Jennifer Lopez was warned she’d be ‘reduced to just a reality star’ if she did ‘American Idol’

Jennifer Lopez doesn’t see herself a risk-taker, but idiosyncratic who is assured successful her decisions.

In her interrogation with Nikki Glaser successful Interview magazine, Lopez revealed that she was warned by her squad that being a justice connected "American Idol" would termination her movie career.

"I’d done each these large movies and made these albums and present they’re asking maine to bash world TV," Lopez said. "I’ve had kids and I haven’t worked for a mates of years. ‘American Idol’ was a large amusement astatine the time." 

She said her decision-making process "really comes down to, what bash I deliberation I tin bring to something?" 

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Jennifer Lopez said she was warned disconnected doing "American Idol" due to the fact that it would extremity her movie career. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

But "all of my advisers were like, ‘Don’t bash this, you’re going to beryllium reduced to conscionable a world star.’"

Lopez served arsenic a judge a full of 5 seasons connected the show, archetypal successful 2011 for the show’s 10th season, replacing Simon Cowell.  She returned the adjacent twelvemonth for play 11, and again successful 2014 for the adjacent 3 seasons.

"It was looked down upon," the "Hustlers" prima recalled, adding she had been told "Don’t bash that oregon cipher volition ever prosecute you for a movie ever again." 

"And I was conscionable like, ‘No. I don’t deliberation that’s what’s going to happen. I deliberation I person thing to contribute.’ I emotion euphony and I emotion mentoring people, and I wanted to stock the things that I knew astir the business. So it became much about, ‘What bash I deliberation I tin bash with this?’"

Lopez joined Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson arsenic a justice connected "American Idol" successful 2011. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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After her archetypal 2 seasons, Billboard called her quality connected the amusement "the astir awesome reality-TV-based rejuvenation of a euphony vocation ever." 

"When I’m choosing things, adjacent if they look similar not the champion thought to everybody else, if I consciousness it successful my gut that it’s the close happening to do, cipher tin speech maine retired of it," Lopez told Interview.

"…all of my advisers were like, ‘Don’t bash this, you’re going to beryllium reduced to conscionable a world star.’"

The "Love Don’t Cost a Thing" vocalist besides launched a Las Vegas amusement aft her appearances connected "Idol," different determination she was warned about. 

"It’s the aforesaid happening erstwhile I went to Vegas. They were like, ‘That’s wherever entertainers spell to die.’ And I was like, ‘No.’ And it launched maine into a full caller portion of my life."

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She continued, "I cognize what I could do. I cognize the benignant of amusement that I’m going to marque successful Vegas, and I cognize that we’re going to invitation each these radical and everybody’s going to come, radical who would person ne'er bought a summons to 1 of my tours. And each of that, small by little, starts gathering a caller momentum. If they connection you the biggest happening successful the satellite and you’re like, ‘I don’t deliberation I person thing to connection to this,’ past you person to go, ‘This is not for me. I can’t bash it.’"

Lopez said she has turned down offers that didn’t consciousness right, adjacent erstwhile she was pressured to bash them.

Lopez said she's turned down projects that she doesn't consciousness she tin adhd thing to. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

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"There’s been movies similar that. Sometimes they’ll connection you tons of wealth to bash a commercialized oregon a backstage show, and you’re conscionable like, ‘No.’ They’re like, ‘Please bash it! We each privation the commission!’ And I’m like, ‘I can’t bash that.’"