can hear the tension in the music, all of that impossible love,” he writes. “It was like we knew it wasn’t going to work from the start, but we couldn’t shy away. It’s not that it was wrong; it’s just that it was too good to be true. The way we related we couldn’t sustain because it was this whirlwind of creativity, this success, this performance. It was a fantasy that we engaged in because it was almost as if the music and the group and what we were doing drew us in.”
Wyclef Jean blames Lauryn Hill’s pregnancy on the group’s breakup
All good things must come to an end and for Hill and Jean, their breakup was imminent. But Jean claims the breakup happened as a result of Hill lying about being pregnant with his child, something he says was the ultimate betrayal.
“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 wrote. “She could no longer be my muse. Our love spell was broken.”
Despite their past love triangle, the group has performed together in recent years. Fans are even more excited as the group announced plans for a reunion tour for the 25th anniversary of The Score in November and December 2021.
In the book, Wyclef admits that he was jealous of Hill's new relationship, despite having his own marriage, but when she became pregnant, he was led to believe that he was the father of her son.
Lauryn Hill is an internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter and record producer. A musically precocious child from South Orange, New Jersey, she was only 13 when she joined the innovative hip hop group the Fugees.
The Fugees were dissolved after disagreements between Hill and member Wyclef Jean. Hill went on to release her debut album 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' in 1998. Miseducation was almost entirely written and produced by Hill herself. The album featured a mix of neo-soul and rapping.
Pras was born in Jersey, but his parents were from Haiti, while Lauryn was born in New Jersey of American parents. The guys call her "Haitian by association".
Meanwhile, Jaq's sister Lauryn is in Liverpool after snitching on Sully in the previous season. She is pregnant and is being abused by her boyfriend, Curtis, and his sister, Vee, so she escapes back to London. She reaches out to Jaq who hides her in her girlfriend's house and informs Dushane about Lauryn's return.
She was subsequently sentenced to a three-month prison term and an additional three months in home confinement. Following her release in 2013, she continued to draw large audiences when she performed, though she gained a reputation for being erratic.
Her Baptist family moved to New York for a short period before settling in South Orange. Hill has said of her musically oriented family: "there were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played the piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded by music."
In the weeks since, she has postponed two shows — one in Philadelphia and the other in Fort Worth — citing severe vocal strain and injury. “I fought through the last couple shows, pushing my voice, and masking the injury with medication. This isn't safe or sustainable,” she said at the time.
Lauryn Hill (pictured in 2007) and her band Fugees had the best selling single of 1996 with their cover of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly", which spent five non-consecutive weeks at number-one in June and July.
Lauryn Hill starred with Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. Seeing her freestyle and bust through gospel classics in the film as Rita is like watching a prequel of Lauryn Hill becoming Lauryn Hill.
The iconic group is reuniting for the 25th anniversary of Hill's debut solo album. Christmas came early this year! Ms. Lauryn Hill announced on Tuesday that she and The Fugees will reunite for an upcoming tour to celebrate her iconic 1998 debut solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Hill's critically acclaimed debut and only solo record to date was released on August 25, 1998, and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, making it the bestselling album by a female rapper, the bestselling neo-soul album of all time, and one of the bestselling albums in history.
During that time, they had five children: Zion, born in 1997; Selah, born in 1998; Joshua, born in 2001; John, born in 2003; and Sara, born in 2008. Lauryn later welcomed her son Micah in 2011.
Selah Louise Marley (born November 12, 1998) is an American model and singer. Marley is the daughter of singer-songwriter and rapper Lauryn Hill and football player Rohan Marley, as well as a granddaughter of reggae musician Bob Marley.
Jean and band member Lauryn Hill pursued a romantic relationship beginning in 1992, and ending in 1997, the year of the band's breakup. Jean later revealed that Hill's dishonesty about the parentage of her child, Zion David, caused the rift that split the group up.
“The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” is one of history's best projects and albums. This gem was born on August 25, 1998, and produced and written by Lauryn Hill. What makes this album so great is Lauryn expresses her emotions deeply in her songs which allows her listeners to be heavily influenced.
Lauryn has six kids; her first five, who she shares with ex Rohan Marley, are son Zion, 26, daughter Selah, 25, son Joshua, 22, and John, 21, and daughter Sarah, 16.
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