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Jennifer Lopez has revealed that during the height of her early 2000s success, exhaustion left her temporarily blind and unable to move.
On the SmartLess podcast, the 56-year-old recalled filming her 2002 movie Enough while also recording her hit J.Lo album. "I had done like four movies in a row, and I had recorded my second album... I was working, filming every day," she said.
Nights were spent in the studio, weekends on junkets or video shoots. "I remember not clocking that I had worked like 98 days in a row without taking a day off."
The relentless pace finally caught up with her. "I went back to the trailer, and all of a sudden, I just couldn't see. It was almost like something went over my eyes, and I couldn't move," Lopez recalled.
Her longtime friend and assistant panicked when Lopez told her, "I can't move. I can't see." She was rushed to the hospital, where doctors explained her body had simply "shut down" from exhaustion.
Lopez admitted she hadn't realized her limits at the time. "I said to the doctor, 'Am I going crazy?' And he said, 'No. You're not crazy.'" The scare forced her to confront how dangerous overwork could be.
She also shared how fame added another layer of stress. At one point, she thought she was being mugged when fans suddenly approached her. "In my mind, I thought, 'You can't get that back. That lasts forever.' That's when I started having panic attacks," she said. Adjusting to life without anonymity was overwhelming.
Reflecting now, Lopez says she's learned to take better care of herself. "Give yourself a little love, stop looking for love in other things. Give it to yourself," she explained, adding that she truly believes people are capable of change because she's lived it.
