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Wyclef Jean made headlines this week after revealing that during his affair with Lauryn Hill, she led him to believe she was pregnant with his child. 

While most of us already knew that Lauryn and Clef sparked up a romance during their time working together in The Fugees, his new book, Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story, has shed new light on their relationship. 

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Wyclef recently sat down with MTV for an on-camera interview and addresses why he talked about their affair in the book.

He told the network:

“Autobiography means that I’m gonna give it to you, and I’m gonna spit to you the year and the era of what it was,” he explained. “Throughout the years, there’s always been different things that’s been said, and I just went into deep detail for y’all.”

“It’s important because at the end of the day, I’m not coming at L. This is a period of my life, and that’s how I felt. If anything, I just brought closure to a chapter — because at the end of the day, I didn’t do Miseducation, so there was no closure in my chapter, but I kept writing and writing. It was important just to be honest. I’m not known to sugarcoat, so it’s either yes or no. And for [someone] picking up something and reading it, I don’t think that I should’ve left it as a myth. Because even if I said it or she said, history is gonna say what it is.”

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Wyclef also addressed whether he believed the Fugees could have stayed together longer and made more music had Lauryn not lied about her pregnancy:

“No, I don’t think so. I think that what happens is, things are created and sometimes they dissolve. I think there was a lot of stuff going on. If you’re married and you’re in a love triangle with a person in your group, it’s only gonna last but so long. Something’s gonna explode. So if it wasn’t the baby, something else would’ve happened, and it would’ve exploded in different ways.”

At the end of the day, Lauryn can just respect Wyclef for being straightforward and honest with his story. Hopefully we’ll hear her side one of these days!

Check out Wyclef’s interview with MTV above.

SOURCE: MTV