Jennifer Lopez makes surprising admission about 'really tough' Marc Anthony divorce

For the first time in a long while, Jennifer Lopez has opened up about marriage and divorce to her third husband, Marc Anthony.

Lopez has had many high profile relationships, which sadly ended in a split.

At first, the singer married actor Ojani Noa in 1997 but divorced the following year in 1998.

She then wedded dancer and choreographer Cris Judd in 2001, whom she divorced in 2003.

Lopez then went on to spend a decade married to Marc Anthony, with the pair tying the knot in 2004 before divorcing in 2014.

However, the pair share two children.

Lopez and Ben Affleck then rekindled their relationship from the noughties, marrying in 2022 before getting a divorce in 2025.

Lopez filed for divorce with the Los Angeles County Superior Court, citing 'irreconcilable differences', and while Affleck hadn’t said much about the whole thing, in March of last year described the whole divorce as ‘embarrassing’.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony were married for 10 years (Photo by Victor Boyko/Neon/Getty Images)

JLo on the other hand has continued on with life, revealing last year that she never felt truly loved by the men she had relationships with whilst speaking with Howard Stern.

But when it comes to Anthony, it seems as though it was a different situation than the rest.

While speaking onstage at her Up All Night Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on March 6, the 56-year-old called the initial period after separating from the singer was ‘actually a really tough time.’

“I was really about to give up on it all,” Lopez, said. “I mean, I was a single mom with two 3-year-old twins.”

She went on to say that she was later given some advice by the late author Louise Hay, as she told the crowd: “She said to me, ‘Jennifer, you’re a dancer, right?’

She called it 'tough' (Photo by Kevin Winter/WireImage)

“I said, ‘Yes, I am.’ And she said, ‘When you’re learning a dance and you get the steps wrong, what do you do?’ I said, ‘I just keep going until I get the steps right.’ And she said, ‘That’s right Jennifer. Always keep dancing.’ ”

Lopez then told the crowd that she wishes 'the same for each and every one of you’ and that everyone can keep dancing through each challenge.

Previously, Lopez told Stern that she doesn’t think she’s ‘not lovable’, it’s that the men she were with were not ‘capable’ of giving her love.

She said: "What I learned, it's not that I'm not loveable, it's that they're not capable... they don't have it in them.

"They need to appreciate the little person inside of them... and they gave me what they had, they gave me all of it, every time.”