Jennifer Lopez Says Her Mother Used To Hit Her During Childhood

Jennifer Lopez has said her mum ‘beat the s**t’ out of her when she was younger as she opens up about their relationship. 

The 52-year-old singer and actor has spoken openly about her relationship with mum Guadalupe Rodriguez, 76, for the recently released documentary Halftime. 

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Lopez, who has sisters Leslie and Lynda, said that her ‘super complicated’ mum would physically lash out. 

She said: “She did what she had to do to survive, and it made her strong, but it also made her tough. She beat the s**t out of us.

“I was surrounded by a lot of strong women. My mum is a super complicated woman and she carries a lot of baggage, she wanted us to be independent and never have to rely on a man.”

Lopez moved out when she was 18-years-old to pursue a career in acting - against her mum’s wishes to continue her education. 

She told the documentary: “My mum was like, ‘If you're gonna live in this house, you're gonna get your education’. We got into a bad fight one night and I just left.' 

Rodriguez, who used to work in a school, said she and her daughters would occasionally ‘butt heads’, but said she always had their best interests at heart. 

She said: “I always had the highest expectations of them. It wasn't to be critical. It was only to show you that you could do better.

“Jennifer, she gave me the hardest time, to tell you the truth. We butted heads a lot.

“I was far from the perfect mother. The one thing I can always say, everything I did, I did with their best interest at heart.”

Lopez recently got engaged to actor Ben Affleck, for the second time. The couple first got together back in 2002, but called off the wedding in 2004. 

However, last year, the pair reunited and in April 2022, Affleck popped the question once again - and got himself a ‘yes’ for the second time. 

Lopez has called the reunion a ‘beautiful thing’ and says the extra years have meant they are ‘smarter’ than when they first dated. 

During an appearance on Ellen, Lopez said: I don’t think anybody was more surprised than us. You never could imagine that something like that could happen. It’s a beautiful thing."

While she told PEOPLE: "We're older now, we're smarter, we have more experience, we're at different places in our lives, we have kids now, and we have to be very conscious of those things."

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