Jennifer Lopez suffers nasty face injury after accident on stage

Daily Mail​

14-05-2025

Jennifer Lopez 's plans to host the American Music Awards almost went up in smoke after she suffered a potentially career-altering injury.
On Tuesday, the 55-year-old singer and actress revealed in an Instagram Stories post that she had injured her face in the course of rehearsals for the upcoming awards ceremony.
The injury was severe enough to require stitches, but Jennifer was in luck, as the celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Jason Diamond was on hand to take care of her.
Jennifer — whose ex-boyfriend Diddy is currently on trial in federal court on racketeering and sex-trafficking charges — first broke the news cryptically with a closeup of her face showing her holding an ice pack over her red nose and eye.
'So this happened,' she wrote.
In a follow-up snap, she clarified the extent of her injury and said it happened 'During @amas rehearsals.'
The second closeup showed her sans ice pack and with a bloody gash just above the bridge of her nose and slightly to the side.
Her red nose also appeared to be swollen after the injury, and she was dressed casually in gray sweats after a day of performing behind the scenes.
While an injury to her face could prove to be devastating for her hosting gig — as well as her career in general — she got some help from a popular medical provider in the nick of time.
A third post on Tuesday revealed that the rehearsal mishap had happened a week earlier, and J.Lo show that she was almost completely healed.
The Hustlers star showed off a soft smile as she posed for a photo next to Dr. Jason Diamond, the Beverly Hills–based facial plastic surgeon who was one of the former stars of the reality series Dr. 90210.
Diamond, who wore a T-shirt advertising some of his products, beamed next to Lopez as she showed off his handiwork.
She appeared to have some mild discoloration over her nose where the gash had been, but for the most part she looked like her old self, and with nearly two more weeks to heal before the broadcast.
'Thank you for stitching me up Dr. Diamond,' she wrote in her caption. 'A week later and a whole lotta ice, I'm good as new.'
Last month, it was announced that Jennifer would be returning to host the AMAs a decade after she last helmed the awards show.
'We are thrilled to welcome Jennifer Lopez back to host the American Music Awards,' Jay Penske, the CEO of Dick Clark Productions, said at the time via a press release. 'Jennifer's incredible talent and incomparable stage presence make her the ideal host of the show. We know she will bring her one-of-a-kind energy to the official kick off celebration of summer.'
The If You Had My Love singer has been a performer at the AMAs more that ten times in the past after making her debut at the 2001 ceremony.
The AMAs will be broadcast on Memorial Day — Monday, May 26 — and are being broadcast from the new Fontainebleau luxury resort in Las Vegas. The ceremony will air on CBS beginning at 8 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. PDT, as well as on the Paramount+ streaming service in the US.
Tickets to attend the ceremony in-person at the Fontainebleau are also still available on Ticketmaster.