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.

“Whereas these conditions are at all times multifaceted, I’d wish to maintain the main points of it and my friendship with Joey non-public,” she advised 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 essential,” she added. “And now their candy lady, Dylan, will get to be raised in a house with each of her dad and mom, surrounded by her sisters, her fantastic 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.

Alves beforehand addressed affair hypothesis on Instagram in August.

“It’s with a deep disappointment and heavy coronary heart that I have to deal with the current allegations concerning the relationship between myself and Joey Lawrence, which have sadly grow to be a public matter,” she mentioned on the time. “As a non-public individual, 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 mentioned they’d been separated since January 2023. Rider accused them of getting a sexual relationship in divorce docs.

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

“With a deep sense of accountability, I need to reply to the current allegations surrounding my private life, together with my divorce and the claims of an affair with Melina Alves,” he shared. “Melina and I turned shut buddies and I didn’t have a bodily relationship together 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 dealing with 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 mentioned of his marriage to Cope on the time. “My short-lived marriage was fraught with difficulties from the start. Our variations turned insurmountable.”

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