Earlier this week we learned from a new interview published on the newly launched website The Daily Beast that Jennifer Lopez had reportedly suffered a “nervous breakdown” earlier this year after the birth of her twins this past Spring. It turns out that J. Lo is totally pissed at this assertion and is now considering legal action against the site for publishing the story:

Jennifer Lopez is reportedly taking legal action against a website that claimed she had suffered a nervous breakdown. Elle writer Kevin Sessums released extracts of an interview with the singer to The Daily Beast after Jen made it known that she didn’t want her comments to appear in the glossy woman’s magazine. Jen’s rep says, “We’re very unhappy about it, and think it was poor judgement on his [Sessums] part. As long as we have represented Jennifer, we have never heard her refer to having a breakdown of any sort.” The website retaliated in Sessums’ defence, telling Hollywood Access: “The story accurately reports what Kevin Sessums learned from Ms Lopez in his interview. He owns the story and The Daily Beast was happy to publish it.” Jen’s team have reportedly sent a legal letter to the website.

HMM … it sounds to me like J. Lo opened up to this interviewer who she thought was working expressly for Elle magazine and then, in retrospect, thought better about a few of her revelations and insisted they not be published … in Elle magazine. Because the interviewer owns the story, he was able to publish the parts of the interview that did not appear in Elle on The Daily Beast. The interviewer, Kevin Sessums, does quote Jennifer as saying, “There was a time when I was very overworked and I was doing music and movies and so many things. I was suffering from a lack of sleep. And I did have a kind of nervous breakdown.” My guess is that Sessums has the whole thing on tape which means that a lawsuit by the Lopez camp prolly won’t stick. Tho, this incident will prolly keep J. Lo from opening up too much any future interviewers as a result. I also doubt she’ll ever talk to Sessums again. I’m not sure if it was worth burning bridges just to publish these revelations but what’s done is done. I wonder if he has any other juicy off-the-record tid bits to share from other interviews he might have done over the years.

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