Jennifer Lopez

‘Haunts me’: Jennifer Lopez confesses huge career regret

Source: News Corp Australia Network:
October 16, 2025 at 11:19

Jennifer Lopez has opened up about the biggest regret in her career, revealing once choice still haunts her to this day.


Jennifer Lopez has revealed the biggest regret in her lengthy career, and it’s one that she claims “still haunts her” to this day.

During an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Lopez revealed that role she turned down a movie that eventually went on to secure a rival actress an Oscar nomination, something she has dreamt of her entire career.

“Adrian Lyne offered me Unfaithful,” Lopez confirmed, citing the filmmaker’s 2002 steamy thriller starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane that followed the unraveling of a suburban couple’s marriage when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

 

Jennifer Lopez appears on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show. Picture: Getty.
Jennifer Lopez appears on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show. Picture: Getty.

 

When Stern asked Lopez why she turned it down, Lopez, whose the following year chose to star in notorious flop Gigli, told the radio host: “The script wasn’t good.”

But despite the script, she added, Lyne “made it great.”

“Is that hard to live with?” Stern asked about Lane’s Oscar nod to which she responded: “It’s funny. It haunts me. It haunts me a little bit. It’s like the one that I turned down that it was just like, ‘Why did you turn down working with Adrian Lyne? What were you thinking?’ I didn’t even know what the hell was going on in my mind at the time. Who knows what was going on with me at the time.”

 

Olivier Martinez and Diane Lane in the 2002 thriller. Picture: Supplied.
Olivier Martinez and Diane Lane in the 2002 thriller. Picture: Supplied.

 

Lopez later went on to get Oscar buzz for her role in Hustlers, however a nomination failed to materialise. She’s once again in conversation this year too, this time for her supporting turn in Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman.

During the same interview, Lopez delivered a blow to her exes when asked if she’s ever “truly been loved” and she point-blank replied, “No.”

“What I learned, it’s not that I’m not loveable – it’s that they’re not capable,” the 56-year-old told the shock jock. “They don’t have it in them.”

“And they gave me what they had. They gave me all of it, every time. All the rings, all the things I could ever want. The houses, the rings, the marriage. All of it. But…”

Lopez has been married four times, and had one failed engagement to former baseball star Alex Rodriguez.

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