Jennifer Lopez just admitted in a very revealing interview that she suffered ‘a kind of nervous breakdown’ seven years ago. It was just before she married her second husband, dancer/choreographer Cris Judd. Blaming overwork and stress, she refused medication, choosing to rest until she felt better.

She told website The Daily Beast that she ‘froze’ while filming Enough in 2001:

‘I was like - I don’t want to move. I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to do anything. I had a nervous breakdown. There were no signs leading up to it. You really don’t know what’s happening at first. I was going, what’s going on? It’s funny what tricks your mind plays on you. I just didn’t want people to think I was falling apart.’

She went on to talk about Scientology (her dad is a Scientologist for more than 20 years) and how people do not understand the religion:

‘I just wish that people wouldn’t judge it without knowing what it is,’ she said. Lopez added that she would be happy for her children to attend a Scientology school.

On her diva image:

‘Once you have a lot of success you become a target in many ways. I just think the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things. And still even with that they find stuff to pick on.’