Jennifer Lopez has been more than grateful for the two children that came into her life. Apart from just experiencing the joys of parenting, Lopez’s kids helped make the actor’s life easier in a variety of ways.
Jennifer Lopez experienced a mental breakdown during the movie ‘Enough’
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The film Enough was a 2002 thriller that starred Lopez, whose character was in a dangerous relationship with a wealthy contractor. Before Enough, Lopez was already a movie star with several years’ worth of filmmaking experience under her belt.
But making Enough was much different for Lopez than performing in her other films. In a 2008 interview Lopez did with The Daily Beast, she opened up about the unexpected panic she had on set. The sudden emotion was a response to the culmination of work and stress that was building up in her life at that time.
“There was a time when I was very overworked and I was doing music and movies and so many things. I was suffering from a lack of sleep,” she said. “And I did have a kind of nervous breakdown. I froze up on a set. Well, not on a set, but in my trailer. I was like, ‘I don’t want to move. I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to do anything.’ It was on that movie Enough [in 2002]. Yeah. I did. I had a nervous breakdown.”
Her breakdown had eventually gotten to the point where she had to see a specialist to help her through the ordeal. Lopez was told that rest might be the solution to her problems.
“‘I’ll tell you what’s wrong,’ Lopez recalled the doctor saying. “‘You’re sleep deprived. You’re overworked. Go home and go to bed.’ He told me to go back to work on Monday after a weekend of sleeping because if I waited longer that I would only get more panicked about working. So that’s what I did. I’ve still never been to a shrink. I’m not a shrinky person.”
Jennifer Lopez’s kids helped save her from her mental breakdown
