MTV Movie and TV Awards 2022: Jennifer Lopez tearfully thanks haters and gives Ben Affleck rare shout-out in emotional speech
metro.co.ukJennifer Lopez gave a ‘different kind’ of speech as she picked up the generation award at the MTV Movie and TV Awards 2022.The 52-year-old was celebrated on Sunday night for her incredible career from a musician to a big screen icon.Taking to the stage at the Barker Hanger in LA, the Marry Me actress broke down while taking a moment to thank those who told her that she wouldn’t ever be successful, over the course of her life.‘I look at those movies and I see all the wonderful people that I’ve been blessed to know and to work with,’ she told the star-studded audience. ‘You’re only as good as the people that you work with.‘If you’re lucky, they make you better.
And I have been very lucky in that regard. As an actor, I’m not any of the women that I’ve played, but there’s a part of what is deeply true to me in each one of those characters.‘And since you cannot create truth unless you’ve really lived it, I have a different kind of list of thank-yous tonight.
I want to thank all the people who gave me this life. I want to thank the people who gave me joy, and the ones who broke my heart.’‘The ones who were true and the ones who lied to me.
I want to thank true love,’ she continued, becoming emotional. ‘And I want to thank the way that I lied to myself, because that’s how I knew that I had to grow. ‘I want to thank disappointment and failure for teaching me to be strong and my children for teaching me to love. ‘I want to thank all the people who told me to my face, or when I wasn’t in the room, that I couldn’t do this.
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