Jennifer Lopez: no handbook for rich and famous

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2007

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Actress Jennifer Lopez said Wednesday that only time can show the path through the thicket of fame, alluding to a recent spate of young Hollywood actresses on the wrong side of the law.

"Nobody has a handbook for fame. It's no easy thing to deal with," Lopez said in a Beverly Hills hotel, where she and her husband, Marc Anthony, spoke to reporters about their film "The Singer," a biopic about Puerto Rican salsa singer Hector Lavoe, to be released Friday.

"You've got to have good people around you," said Lopez, a New Yorker of Puerto Rican origin, who came to depend on her family in difficult times.

"When I sat down for a second and ... had a mature thought about it, I realized it was my responsibility if I didn't want it to be that way,"...