Jennifer Lopez admitted she was "about to give up on it all" following her 2014 divorce from Marc Anthony while speaking onstage at her Up All Night Las Vegas residency on March 6
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"It was actually a really tough time, I was really about to give up on it all," she told the residency audience
Lopez and Anthony married in 2004, separated in 2011 and finalized their divorce in 2014
Jennifer Lopezadmitted she was "about to give up on it all" following her2014 divorcefromMarc Anthony.
While speaking onstage at her Up All Night Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Friday, March 6, the "On the Floor" singer, 56, explained that the months following her split from her third husband was "actually a really tough time."
"I was really about to give up on it all," Lopez, who shares18-year-old twins Max and Emmewith Anthony, 57, continued into the microphone, as seen in videos shared tosocial media. "I mean, I was a single mom with two 3-year-old twins."
But amid the difficult times, theKiss of the Spider Womanstar received one piece of advice from one of her mentors, the late author Louise Hay, that she still carries with her to this day.
"She said to me, 'Jennifer, you're a dancer, right?' " Lopez recalled. "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.' "
"And I wish the same for each and every one of you, that no matter what life throws at you, that you dance and you dance and you dance," she added while pointing to the crowd. "Again and again and again."
Lopezshared similar words of wisdomduring the second night of her Up All Night residency in December, adding that she "really started getting good at [dancing]" after her third divorce at a time when her life "was a mess."
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Despite the hardships that came from her and Anthony's split, Lopez toldSunday TodayhostWillie Geistin December 2018 that Anthony "really helped me with my confidence" during their seven years of marriage.
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"While I was married to Marc, he really helped me with my confidence, and he saw where I suffered," she said at the time, going on to remember him constantly insisting, "You're a great singer. Don't ever let anybody tell you you're not a great singer."
"I respected him so much because I consider him one of the best singers of all time," she continued.
After collaborating with Anthony for her Spanish-language albumPor Primera Vezyears after their split, Lopez told Spotify's¡Viva Latino!podcast in November 2017 that the experience "actually repaired certain parts of our relationship that had been fractured from our marriage and our divorce and it made us friends again."
"Because when we first started working together, it's how we met… we met working," she added. "And so we remembered that, like, oh right, we connect on this level of music."
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