Lady Accused of Joey Lawrence Affair Reacts to His Reconciliation with Spouse Samantha Cope

Melina Alves stated the reunion “got here as a shock to me,” however added she needs them “all of the love” — this after she denied ever having a sexual relationship with the actor.

The lady who was on the heart of affair allegations when Joey Lawrence’s spouse Samantha Cope filed for divorce is now talking out on their reconciliation.

Melina Alves (above proper), who wrote and starred within the vacation film Socked for Christmas with Lawrence, was accused of getting an affair with the actor after the pair met on the movie. The 2 had been noticed collectively again in August, one week after Cope introduced she and her husband separated; Lawrence and Alves each denied having a sexual relationship on the time.

On Thursday, Lawrence and Cope shocked everybody by asserting their reconciliation on Instagram, lower than 4 months after Cope filed for divorce. Per TMZ, they plan to name off the divorce and are totally again collectively.

In a press release to PEOPLE, Alves reacted to their reunion.

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“Whereas these conditions are at all times multifaceted, I’d prefer to hold the main points of it and my friendship with Joey personal,” she instructed the outlet. “So far as Joey and Sam reuniting and reconciling, it got here as a shock to me as everybody else, and if it’s true, I want all of them the love.”

“I want them restoration with the connection together with his two older daughters and his spouse as that relationship is ever so necessary,” she added. “And now their candy woman, Dylan, will get to be raised in a house with each of her dad and mom, surrounded by her sisters, her great and loving grandmother Donna, and the remainder of her household and that is actually lovely.”

Lawrence and Cope share daughter Dylan, who turns two in January. He additionally has two daughters — 18-year-old Charleston and Liberty, 14 — who he shares with ex-wife Chandie Yawn-Nelson.

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Alves beforehand addressed affair hypothesis on Instagram in August.

“It’s with a deep unhappiness and heavy coronary heart that I have to deal with the latest allegations concerning the relationship between myself and Joey Lawrence, which have sadly turn into a public matter,” she stated on the time. “As a non-public particular person, it’s deeply distressing to see such private and delicate points being mentioned so overtly and inaccurately.”

“Our relationship was a significant friendship that developed naturally as a result of many similarities in our private conditions,” she continued. “After I met Joey, I used to be instantly struck by his kindness, heat and real character. We discovered frequent floor in our shared experiences, which led to a powerful supportive friendship that has been a supply of power for each of us.”

She claimed that her marriage to Edward Rider had been “struggling for a while” and stated they’d been separated since January 2023. Rider accused them of getting a sexual relationship in divorce docs.

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Lawrence, in the meantime, additionally addressed the rumors on his personal Instagram web page.

“With a deep sense of accountability, I wish to reply to the latest allegations surrounding my private life, together with my divorce and the claims of an affair with Melina Alves,” he shared. “Melina and I grew to become shut buddies and I didn’t have a bodily relationship along with her whereas filming the film Socked in for Christmas. These rumors are false. Our bond was based mostly on shared experiences and an understanding of the challenges we had been each going through in our private lives.”

“I used to be clinging to the hope that I might save a relationship that, in my coronary heart, I knew was past saving,” he stated of his marriage to Cope on the time. “My short-lived marriage was fraught with difficulties from the start. Our variations grew to become insurmountable.”

“This has been a multifaceted journey these 4 [or] 5 years. Truly, there was a variety of ache in that journey regardless of public notion and what it seems to be like [on social],” he stated on the time. “Life will transfer on and we are going to transfer by means of this. And my kids might be on the forefront.”