Enrique Iglesias dropped his emotional “Hero” music video in 2001, which additionally starred Jennifer Love Hewitt and Mickey Rourke, nevertheless it seems that his tears had been extra actual than followers knew.

Hewitt instructed Leisure Tonight concerning the real-life tragedy that impressed Iglesias’ sobs.

“The craziest factor about that video shoot that I do not know if individuals know is that Enrique and Aaliyah had been shut buddies. The night time that we filmed that video was the night time that she handed,” the actress revealed.

“Enrique needed to movie all of his crying stuff within the video… and he was actually crying as a result of she had handed,” Hewitt continued.

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“All of us did an enormous prayer for her on the finish of the video and he type of devoted it to her. I simply do not forget that being actually intense,” she shared.

Iglesias has seemingly by no means mentioned his friendship with the “Rock the Boat” singer publicly, however per Complicated, Aaliyah was pictured at his album launch social gathering in 1999.

Tragically, the progressive R&B star handed away in a aircraft crash after filming a music video within the Bahamas in Aug. 2001.

The “We Want a Decision” singer was solely 22 years previous.

In an interview with ET, in 2021 Aaliyah’s former boyfriend Damon Sprint shed extra gentle on the singer’s closing days on the twentieth anniversary of her premature loss of life.

“She was particular person and she or he was actually into being round good individuals, so, I knew I used to be cool ‘trigger she mentioned so. ‘Trigger she was the best, you understand what I am saying?” the music mogul mentioned.

In accordance with Individuals, Sprint additionally revealed that Aaliyah at all times had a concern of flying and was provided a special aircraft by rock star Lenny Kravitz, however her music video director took it as a substitute.

Members of Aaliyah’s crew that had been additionally tragically killed had been Scott Gallin, Keith Wallace, Douglas Kratz, make-up artist Eric Foreman, Gina Smith and Christopher Maldonado.

L. Marael, the pilot of the ill-fated aircraft, additionally died.