It’s difficult to imagine Jennifer Lopez going to Target without getting recognized, but long ago, the Bronx native was not famous. She recently recalled the first time a stranger recognized her in public—and how it totally freaked her out.

It happened after the 1997 release of Selena, in which J.Lo starred as the titular Queen of Tejano Music. “I remember walking down the street that first time and somebody calling my name and [me] thinking it was somebody who knew me,” Lopez said in a new interview with Variety. “And I turned around and I didn’t know them.”