crying during one therapy session experience.

first of all, I apologize but English is not my first language and I'm from Italy if that helps, so I'm sorry of there's a few grammatical errors ahah.

I was in a really bad spot psychologically a few years back, I lost my job and the girl I wanted to spend the rest of my time with so I got myself a therapist when I was encouraged to do so. I remember one time, during a therapy session with my therapist, we were chatting about me, some recent events and stuff, but one of his questions stuck out to me more than others: "tell me what you like about yourself" (keep in mind that my self-esteem was at an all time low), that's shit really left me feeling empty, I didn't know what to say, there wasn't anything I liked about myself, I hated myself more than anything. I didn't say a single word, I could feel my eyes filling up with tears, my vision getting blurry, I was trying not to cry but ultimately shed a few years and apologized profusely. I just wanted to know, did some of you have a similar experience? is crying during a session normal?