The star was interrupted several times by the roaring crowd, which included beaming boyfriend Ben Affleck, who stood as he clapped, his son Samuel and Lopez's daughter Emme. The singer and actress was presented this year's Icon Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards Tuesday night, and took the opportunity to offer a heartfelt thank you to her fans.
"I appreciate this so much, so very, very much," a smiling Lopez, 52, told the crowd. "I wish I could tell you that awards were the most important to me, but that's not true. And don't think that I don't appreciate the shiny, sparkly things, because I do! I cannot lie, everybody knows that I do. But this isn't why I do this. It's not what matters most to me. I really do it for you guys."
"Because of you, I get to do what I love the most in life and that is the most wonderful blessing," Lopez continued. "That's a gift that you give me and I just want to say thank you for that. Thank you to everyone who comes to a show, streams a song, sees a movie, follows me. You guys are the ones who give me the opportunity every day to live a life I couldn't even imagine would come true when I was a little girl growing up in the Bronx."
She continued: "You did that for me. You made that dream come true. I'm shaking! And I will always be grateful to each and every one of you for that. And I will never forget it, and I will never, ever take it for granted. So I want to say thank you to every one of you for believing in me when other people didn't, even when I didn't. Thank you for teaching me who I really am."
To wrap up her emotional speech, the Marry Me star offered her own acronym for the word "icon," which she said stood for "I can overcome negativity."
"Let me tell you something else," she concluded. "I'm just getting started."
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