‘Heartsick’ Jennifer Lopez Cancels Ambitious Stadium Tour

Jennifer Lopez, the polymath whose performing, directing, and musical aspirations have been on overdrive in 2024, is lastly taking a break. After a 12 months that noticed the discharge of her self-financed Amazon film/visible album This Is Me…Now: A Love Story and its accompanying documentary/doc of her marriage to Ben Affleck, The Biggest Love Story By no means Instructed, the star has referred to as off the third a part of the “That is Me” plan. In a press release posted to her web site Friday, Lopez introduced that the multi-city live performance tour, which was most just lately titled “This Is Me… Stay,” has been canceled, and direct ticket purchasers can be absolutely refunded.

After tapping on an “Essential Announcement” hyperlink, guests to onthejlo.com are capable of view a message studying “Representatives for Stay Nation introduced as we speak that the Jennifer Lopez US Summer time 2024 Tour ‘THIS IS ME…LIVE’ is canceled, citing … ‘Jennifer is taking day without work to be along with her kids, household and shut pals.'”

“For individuals who bought by way of Ticketmaster, tickets will mechanically be refunded – there’s nothing additional followers have to do,” the announcement continued. “For individuals who bought by way of third-party resale websites reminiscent of SeatGeek, StubHub, VividSeats, and many others. – please attain out to your level buy for extra particulars.”

Through a separate button entitled “Particular Message,” web site guests have been instructed “I’m fully heartsick and devastated about letting you down. Please know that I wouldn’t do that if I didn’t really feel that it was completely crucial,”

The message, which is presumably written in Lopez’s voice, continues: “I promise I’ll make it as much as you and we’ll all be collectively once more. I like you all a lot. Till subsequent time…”

Pundits have been fast to hyperlink the point out of time with household to ongoing hypothesis in regards to the state of the Affleck/Lopez union. The couple has solely been seen collectively a number of occasions in latest months, and at a media occasion to advertise Atlas, Lopez’s just lately launched Netflix movie, a query in regards to the couple’s less-than-two-year-old marriage was met with rebukes.

“Is your divorce with Ben Affleck actual?” requested a reporter at a Mexico Metropolis occasion to advertise the streaming sci-fi movie, which has a brutal 19 p.c rating on vital website Rotten Tomatoes.

“These rumors?” the reporter continued. “What’s the reality?” Earlier than Lopez might reply, co-star Simu Liu jumped into the fray, snapping “Okay, we’re not doing that.”

Lopez adopted up with chiding phrases of her personal, saying, “You recognize higher than that,” to the up to now unnamed reporter.

Provided that and the avalanche of headlines dissecting physique language, wedding ceremony ring placement, and the couple’s particular person appearances, many assumed that relationship ills have been the reason for the tour cancellation. However it’s value noting that the tour has been struggling for months: in March, again when the live performance collection was referred to as “This Is Me… Now,” weak ticket gross sales prompted cancellations of stops in Cleveland, Nashville, Raleigh, Atlanta, Tampa, New Orleans, and Houston, Selection reported on the time.

Important numbers of tickets to the tour’s remaining 30 exhibits remained unsold as of early April, and later that month, the tour’s identify was quietly modified to “This Is Me… Stay | The Biggest Hits.”

In response to Selection, “sources near Lopez insisted that the tour was not being canceled as a result of poor ticket gross sales,” however didn’t specify a unique motive, and representatives for Lopez haven’t responded to Vainness Truthful‘s request for remark as of publication time. A take a look at seating charts from a pattern of the deliberate tour dates between June and August confirmed a notable variety of out there seats as of Friday, Could 31.

Whatever the motive, the cancellation is a muffled finish to what started as a splashy “surrealistic magical odyssey” that value Lopez no less than $20 million to mount. However as VF‘s Richard Lawson famous in his overview of the movie model of This Is Me… Now, if nothing else, the film underscores that “Lopez’s true calling is as however a humble film star.” Maybe the gross sales for her deliberate tour satisfied the actor/dancer/entrepreneur of that, too.