Jennifer Lopez Displays On 1st Cut up From Ben Affleck – Hollywood Life

Jennifer Lopez, 53, talked lots about her husband Ben Affleck, 50, in a brand new interview, together with how she felt after they ended their engagement in 2004. “It was so painful after we broke up. As soon as we known as off that wedding ceremony 20 years in the past, it was the largest heartbreak of my life,” J.Lo instructed Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I actually felt like I used to be going to die. It despatched me on a spiral for the subsequent 18 years the place I simply couldn’t get it proper. However now, 20 years later, it does have a contented ending. It has probably the most would-never-happen-in-Hollywood ending,” she added.

J.Lo and Ben obtained again collectively in 2021, almost 20 years after their unique cut up, and so they formally obtained married in July. The singer’s 2023 album This Is Me… Now is a follow-up to her 2002 album This Is Me… Then, which featured her unique love songs about Ben. Reflecting on the couple’s unique cut up, J.Lo defined how tabloid tradition “destroyed” her relationship with the Oscar winner.

“We cherished one another. It was exhausting. It felt, at occasions, unfair, however neither one in every of us is that particular person to be like, woe is me,” the “Let’s Get Loud” singer shared. “So we had been like, nicely, we simply obtained to mud it off and hold it transferring. I feel, within the weirdest manner, that it motivated each of us to then change into and do the issues that we wound up doing, which goes into hyper-gear. He went into hyper-gear and I went into hyper-gear. However not collectively. We needed to do it individually.”

J.Lo revealed that she struggled with writing music till she obtained again along with Ben final 12 months. “When he got here again into my life, once more the identical factor occurred the place I felt so impressed and so overtaken with emotion that [the music] was simply pouring out of me,” she instructed Zane. The Hustlers star additionally mentioned that Ben nonetheless loves This Is Me…Then. “He loves that music. He is aware of all the phrases,” she mentioned. “It’s loopy. He additionally was with me whereas I used to be creating it.”

This Is Me…Now will characteristic the tune “Expensive Ben pt. ll”, in addition to “Midnight Journey to Vegas,” after their July 2022 nuptials in Sin Metropolis. J.Lo mentioned within the Apple Music interview that she needs her album to point out everybody that “real love does exist” in life.

“I wish to put that message out to the world. That does take lots of vulnerability, however I couldn’t cease myself,” she mentioned. “Components of it scare me and I feel elements of it scare Ben too. He’s like, ‘Do you actually wish to say all these items?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t understand how else to do it, child.’ “