Jennifer Lopez revealed she was warned off of doing “American Idol” by her advisers, but she decided to do it anyway and saw a career resurgence.
Jennifer Lopez doesn’t consider herself a risk-taker, but someone who is confident in her decisions.
In her interview with Nikki Glaser in Interview magazine, Lopez revealed that she was warned by her team that being a judge on “American Idol” would kill her movie career.
“I’d done all these big movies and made these albums and now they’re asking me to do reality TV”, Lopez said. “I’ve had kids and I haven’t worked for a couple of years. ‘American Idol’ was a big show at the time.”
She said her decision-making process “really comes down to, what do I think I can bring to something?”
But “all of my advisers were like, ‘Don’t do this, you’re going to be reduced to just a reality star.’”
Lopez served as a judge a total of five seasons on the show, first in 2011 for the show’s 10th season, replacing Simon Cowell.
