[Python] How to fix my requests.Response in Python and convert it to JSON?

I'm using requests.get to return a response and I'm trying to convert the response to JSON. When I try to use

json_data = json.loads(response.text)


(also tried response.json()), it throws an error:

Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)


When I check the response.text, I notice that the first line says:

OK:
elelemt1: null
element2: null
element3: null


Is it because the first line does not have a proper key:value pair as the others do?

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