Melina Alves Reacts to Joey Lawrence, Wife's Reunion After Affair Rumors

UPDATE: 12/5/24 at 7:11 p.m. ET.

Lawrence’s Socked in for Christmas costar Melina Alves — who previously denied having an affair with Lawrence during his marriage to Cope — weighed in on the couple’s reconciliation.

“While these situations are always multifaceted, I’d like to keep the details of it and my friendship with Joey private,” she told People in a statement on Thursday, December 5. “As far as Joey and Sam reuniting and reconciling, it came as a surprise to me as everyone else, and if it’s true, I wish them all the love.”

Alves added: “I wish them restoration with the relationship with his two older daughters and his wife as that relationship is ever so important. And now their sweet girl, Dylan, gets to be raised in a home with both of her parents, surrounded by her sisters, her wonderful and loving grandmother Donna, and the rest of her family and that’s truly beautiful.”

Alves got close with Lawrence while filming Socked in for Christmas, but previously denied having an affair with him. She claimed in an August Instagram statement that she had “no sexual relationship” with Lawrence while filming. “Our relationship was a meaningful friendship,” she alleged.

Original story below:

Joey Lawrence and Samantha Cope are back together!

Lawrence, 48, took to Instagram on Wednesday, December 4, and shared two romantic photos of himself and his estranged wife — almost five months after Cope, 37, filed to divorce the actor.

In one snapshot, Lawrence and Cope smile at an event for their new holiday film, Marry Christmas, where they play an engaged couple set to wed on Christmas Day. Another snap shows them kissing. 

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