Jennifer Lopez has opened up about her past abusive relationship: “Being thrown around and manhandled like that is not fun.”
The 54-year-old discussed hitting “rock bottom” in her candid new documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told.
The singer currently married to Ben Affleck has also been in high-profile relationships with P.Diddy, Marc Anthony, Casper Smart and Alex Rodriguez.
However, the mother-of-two never named the ex who was physical with her in the documentary.
Jennifer admitted: “There were people in my life who said ‘I love you’ and then didn’t do things that were kind of in line with the word love.”
“You have to hit rock bottom where you’re in situations so uncomfortable and so painful that you finally go, ‘I don’t want this anymore.'”
The pop star recalled how it was her therapist’s comparison to her daughter that pulled her out of “the fog.”
Jennifer confessed that her therapist asked her how she would treat the situation if it was happening to her daughter, to which she responded: “It was so clear. I’d tell her get the f**k out of here and never look back, but for me, it was so clouded and complicated.”
“Being thrown around and manhandled like that is not fun. I mean, I was never in a relationship where I got beat up, thank God, but I’ve definitely been manhandled and a couple of other unsavory things. Rough. Disrespectful.”
In an interview with People, J-Lo revealed that her husband Ben was “reluctant” to appear in her documentary.
“The other scary part was that I was bringing into it my husband, who was kind of the reluctant participant, silent participant and all.”
“I just said to him during one of the parts of the movie, I was like, ‘Is this weird?’ He’s like, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘You’re crazy.’ I told him he was crazy, not me. But I know that I’m a crazy one. I get that part.”
“But I really feel like as an artist, you have to be vulnerable. You have to, even when you’re playing a role, have to get down to the real parts of yourself to share what it’s like to be human. And that is a scary thing to do.”
“I think people would think I’m so used to being in front of a camera and I’m quite comfortable with it, and that is true. I am comfortable with it.”
“But when you are kind of sharing your… you don’t have a script that you’re reading and playing a character or you’re not singing a song that you’ve written and is going to go out to the world, but you’re just living your life and really sharing your deepest thoughts, because that’s what you have to explore to tell this story and to do what you’re trying to do. That one for me was very scary. “
