JuJu Says Cam'ron Pushed Her Away For The Last Year

We wouldn’t have given them Will and Jada or Denzel and Pauletta status necessarily, but I think we would all agree that Cam’ron and JuJu were a nice couple. They were laid back, supportive of one another, and seemed like they genuinely enjoyed one another’s company at all times. So when it became clear that they had called it quits, we were shocked. And when Cam’ron shared the supposed reason, our shock turned into confusion.

“For me, it just wasn’t fun anymore,” he said on The Breakfast Club. “I met JuJu in 2002, she was my friend before we started being serious. That was my homegirl and everything was fun. But for me, once Instagram came out, I’m the one promoting her on Instagram, marketing her, showing her body, showing people how beautiful she is, saying look, I got a gorgeous woman, without being too distasteful about it—but basically, it stopped being fun.”

But of course, there are two sides to every story. As it turns out, Juju wasn’t too pleased with Cam’ron’s comments about a relationship that lasted a decade and a friendship that had been strong for 15 years. So she visited The Breakfast Club herself and cleared the air, and it sounds like he just wasn’t a fan of her making moves and growing without him. What she shared was quite the eye-opener in terms of the type of relationship they had, and explained why at this point, she says they are never getting back together.

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On Cam’ron Saying Their Relationship Was No Longer “Fun”

“That was really hurtful to me because Cam and I, we were really good friends,” she said. “He said it wasn’t fun for him anymore and that I was concerned about what was going on on Instagram and who he was following. And that’s not true. I  basically was more concerned about a respect level, you know what I mean? There’s d–k picks up and down my Instagram as well, and I didn’t like them out of respect. You’re in a relationship. If somebody has their coochie out or their booty out and you’re liking the pic, they’re like ‘Cam just liked my pic.’ Slide in the DM type sh-t. My thing was, don’t do what I don’t do to you. Respect me. There’s d–k pics that fly up and down my Instagram as well and I can like them as well, but out of respect for you, I don’t do that. So I just wanted the same respect. I don’t want to wake up, look at Instagram, and you’re at a game with somebody talking about ‘Me and my friend.’ If that’s your friend, I don’t have a problem with it. I don’t have a problem with you having female friends, but there has to be a respect level. Tell me, ‘Hey, babe, I’m going to the game.’ Why do I have to see it on Instagram? It’s not ‘because of Instagram.’ It’s because of the things you were doing concerning Instagram and you didn’t respect my feelings.”

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On Him Pushing Her Away For the Last Year

“We had a really good friendship. So I feel that if you’re going to the game with a female friend or anybody, you should be able to tell me. I shouldn’t see it on the ‘Gram,” she said. “Nobody told me, these were things that I was seeing myself. And it was concerns I was having that I brought to Cam’s attention. Not only that, but prior to this happening, because that was the last blowup we had, Cam for the past year was basically pushing me away. I didn’t go to any of his concerts, I wouldn’t go to any of his hostings. And I was like, ‘Yo, what’s up?’ This is me. We’re like best friends. Peas in a pod. ‘Oh, you’ve got your own thing going on.’ He said I couldn’t go and that I had my own thing going. And I never understood. What does that mean? ‘Nah, you’ve got your own thing going on.’ Well, what happened in a year that now ‘I’ve got my own thing going on’? Because for the past nine years, I’ve been going to everything and I’ve been cheering you on and been behind you. So what’s going on? I’m like, is there anybody else? ‘No, no, no, you just need to have your own identity.’ I’m like, ‘My own identity? What does that have to do with me supporting you?'”

On Wanting to Show Him What She Could Bring to the Table

“My whole thing with Instagram and Cam introducing me to the world — and I thanked him many times but I’ll thank him again: Cam, I thank you. Thank you Cam, for introducing me to the world and allowing me to showcase more than a pretty face and a body,” she said. “I’m proud to be an Afro-Latina, I’m educated, I have businesses, and to show who I really am, so thank you for that. In the same token, I didn’t understand what was going on and why I felt that because Cam introduced me to this industry that me working hard, because I work just as hard as he works, you know what I mean? And I worked like that because I wanted to make him proud. Cam’s been in the industry for 20 years. So if he wanted to sit down and live off of the real estate we have and the businesses he has, I wanted to be like, ‘Babe, sit down. I’ve got it.’ I’m bringing something to the table as well.”

On Cam’ron Not Being a Fan of Her Growth

“I never knew that me going for my education, going for my degrees, working as hard as he’s working, was going to turn into ‘That’s not fun.’ He never told me that. I heard it when the snippet came on Instagram. It was really hurtful. Like, yo, you’re going to let go of a friendship of 15 years because you said it’s not fun for you anymore? I’m sorry, I can’t be the 2009- 2010 JuJu. We’re almost in a new century. Like, we’re almost in 2018. This thing called life is about elevating and growing. If that makes me not fun, I’m ok with that. I definitely am.”

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What She Would Say Was the True Reason For Their Split

“I would say it’s more of a growing apart. I wouldn’t blame Instagram,” she said. “I think that’s ridiculous, you know what I mean? I would just say we were growing in different directions. I felt that there were some things that I wasn’t going to compromise. One of those things was, I’m going to be respected, regardless, because I show you the same respect.”

