Jennifer Lopez Talks About Her Painful Divorce From Marc Anthony

Jennifer Lopez is getting loud about her and Marc Anthony’s breakup.  

The “On The Floor” hitmaker—who shares 18-year-old twins Max and Emme with the “Vivir Mi Vida” singer—opened up about the difficult period of her life following the former couple’s split.

“After my third divorce, that’s when I really started getting good at it,” Jennifer quipped in a video shared by @jpasc24 on Instagram Mar. 7 during a performance for her Las Vegas residency. “Seriously, that’s not funny. That’s not funny.”

“It was actually a really tough time,” she continued. “I was really about to give up on it all. I mean, I was a single mom with two 3-year-old twins and I called up one of my mentors. Her name was Louise Hay. Some of you might know who she was. She passed away.”

“She said to me, ‘Jennifer, you’re a dancer, right?’” the 56-year-old—who was married to Marc from 2004 until their divorce was finalized in 2014—recalled. “I said, ‘Yes, I am.’ And she said, ‘When you’re learning a dance, and you get the steps wrong, what do you do?’ I said, ‘I just keep going until I get the steps right.’ And she said, ‘That’s right, Jennifer. Always keep dancing.'”

Passing along that same message to her fans, J.Lo encouraged the audience to live by her motto.