How Jennifer Lopez Trashed Madonna And Others In An Interview That Almost Ended Her Career

Jennifer Lopez may be one of the brightest stars in Hollywood today, but a tell-all interview she had in 1998 almost marked the end of her career. In the said interview, Lopez ripped into some of Hollywood’s leading ladies and spilled the beans about her randy male costars, single-handedly ruining her own reputation.

Many were shocked when Jennifer Lopez trashed in the controversial interview big stars like Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Bullock and Salma Hayek, whom she described as a mere “sexy bombshell.”

Mocking Hayek, she said that she laughed out loud when the actress claimed that she got offered “Selena,” a role that was ultimately nabbed by Lopez. “If that’s what she does to get herself publicity, then that’s her thing,” she said.

Lopez also attacked Paltrow and said that she couldn’t remember any of the projects she had done before. “I heard more about her and Brad Pitt than I ever heard about her work,” she said.

The Hollywood star also revealed in the interview that she was never a fan of Winona Ryder. She said that she only liked her because she looks like her older sister.

The “Hustlers” star also dissed Madonna, who she straightforwardly described as not a great actress. “Acting is what I do, so I’m harder on people when they say, ‘Oh, I can do that, I can act. I’m like, ‘Hey, don’t spit on my craft,’” she said.

Another one of her most controversial statements was on beating out Sandra Bullock for the lead role in “Out Of Sight,” which she costarred with George Clooney. “You can’t expect things to be handed to you on a platter, even if you can fill theatres week in and week out. Because there’s always somebody like me ready to kick down the door and steal the job right out from under you,” she said.

Lopez was 27 when she graced the highly controversial interview. At that time, she was a rising Hollywood star with a number of successful films under her belt, including “Anaconda” and “Money Train.”

Although Lopez never denied saying those negative things about her fellow stars, she maintained that the parts of the interview that the magazine had chosen to publish severely put her in a bad light. “I was so misquoted and so taken out of context, and it’s a sore subject for me,” she said.

“I don’t like to hurt anybody, I don’t like to hurt their feelings. I like to joke so I do that sometimes. What they wrote in that article hurt people,” she added.

Her statements came as a shock for both fans and Hollywood stars, who never thought she could be that haughty. Years after the interview, Lopez revealed how her statements at that time had given her a lot of notoriety and made a lot of people in the industry pissed off.

“I didn’t realize that my words could impact people that way,” she said. “You know, I was a nobody at that time, so I was still in that kind of fan mentality, back in the Bronx,” she added.