Jennifer Lopez<\/strong> appeared on The Howard Stern Show<\/em><\/a> for the first time after Howard Stern<\/strong> spent decades mocking her.<\/p>\n The Kiss of the Spider Woman<\/em> actress, 56, admitted she was \u201calways scared to come on the show,\u201d during her Wednesday, October 15, appearance, per Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Stern, 71, has criticized the multi-hyphenate star on everything from her career choices to her dating life \u2014 even calling her relationship with Ben Affleck<\/strong> \u201cridiculous\u201d in 2003, the outlet reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em> alum later slammed her role as a judge on American Idol<\/em> during a 2012 press conference, reportedly saying, \u201cI don\u2019t even know what she\u2019s doing there.\u201d<\/p>\n The previous year, while listening to J.Lo\u2019s \u201cOn the Floor,\u201d he joked to co-host Robin Quivers<\/strong> that the beat was \u201cthe sound of me banging my head against the wall,\u201d per The Things<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n The Wedding Planner<\/em> star claimed during their Wednesday sit-down that she was afraid she might \u201csay something\u201d she would regret.<\/p>\n However, during their discussion, Lopez opened up about her 2024 divorce from Affleck<\/a>, 53, explaining, \u201cI wanted to share my life with someone<\/a>. I want someone to be there to share my big, important moments on the red carpet.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t hide from it. And I spoke about it,\u201d the Maid in Manhattan<\/em> actress continued. \u201cAnd I think now, after what\u2019s happened in the past few years to me and to my children, I feel like \u2026 I just want to keep that part so much more quiet in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to be under that microscope,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source globemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Kowalsky \/ MEGA; Joe Russo \/ MEGA Jennifer Lopez appeared on The Howard Stern Show for the first time after Howard Stern spent decades mocking her. The Kiss of the Spider Woman actress, 56, admitted she was \u201calways scared to come on the show,\u201d during her Wednesday, October 15, appearance, per Daily Mail. Stern, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2094162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003],"class_list":["post-2094161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760572680_Jennifer-Lopez-Addresses-Howard-Sterns-Decades-Long-Criticism-in-First-Interview.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094163,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094161\/revisions\/2094163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2094162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging.globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA1346990_008-1-scaled-e1757613773551.jpg\")