Called off wedding ... Jennifer Lopez kisses former flame Ben Affleck. Picture: Supplied. Source: AFP
JENNIFER LOPEZ has admitted that her diva ways and enormous entourage could have hurt her famous romances.
The New York Post reports that the singer blamed the failure of her relationships with Ben Affleck and husband Marc Anthony partly on her omnipresent army of handlers and hair and makeup stylists.
Still friends ... Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in Gigli Source: Supplied
J.Lo, 45, opened up to Hoda Kotb about her book, True Love.
When asked what might have gone wrong in past relationships, she responded, “There’s a lot of people in my life and that’s hard. There’s people in the house. There’s hair and makeup. It’s a lot, I think, for someone to deal with.”
Jenny From the Block famously travels with a huge crew that includes her manager Benny Medina and a cadre of stylists and handlers, as well as her trainer, Tracy Anderson.
Second husband ... Actor and singer Jennifer Lopez holds hands with choreographer husband Cris Judd in 2001. Picture: Supplied. Source: AP
Lopez also told Kotb about the pressure of fame, “Forget about all the outside stuff, being judged, being under scrutiny in the relationship ... I guess that adds in ... but I think they would say that [the entourage] was a big part of their discomfort, if there was any.”
J.Lo described how her divorce from Anthony affected her six-year-old kids, Max and Emme, who were then 3. “You don’t really say anything to a three-year-old, because they don’t really understand anything is happening ... I remember like maybe after Marc wasn’t in the house for about eight months, Max saying something because my dad came over,” she said.
Jennifer Lopez, right, and her third husband Marc Anthony in 2011. Picture: AP Source: AP
“It was so painful ... I go, ‘That’s my daddy,’ and he goes, ‘My daddy left me.’ I said ‘No, baby, your daddy didn’t leave you. You know how my daddy goes home? Your daddy goes home, too.’ You’re just scrambling at that point. What can you say to a three-year-old?”
She admitted she’s in therapy: “You have to work on yourself ... It’s not talking to yourself in the bathroom, it’s finding out what’s really going on, digging down into the gooey, messy stuff ... You have to face yourself sometimes, like OK, seriously, everything is not going perfect, what are you doing wrong? Me, not you, me.”
