Jennifer Lopez And The Difficult Relationship With Her Mother: "She Hit Me As A Child"

Jennifer Lopez was hit by her mother. To unveil the disturbing truth, this is the same pop star who evokes various aspects of her relationship with her mother in the Netflix documentary Halftime, which was released June 14 and focuses on her life Guadalupe Rodriguez.

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Jennifer Lopez and the difficult relationship with her mother: “She always hit me as a child”

“She did what was necessary to survive and that made her strong but also tough. He beat us to death,” Jennifer says in the documentary. Hard words, confirmed by the same woman, now grandmother of the twins Emme and Max. “Jennifer made me suffer the most, to tell the truth – Guadalupe explains –. We often bumped into each other. I was not a perfect mother, far from it, but I can say that I only ever had her interests in mind ».

Guadalupe Rodriguez, an immigrant from Puerto Rico, raised her three daughters, Jennifer, Lynda, and Leslie, with her husband, David, in Castle Hill, a New York neighborhood with a high concentration of immigrants and a fairly high crime rate. Despite the financial difficulties, he made sure that Jenny attended singing and dancing lessons at the age of five.

However, the family environment was close to the girl and so Jennifer left the house at the age of only 18 and after another argument with her mother and moved in alone. For the future singer, it would have been the beginning of a tough but scintillating career that has seen her on the roof of the world for 25 years.