On Him Having Certain Rules for Her but Not Liking It the Other Way Around

“When Cam introduced me to this industry, he told me he didn’t want guys putting their arm around me when I take pictures with fans because people can look at that and think something is going on or try to attach me to the person. I understood that. I’m like, ‘Cool, say no more. I don’t have to question you about why you’re saying that. You’re my man, I’m going to respect that.’ And that was it. Promoters who promote with me, they already know. Some of them made fun of me. ‘Don’t put your arm around JuJu! He don’t play that’ type thing. That’s what my man said, that’s what it is. When I’m telling you, don’t like these chicks showing their a– or don’t follow such and such, you don’t like me to follow certain people either, so don’t make it seem like it was a one-sided thing. That wasn’t the reason we separated. It was more of like, why can’t I be part of what you’ve got going on? You’re going out with the same circle of people you’ve been going out with, but the only one left out is me. So how does that make me feel? The same chicks going, same entourage going, but ‘Nah, you can’t go. You gotta stay home.’ It was just escalating and I felt like, ‘If you don’t want to be with me, just say so.’ I would rather save the friendship, and that’s what we were trying to do until that whole blowup that happened online, and I was just like, I don’t want to be friends no more.”

How It Came Out That They Had Broken Up

“Cam and I been broke up, it’s six months in, but nobody knew about it,” she said. “Before I even went on Love and Hip Hop and talked about it, I was going to work, giving people advice and wearing a smile on my face when I was tore up on the inside because we were not together. I had to hide this. One day my producer saw I wasn’t ok, I wasn’t the same or happy. So she asked me about it and I broke down and told her. I told them what was going on, I told them we broke up and it had been three months. They asked me what I wanted to do. I said, you know what? Everybody knows Cam for being with me. They don’t know him for being with anyone else, and the same for me. So therefore, I have to talk about it on this reality show. This is my reality, and I’m going to talk about it…”

The Ups and Downs of Their Friendship

“Listen, when we broke up, Cam and I, we would get into arguments or a disagreement like anyone else. We would fix it that day. We would always make sure we didn’t go 24 hours without talking to each other. You want to be friends? Let’s be friends,” she said. “When Cam didn’t reach out to me in a day and then a day turned into a week, a week turned into a month and a month turned into two, he didn’t try to reach out or call me. We had a blowout, and it was a mutual thing that we can’t do this anymore. It’s becoming toxic. We never called each other. But two of his friends passed away. The first one passed away and I was like, it’s too soon, I’m not going to reach out. When the second one passed away I was like, I know the guy, I’m not going to be petty I’m going to reach out and make sure he’s ok. I called him, he text me back like, ‘Hey, I know you’re calling for such and such, I’m ok.’ We didn’t call. He just text me. I was like, ‘Ok, I’m just making sure you’re ok.’ Then the rumor report came out. I said, ‘Cam, I don’t see why it’s an issue for me to talk about my reality on a reality show and get paid for it. What’s the problem? We’re not together, and I would never say anything to disrespect you. I thought you were going to be my husband, and the father of my children. It didn’t work out, it just didn’t work out. Did I plan for any of this to happen? No, I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with Cam and grow old with him but sometimes things don’t happen like we want them to happen. So therefore, it is what it is.  He was like, ‘Ok. I would never violate you. Even if you violated me, I wouldn’t violate you.’ I said Cam, you don’t have to worry about. You were my best friend.’ He said, ‘Let’s work on the friendship, I miss that.'”

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On Publicly Falling Out With His Friend

“Then the Industry on Blast post, and people noticed that Cam and I would post pictures and videos all of the time. It’s no pictures. People would ask and I’m erasing comments because I really didn’t want people to know…Industry on Blast posted and they’re like, ‘Are Cam and JuJu Still Together? And Who Is This Lady He’s With?’ It was his friend he hangs out with. My sister commented, ‘She looks like a whole meth head. If that’s what he’s into, that’s what he’s into.’ She didn’t @ him, she didn’t @ her. The next day, my sister’s like, this guy is attacking on me on the comment I made. I look, and it’s a friend of his that I know…he @ her and was saying some threatening stuff. So I’m looking and I’m like, let me see what she said that was so different from everything else that was said because there’s 200 comments. Why did they single my sister out? So I’m looking through, I’m looking through, and I see the other young lady: ‘What’s up? Because I’m with the sh-ts.’ I said, ‘What sh-ts are you with because this is my sister.’ I went off. I cursed them both out. I was out of character but I’m not going to apologize about that. I would curse anybody out again. That’s my sister…That day it finished. She kept on harassing me and low-key bullying me for three days straight. Cam never said anything and I know for a fact that these people aren’t going to move without Cam telling them, ‘Go ahead, I don’t care.’ Either that, or you’re sitting around talking about me. Because they can’t have felt comfortable to talk about me in the way that they did if you’re not talking about me or you said something foul about me around them. Because if you break up with somebody, my friends don’t know if I’m getting back with Cam or not. Usually people try to work out their problems. Why would they go so crazy on me? And she said it on her Live: ‘I got the green light, I was told the leash was off.’ That was very hurtful because you told me you would never violate me, but to me that’s a form of violation to let someone close to you attack me like that for three days.”

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Why She Says She Didn’t “Waste” 10 Years

“It wasn’t all bad. Cam and I had nine years of a fun relationship,” she said. “Cam is a good guy, a great father, and I fell in love with Cameron, not Cam’ron. Cam used to fly in, bring me flowers to work. I would be on the phone with him thinking he’s in New York, he’s at my office to take me out to lunch. I knew he had it in him to make our relationship work because I knew what he was capable of doing. So when he stopped doing that, I just felt like we were growing apart and we were growing in different directions, and that’s ok. I also feel he’s a good man, a great father, a great son, a great businessman. I learned a lot, a lot of things from Cam. People say online, ‘Oh, he wasted 10 years of her life.’ No he didn’t. It was a learning experience, and this was a man that I really learned a lot from and thought I was going to marry. It didn’t work out but it’s never a waste of time, ever. He’s a good man and I wish him the best.”