07/13/2012 16:33

By Gina Serpe

Another one bites the dust. Just a day after Steven Tyler confirmed that he was leaving American Idol after two seasons, Jennifer Lopez confirmed to Ryan Seacrest that she, too, would not be returning to the Fox reality juggernaut.

She's been hinting as much all week, so it's hardly the bombshell that the Aerosmith frontman dropped, but she nevertheless tearfully announced her departure on her former coworker's radio show this morning.

"Something had to give, something has to give," she began. "I was really dreading this phone call with you."

"I honestly feel the time has come that I have to get back to doing the other things that you do, and you have to pay attention to that, too. I could keep doing Idol for the rest of my life, but that would be giving up a bunch of other things. I feel like we had an amazing run."