Lopez opened up about the experience during an appearance on the 'SmartLess' podcast on Monday, June 15
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NEED TO KNOW
- Jennifer Lopez recalled the moment a large cricket landed on her mid-performance
- The incident occurred in 2025 during Lopez’s tour stop in Almaty, Kazakhstan
- The “On the Floor” singer recounted the incident as “kind of horrible” during an appearance on the SmartLess podcast Monday, June 15
Jennifer Lopez is speaking out about the viral moment from the summer of 2025 when a large cricket landed on her mid-performance.
Lopez, 56, spoke about the incident on the SmartLess podcast co-hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett on Monday, June 15. She recalled singing a song in Spanish when the unexpected visitor landed on her neck in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
"It was like the slow moment in the show, you know," the "On the Floor" singer said. "Usually, I'm dancing around and doing the choreography and like a f—–g bikini and a g-string and whipping my hair around and it's a good time."
She recalled it being "really quiet" with "just a spotlight" on her and that she had been seeing "little bugs" throughout the night.
"And so everything is dark except for me and I'm singing," Lopez continued. "And as I'm singing, the audience starts screaming. And usually they do react in this moment because I stop and it's a slow song."
The Office Romance star remembered a choreographed "dramatic pause" during the song where fans occasionally applaud her, but was caught off guard by "a lot of screaming."
"I was like, 'what's happening?'" she said. "And I'm just there and this huge bug is just crawling up my neck and I feel it."
She recalled that she "stayed really still" to finish the last line of the song before she could react to the large insect. Lopez joked that the bug was so big it looked like a helicopter when it eventually flew toward the light.
"But that was crazy, it was kind of horrible," Lopez added. "Like if I would have known it was that, I probably [would have been] screaming and yelling."
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The insect incident occurred during an August 2025 show on Lopez's Up All Night: Live in 2025 tour.
"It was tickling me," a smiling Lopez said to fans in front of her at the time, before continuing to perform.
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In video footage of the moment shared online by Lopez's official fan account, the caption joked, "Plot twist: @JLo just started rehearsals for Kiss of the Cricket Woman … on stage … in real time. 😂💋🦗."
The "Kiss of the Cricket Woman" mention was a play on Lopez's 2025 film Kiss of the Spider Woman, an updated adaptation of the 1993 Broadway musical.
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