Amber Rose Back Tracks Comments of Jay-Z Sleeping with Gwyneth Paltrow After Actress Fires Back

Amber Rose accused actress Gwyneth Paltrow of having an affair with rapper Jay-Z and now the former talk show is retracting from her earlier comments.

Rose appeared on Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag’s “Make Speidi Famous Again” podcast on Thursday and claimed that Paltrow was “Becky with the good hair” on Beyoncé‘s 2016 “Lemonade” album.

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The urban model said “I definitely think that Gwyneth Paltrow is ‘Becky with the good hair’ … I feel like she’s the one who was, like, f—king Jay-Z.” She continued, “They were like friends, and then, like, you don’t see Gwyneth Paltrow with Beyoncé anymore. It just seems like she was the one that was f—king Jay-Z, and now Gwyneth lost her husband, but like Beyoncé’s still with Jay.”

The “Iron Man” actress caught wind of the rumor and her rep told US Weekly, “It is completely absurd and 100 percent false.”

Rose doubled down on her affair remarks and tweeted on Thursday, “Bruh we were joking on a Podcast! Lol stop with the Clickbait. I have no information about anyone’s Personal life.”

People have speculated about many women as Jay-z’s mistresses including designer Rachel Ray who denied the allegations.

The Brooklyn rapper admitted to cheating on his wife in an interview with Dean Baquet November 2017 and said recording was like therapy.

“It happened—we were using our art almost like a therapy session. And we started making music together. And then the music she was making at that time was further along. So her album came out as opposed to the joint album that we were working on.” He added, “The best place in the, you know, hurricane is, like, in the middle of it.”

Rose said her comments were not to be taken seriously and that news outlets were only using them for “clickbait.”

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