A singer is recalling the terrifying moment she lost her eyesight. Jennifer Lopez revealed that she had been working for months straight.
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The singer and actor opened up about the incident on the SmartLess podcast. Lopez said it resulted in her ending up at the hospital. After workign 98 days, she suffered exhaustion.
"When I was doing Enough, I think I had done like four movies in a row, and I had recorded my second album or something like that, so the JLo album, which was really big. I was working, filming every day, as you guys know what that is, you know, all the hours. And then I would go into the studio at night, and then on the weekends, I had junkets or video shoots or whatever. And I remember not clocking that I had worked like 98 days in a row without taking a day off," she shared.
She said that she felt something was off, but tried to push through it.
Singer Suffers Exhaustion
"Every time I walk to the set, I start getting a little pitter-patter in my heart; it's like rising. And finally, it got to the point I was like, I really feel nervous, and I had the little girl in Enough. And I was like, 'I'm sorry, sweetie, I feel a little weird today.' I said, 'I'm a little tired or something,' and she was like, 'It's okay, You're going to be alright' ... but I wasn't alright," she shared.
Suddenly, the singer said that she couldn't see straight. She called one of her best friends to come and help her.
"I went back to the trailer, and I sat down, and all of a sudden, like, I just couldn't see. Like, it was almost like I couldn't see clearly, like something just went over my eyes, and I couldn't move," Lopez continued. "And one of my girlfriends, who was my friend since the second grade, was my assistant... And I said to her, 'Arlene, I can't move. I can't see.' She goes, 'Stop it, Jennifer, you're scaring me.' And I go, 'No, I really can't move. You should get somebody.' "
"We went to the hospital. And I said to the doctor, I said, 'Am I going crazy?' And he said, 'No. You're not crazy,' " Lopez also added.
However, doctors found that she was suffering from extreme exhaustion.
