“It was really brutal“. Even if she seems to have completely digested it since their reunion in 2021, Jennifer Lopez still remembers her breakup with Ben Affleck in 2004. At the time, the couple is happy and engaged. Each is at the top of their careers , Jennifer even having her lover play in one of her most famous clips, Jenny from the Block. But now, the media are starting to get involved.
“It’s funny, because Ben and I were together and we were so in love! It was one of the happiest times of my life. But there was everything going on outside, we were being criticized and it really destroyed our relationship“, she confided with hindsight to the magazine RollingStone. Still marked today by these difficult comments, she still remembers perfectly what had saddened her the most.
A sketch of Conan O’Brien making fun of their couple, referring to her as “the cleaning lady“and actor like”the intern in production particularly shocked her, as did an episode of South Park in which she was called the “nasty bitch“. She still remembers today how she felt.”It was brutal, it was a moment in my life that I had to bury deep in order to move forward and return to my profession.“.
Fortunately today, the couple found themselves making a clean sweep of the mistakes of the past. “We were just too young then to understand what is ultimately most important in life.“. A few months ago, on Howard Stern’s show, Ben Affleck had totally agreed with him: “I’d say that’s about 50% of what destroyed our relationship” he had said.
“The idea that people hate you and they hate you together and being together is a poison, ugly and toxic, that none of us want to be a part of. Who would like to invite them to dinner? And what do they do together?Fortunately today, the 52-year-old singer and actress and the director ofArgo are more than ever happy together and are once again living a beautiful love story.
Without forgetting their blended family: with her ex-husband Marc Anthony, met in 2004, Jennifer Lopez became the mother of twins in 2008, Max and Emme, before divorcing in 2014. Ben Affleck, meanwhile, had a great story with actress Jennifer Garner. Both had three children, Violet, 17, Seraphina, 13 and Samuel, 10.