Jennifer Lopez The emotion of the last year seemed to get too much for Jennifer Lopez as she broke down in tears while performing on stage on Saturday night. And now, photographs have emerged of the emotional moment the 42-year-old star teared up, after performing a rendition of new song One Love. The star has sought to explain why she became emotional in front of the packed auditorium, revealing she reacted to the sympathetic atmosphere in the crowd. 'You know what it was? I was standing there and I realised that I did bear a little bit of my thoughts in this song and I acted it out kind of for the audience,' she later said. 'And the way they received it was very touching. I think that they felt what I felt, which was that I'm just a girl like everyone else.' With her hair pulled back and wearing a sparkling costume, the star seemed quite overcome, holding a hand to her chest and looking out over the crowd. 'I'm going to sing you the last song I wrote about love. A lot has changed since then,' she told the crowd. 'We wanted to do a section of the show that talked about love,' she added to Extra of the performance. 'And through it, I go through all the different moments of my life. 'At the end of the day it's a journey. It's about love, It's about loving yourself,' she said. 'The audience saw me being open so they saw it was a regular person like everybody else. I have feelings like everybody else. 'My life gets great and gets not so great sometimes,' she admitted. 'It is what it is.' The star also acknowledged she became more emotional when she spotted her mother in the audience, and when she performed song Until It Beats No More. 'I didn't see her the whole time until this one moment, and I was a bit emotional,' she explained adding that 'The song reminds me of my babies. It always did.' 'My mom, my family - they are there during the hard times. The babies - I'm strong for them.' The show also saw a cavalcade of potentially emotional moments for the star when dancers recreated her important relationships while she sang. At one point a P. Diddy double danced with the female dancer wearing a copy of her infamous slit-down-to-the navel Versace gown, while a ringer for her ex-husband Cris Judd danced with a paired down Lopez-a-like in jeans. Another doppelganger was wearing the mint green gown she wore to the Oscars with fianc? Ben Affleck as she twirled with a square-jawed replica of The Town star. But the most dazzling pairing came from the twosome reliving Lopez and Marc Anthony's American Idol performance from May, only weeks before they announced the end of their marriage.