Eddie Murphy has revealed that his son and Martin Lawrence’s daughter are formally married, making the longtime co-stars and mates in-laws.
The Coming 2 America star talked to Jennifer Hudson concerning the marriage ceremony on Thursday’s episode of The Jennifer Hudson Present. The well-known father dropped a few of the particulars surrounding his son, Eric, and Lawrence’s daughter, Jasmin, getting married, saying the pair simply needed a non-public, low key celebration.
“Truly, they received married, like, two weeks in the past,” Murphy mentioned about their children. “They went off…. All people was making the massive marriage ceremony plans, they usually determined they needed to do one thing quiet with simply the 2 of them.”
Murphy then confirmed that he and Lawrence–his costar in a number of tasks together with Boomerang and Life–are actually associated by marriage.
“Yeah, we’re in-laws,” he mentioned. “And he doesn’t should pay for that large marriage ceremony now.”
The actor and comic, who’s a father of 10, had beforehand mentioned that Lawrence must decide up the tab if Eric and Jasmin ever did tie the knot. As a result of it’s conventional to have the bride’s household pay for the nuptials, Murphy clearly favored with the ability to pin that duty on his co-star.
“Nicely, Eddie mentioned I gotta pay for it,” Lawrence revealed again in December on iHeartRadio’s Huge Boy’s Neighborhood. “He mentioned I gotta pay for it, ’trigger he paid for his final daughter’s marriage ceremony — just like the final six weddings — however he mentioned it’s my flip now.”
Eric and Jasmin first began relationship in 2021, they usually introduced their engagement in November 2024. The couple didn’t wait lengthy to tie the knot, getting married in early Could, in accordance with Murphy. He additionally mentioned that no one was on the ceremony in addition to the couple and the preacher.
“No, they didn’t have a marriage. They went off they usually received married on the church,” he advised Husdon. “They only had the 2 of them and the preacher. They’d a quiet little factor. So I believe we’ll have like an enormous occasion or one thing.”
Congrats to the glad couple!