Jennifer Lopez: My mom ‘beat the s–t’ out of me as a child

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Netflix documentary, “Halftime,” saying in a scene: “She [Rodriguez] did what she had to do to survive, and it made her strong, but it also made her tough.

She beat the s–t out of you.”Rodriquez, 76, also appears in the film, admitting she was hard on Lopez and her two sisters, Leslie and Lynda.

The matriarch — who immigrated from Puerto Rico — raised her three daughters in the Bronx alongside her husband David, whom she divorced once the girls were grown up. “I always had the highest expectations of them.

It wasn’t to be critical. It was only to show you that you could do better,” Rodriguez is seen saying in the movie. “Jennifer, she gave me the hardest time, to tell you the truth.