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Jennifer Lopez teared up on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week previewing twins Max and Emme’s high school graduation, saying she has been crying for two months.
Jennifer Lopez spent her Wednesday Jimmy Kimmel Live appearance fighting back tears about her twins’ high school graduation. The singer told Jimmy Kimmel she has been “crying for two months” in anticipation of the ceremony, which sends both 18-year-olds toward college dorms in different cities.
Page Six caught the segment. The outlet’s writeup of Lopez’s late-night interview and the yearbook-note moment she said took her two days to write reports that the conversation began with Lopez asking Kimmel not to bring up the graduation at all, then telling him she had cried writing each twin’s high school yearbook note.
The twins are heading in different directions. Lopez told Kimmel that her son Max and Emme are going to different colleges, an arrangement she said she is “fine” with because she wants “them to be happy and go where they want to go and do what they want to do.”
Her dorm theory was hopeful. Lopez told Kimmel that the twins will pack up their bedrooms at her home before heading to school, then “realize that their dorms are too small and they’re going to miss home” enough to come back often.
The empty-nest framing was warmer than expected. “All year people were asking me, ‘They’re going away to college, is it going to be terrible?’ I’m like, ‘No. It’s going to be great,'” Lopez said. “They have big dreams it’s going to be great.”
The biographical context is a marriage that ended in 2014. Wikipedia’s profile of Lopez’s career and her 2004-2014 marriage to Marc Anthony, with whom she had Max and Emme in 2008 notes that the twins were born in 2008 and that Lopez and Marc Anthony divorced in 2014.
Lopez has spent recent years reframing her parenting. The singer told The Howard Stern Show last year that her twins, then around age 10, had told her during the COVID-19 pandemic that she was “not a regular mom” because she did not do school drop-offs and pickups like other parents.
That conversation reshaped her schedule. Lopez said the talk made her “realize how much they needed me there,” with the past several years showing a clearer pattern of public appearances built around her kids’ calendar.
Emme’s public profile has its own history. The Mirror’s archive coverage of an earlier Dodgers Foundation Blue Diamond Gala duet and Lopez’s use of gender-neutral pronouns when introducing Emme on stage tracks how the singer publicly began using they/them pronouns when introducing her child at a charity performance several years ago.
That duet was a Christina Perri cover. Lopez and Emme performed Christina Perri‘s “A Thousand Years” at the gala, with the singer calling the teen her “favorite duet partner.”
The previous twin-on-stage moment had been the 2020 Super Bowl. Emme joined Lopez during her Pepsi Halftime Show appearance, performing alongside Shakira at the same event.
The Wednesday interview previewed an emotional weekend. The ceremony itself was set for the end of this week, with Lopez framing it as a “milestone” she expected to need tissues for.
For Lopez, the year is now framed around the empty-nest transition. The singer’s 2026 schedule, following the Kiss of the Spider Woman supporting role she finished last year, sits inside a year where the personal mile-markers have outpaced the professional ones.
Whether Max and Emme come home for fall break the way Lopez is hoping is a question Thanksgiving will answer. For now, the twins have a stage to walk across and a mother who has been rehearsing her tears for two months.
