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Jennifer Lopez has opened up about her decision to cancel the entirety of her summer 2024 tour, which was tied to the release of her 2024 album This Is Me… Now.
While the This Is Me… Live tour was set to be Jennifer Lopez’s first tour in five years, she first had to cancel tour dates in Cleveland, Nashville, Raleigh, Atlanta, Tampa, New Orleans, and Houston due to low ticket sales, before eventually axing the whole thing in May.
Appearing on the Friday, November 8 episode of The Graham Norton Show, Lopez said that she canceled the tour in order to spend time with her family, according to The Daily Mail.
“I took the summer off to be home with the kids, which is the best thing I have ever done. It was not like me to do that, so I always want to apologize to the fans,” Lopez said.
While that’s the reason that Lopez gave at the time of the tour’s cancellation, the pop star was also forced to cancel specific dates due to low ticket sales prior to axing the entire summer tour.
In Lopez’s defense, though, she did go through a highly-publicized divorce this year, the fourth divorce of her life. Complicating that is the fact that reports indicate she developed a particularly close relationship with Affleck’s daughter Violet, whom he had with Jennifer Garner in 2005.
Lopez was on The Graham Norton Show, essentially the UK’s Tonight Show/Late Show, to promote her upcoming film Unstoppable, a biopic about one-legged former NCAA champion wrestler Anthony Robles.
Unstoppable, which will have a limited theatrical run beginning on December 6, stars Jharrel Jerome as Robles alongside Lopez, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, and Don Cheadle. The film was produced by Ben Affleck’s production company Artists Equity, which he co-founded with lifelong friend Matt Damon.