Undoubtedly, for Jennifer Lopez, her current husband Ben Affleck is the love of her life. The actress and singer opened up in an interview and told how the greatest anguish she experienced was 20 years ago, when she separated from the actor, and that this led her to a great depression. Eventually the story had a happy ending and today he is her current husband.
Two decades ago, when Jennifer Lopez was deeply in love with Ben Affleck, she wrote her landmark album This is me… Sowhich was inspired by the movie star of Pearl Harborespecially in the song I’m happydedicated to him. However, a year after her release, she and Affleck, whom she has called “the love of my life,” called off their engagement.
“I wouldn’t even touch these records. It was very painful after we broke up” Lopez told Zane Lowe in an interview on Apple Music 1. “Once we called off that wedding 20 years ago, he was the biggest heartbreak of my life. Honestly, I felt like I was going to die.“.
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The artist detailed the drama this separation meant for her. “It sent me into a spiral for the next 18 years of not being able to do anything right.Lopez admitted. “But now, 20 years later, she has a happy ending. She has the most incredible ending that can happen in Hollywood. If you think about it, you say: ‘It was never going to happen. We won’t write it because no one would believe it’”.
the star of marry me she also shared what they discussed when she and Ben Affleck got back together in 2021. He told her, “‘You never performed the songs. you never have I’m happy. You’ve never done this or that‘. I gave him the reason. It was painful,” she explained.a part of me that I had to let go in order to move forward and survive. It was a survival tactic, surely.
According to the actress and singer, now that López and Affleck are in another more mature phase of their lives, they feel that everything is “much clearer” and that, moreover, they were meant to be together.
Though they felt the same way about each other 20 years ago, Lopez highlighted the difference with the present: “Now we know. And there’s no questions and there’s nothing like”Well, let’s see how it goes‘. Now it’s you and me. That’s all. All the way, all the way to the end. That’s all. It will be us.’”
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JLo added that when she and her husband hooked up again, they did so immediately they realized the love was still there and they didn’t want to waste any more time.
“We had our kids and we had to be very careful so they could share with us, because they didn’t live those years before,” Lopez explained. “And they tell us, ‘Wow, they’ve known each other forever‘. And this is all. We’ve known each other forever.”
Extensive in the analysis of her love story with her husband, she highlighted: “We had to go through these separate paths and we did other beautiful things and we had these incredible children. But once we meet again, full and complete enough and love each other enough, we were able to fend for ourselves completelyas would the Universe”.
While Jennifer Lopez’s rekindled romance with Ben Affleck brought her true love and happiness, it also gave the singer her “biggest fan.” This is me… So. He loves that music, he knows all the lyrics.”
She added, “He’s my biggest fan, which is great, and he supports me. When he came back into my life something similar happened. I felt so inspired and so overwhelmed by the emotion that was welling up in me that it happened again,” she said, referring to her upcoming album. This is me nowlinked to this new stage in his life.
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