Jennifer Lopez: I'd Send Max & Emme to Scientology School

October 7, 2008

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The new mother of twins Max and Emme talks about Scientology ("the technologies that they have are very helpful") and how she suffered a "nervous breakdown" in an interview that appears on the new Web site Daily Beast. The interview was initially supposed to run in a fashion magazine, but Jen later regretted some of her comments and asked that the story not be published.

J.Lo, who — along with hubby Marc Anthony — pals around with many Scientologists like Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Leah Remini confirms that her father has practiced the controversial religion for over 20 years.

"No," Jen said when asked if she considers herself a Scientologist. "I wouldn't have a problem saying [I was] because I know what it is. I have no problems with it and it really actually bothers me that people have such a negative feeling towards it... I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful."

So helpful in fact that Jen says she'd consider sending her kids, who were born in February, to a Scientology school.

"Yeah," said J.Lo "I wouldn't mind. Not at all. Because I know that the technologies that they have are very helpful... It's all about communication. That's the thing I really don't like about talking about this. I do know so many great people who do do it, who choose it as a lifestyle and really follow it and it is their religion... I just wish that people wouldn't judge it without knowing what it is."

She also discussed having what she calls a "nervous breakdown" while working on the set of the 2002 movie Enough. She says she was overworked, overtired and she just shutdown, saying to herself over and over "I'm not weak."

"I was like, 'I don't want to move. I don't want to talk. I don't want to do anything.'" she recalled. "I had a nervous breakdown."

Her bodyguard ushered her off the set and took her to a doctor, who told her she was sleep deprived and told her to go home, get in bed and sleep all weekend. "[The doctor] told me to go back to work on Monday after a weekend of sleeping because if I waited longer that I would only get more panicked about working. So that's what I did. I've still never been to a shrink. I'm not a shrinky person."