Jennifer Lopez has shared details of a frightening health episode from her career. She said her body shut down after she worked for 98 days straight without a break. The singer and actress spoke about the experience on the SmartLess podcast.
The Office Romance star said the incident happened in the early 2000s. At that time, she was filming, recording, and promoting several projects at once. She was shooting the movie Enough. She was also working on her album J.Lo, which became one of her biggest commercial successes.
Lopez, 56, said she did not realise how long she had gone without a day off. She had been moving between film sets, recording studios, and press events. The combined workload added up to 98 days in a row.
The Latina beauty described feeling anxious before filming a scene. She noticed her heart racing each time she walked toward the set. She told a young co-star that she felt strange. Then she went back to her trailer.
Soon after, her condition got worse. She said her vision blurred and she could not move.
“I sat down and all of a sudden I just couldn’t see,” Lopez said on the podcast. “Like something just went over my eyes and I couldn’t move.”
The Love Don't Cost A Thing hitmaker then called out to her longtime friend and assistant, Arlene, for help.
The episode led to an emergency hospital visit. Lopez said she feared something was seriously wrong with her mental state. She asked a doctor if she was losing her mind.
The doctor gave her a different answer. He told her that her body had shut down from exhaustion. The cause was not psychological. It was physical burnout from months of nonstop work.
The early 2000s marked a high point in Lopez’s career. She was balancing acting and music at the same time.
The hospital scare became a turning point in how she viewed her workload. – The Statesman/ANN
