Eddie Murphy spills a family secret: He and Martin Lawrence are in-laws after kids marry

Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence’s children conscionable built connected the friends’ narration without adjacent casting them successful a caller movie together: Their 2 oldest are present joined — to each other.

Yup, the 2 drama legends are besides in-laws.

“Saturday Night Live” seasoned Murphy, 64, broke the quality successful an interrogation airing Thursday connected “The Jennifer Hudson Show.” He explained to his “Dreamgirls” co-star that everyone successful some families expected a large wedding aft the 2 got past fall, but his lad Eric and Lawrence’s girl Jasmin coiled up tying the knot without a batch of hoopla.

“Yeah, we’re in-laws,” helium said, noting that present “Bad Boys” prima Lawrence, 60, “doesn’t person to wage for the large wedding.”

“They got joined astir 2 weeks ago,” Murphy told Hudson. “They went off. Everybody was making the large wedding plans and past they decided they wanted to bash thing quiescent with conscionable the 2 of them and past they got married.

“They didn’t person a wedding. They went disconnected and they got joined astatine the church. ... They conscionable had the 2 of them and the preacher.”

Murphy said helium expects the recently blended clan to person “a large party” to observe the juncture soon.

Eric Murphy, 35, projected to Jasmin Lawrence, 29, past November successful a tiny lawsuit with precocious accumulation values: myriad candles, romanticist lighting, angiosperm petals covering the level and a glowing orangish bosom arsenic a backdrop. The 2 had gone Instagram-official with their narration backmost successful June 2021.

“We’re engaged!! God genuinely blessed america with a emotion that feels similar destiny. We couldn’t beryllium much excited for this adjacent chapter,” she wrote connected Instagram. “Special convey you to everyone who made this infinitesimal truthful beautiful!!”

Jasmin Lawrence is Martin Lawrence’s eldest daughter. She’s from his archetypal marriage, to Patricia Southall. She has 2 younger sisters, Iyana and Amara, from her dad’s matrimony to Shamicka Gibbs, which ended successful 2012.

Eric Murphy is the oldest of Eddie Murphy’s 10 children. His ma is Paulette McNeely. The comedian has 3 much sons and six daughters with 4 different women, including his existent woman and parent of two, exemplary Paige Butcher.

Eddie Murphy’s ace astir Lawrence not paying for the large wedding goes backmost to erstwhile the second joked to Jimmy Kimmel successful 2022 that their children mightiness person a “comedy super-baby” unneurotic and said, “I’m gonna effort to get Eddie to wage for it.”

Murphy snarked backmost a twelvemonth aboriginal connected Canadian TV, saying, “If it goes down, Martin is paying. And the wedding amended beryllium wonderful.”

We stake it was.

Times unit writer Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this report.