Jennifer Lopez suffered a serious health crisis due to “working too much” early in her career.
During an appearance on Monday’s podcast “SmartLess,” Lopez said that in the early 2000s, she “didn’t realize my limits” and ended up in the hospital with horrific symptoms after working “98 days straight without a single day off.”
“When I was doing ‘Enough,’ I think I was doing like four movies in a row, and I was recording my second album or something like that, so the ‘JLo’ album was really big,” she explained.
The 56-year-old star said he would shoot all day, go to the studio at night, and do junkets and video shoots during busy weekend hours.
But eventually, one day on the set of 2002’s “Enough,” Lopez’s fatigue got the better of her.
“Every time I walk on set, my heart races inside. It’s like I’m standing up,” she said. “And then I finally got to the point where I was like, ‘I’m really nervous.’
Lopez told her young co-star Tessa Allen that she was “feeling a little weird” because she was “tired” and that she knew she was “not okay.”
“I went back to my trailer and sat down, and all of a sudden I couldn’t see,” Lopez revealed. “It was as if something had passed over my eyes and I couldn’t see clearly and couldn’t move.”
The “Dance Again” singer said she felt “paralyzed” at that moment and called for help from her friend and then-assistant Arlene, who asked Lopez’s security guard to take her to the hospital.
“I said to the doctor, ‘Am I going crazy?'” Lopez recalled. “And he said, ‘No, you’re not crazy.'”
Lopez was a busy actress in the early 2000s, thanks to the films “The Cell,” “The Wedding Planner,” “Angel Eyes,” and “Made in Manhattan,” which were released before “Enough.”
Over the next two years, she starred in Gigli, Jersey Girl, and Shall We Dance?. and the “monster of in-laws.”
She also released three albums between 2001 and 2005.
In “SmartLess,” Lopez said she realized her “anonymity was gone” when a fan approached her so aggressively on the street that she thought she was being robbed.
“I thought, ‘I can’t take this back. It’s forever.’ And I remember that’s when I started having panic attacks.”
Lopez added that it took her a while to realize that her life had changed in ways that she could no longer control.
