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Jennifer Lopez recently appeared on the SmartLess podcast, where she opened up about some of her struggles with fame
The actress, 56, recalled the first time she realized she’d lost anonymity in going about her day-to-day life
Another incident featured exhaustion so severe that Lopez says she briefly lost her sight
Jennifer Lopez is recalling a scary moment of exhaustion from some of her hardest-working days.
Appearing on the SmartLess podcast, the actress, 56, recalled a time when she learned the price of pushing herself too hard, resulting in a visit to the hospital while suffering from exhaustion after working more than three months straight.
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“When I was doing Enough, I think I had done like four movies in a row, and I had recorded my second album or something like that, so the JLo album, which was really big. And I was working, filming every day, as you guys know what that is, you know, all the hours. And then I would go into the studio at night, and then on the weekends, I had junkets or video shoots or whatever. And I remember not clocking that I had worked like 98 days in a row without taking a day off,” she shared.
Jennifer Lopez in 2002
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It hit her one day, while she was on the set of Enough.
“Every time I walk to the set, I start getting a little pitter-patter in my heart; it’s like rising. And finally, it got to the point I was like, I really feel nervous, and I had the little girl in Enough. And I was like, ‘I’m sorry, sweetie, I feel a little weird today.’ I said, ‘I’m a little tired or something,’ and she was like, ‘It’s okay, You’re going to be alright’ … but I wasn’t alright,” she shared.
“I went back to the trailer, and I sat down, and all of a sudden, like, I just couldn’t see. Like, it was almost like I couldn’t see clearly, like something just went over my eyes, and I couldn’t move,” Lopez continued. “And one of my girlfriends, who was my friend since the second grade, was my assistant… And I said to her, ‘Arlene, I can’t move. I can’t see.’ She goes, ‘Stop it, Jennifer, you’re scaring me.’ And I go, ‘No, I really can’t move. You should get somebody.’ “
“We went to the hospital. And I said to the doctor, I said, ‘Am I going crazy?’ And he said, ‘No. You’re not crazy,’ ” the actress recalled.
She said the doctor told her her body essentially “shut down” from the exhaustion she was feeling.
Elsewhere in the podcast, Lopez also shared the moment she realized she’d lost her anonymity as her stardom rose. While on the way to an audition, she was approached by fans and felt jarred, worried she was getting mugged. Once she realized what was happening, she said she felt a different dread.
“I think in my mind, I thought, ‘You can’t get that back. That’s something that lasts forever,’ and I remember that’s when I started having panic attacks,” she revealed.
“That was getting used to fame and realizing your life had changed in a way you couldn’t control anymore. You can’t go back. There’s always gonna… somebody will always have seen Selena and for whatever reason, that really freaked me out and that took a minute,” she shared.
Even Arnett recounted a moment where she was hounded by photographers on her way to the Monster-in-Law set, only contributing to her level of stress.
“It can be really tricky, and you learn to kinda like live a certain way,” Lopez said. “Like, I don’t go out all that much, you know. Nowhere I can go, to this day. And I have my, like, very small group of friends and they come over or we do things or we go on trips. But even when we go on trips, it’s very curated, and you have to learn because it’s just part of it.”
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