Jennifer Lopez Shares How Her ‘Largest Heartbreak’ (Ben Affleck, Of Course) Impacted Her Profession

In a candid new interview with Jennifer Lopez, the “If You Had My Love” hitmaker opened up on how the largest heartbreak of her life led to a cheerful ending in her love story with husband Ben Affleck.

20 years in the past, when Lopez was deeply in love with Affleck, she penned her landmark album This Is Me…Then, which was impressed by the “Pearl Harbor” motion pictures star- particularly the monitor “I’m Glad”- nevertheless, a yr after its launch she and Affleck, whom she referred to as the “love of my life,” broke off their engagement.

“I wouldn’t even carry out these information. It was so painful after we broke up,” Lopez informed Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. “As soon as we referred to as off that marriage ceremony 20 years in the past, it was the largest heartbreak of my life. I truthfully felt like I used to be going to die.

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“It despatched me on a spiral for the following 18 years the place I simply couldn’t get it proper,” she admitted. “However now, 20 years later, it does have a cheerful ending. It has essentially the most would-never-happen-in-Hollywood ending. ‘That may by no means occur. We’re not going to put in writing that as a result of no one would imagine it’ ending.”

The “Marry Me” star shared that when she and Affleck received again collectively in 2021, he was like “‘You by no means carried out the songs. You by no means did ‘I’m Glad’. You by no means did this. You by no means did that.’ I used to be like, ‘You’re proper. It was painful.’ It was part of me then that I needed to put away to maneuver on and survive. It was a survival tactic, for certain.”

Now that Lopez and Affleck are older, she stated it was “far more clear” that they had been meant to be collectively.

Regardless of having felt the identical means in direction of one another again then, Lopez stated, “Now we all know. And there’s no questions and there’s no type of like, ‘Nicely, let’s see how this goes.’ Like, ‘Nope, it’s me and also you. That’s it. All the best way, until the tip. That’s it. It’s going to be us.’”

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The “Ready for Tonight” singer added that when she and her hubby initially reunited they instantly realized that the love was nonetheless there and didn’t need to waste any extra time.

“We had our children and we needed to tread flippantly and punctiliously so they may come together with us…As a result of they didn’t reside these years earlier than,” Lopez defined. “And so they’re like, ‘Wow, they’ve identified one another eternally.’ And that’s it. We did know one another eternally.

“We needed to reside these separate paths and we did different stunning issues and we had these wonderful kids. However once we got here again collectively,” she continued, “and… As soon as we received complete sufficient and full sufficient and beloved ourselves sufficient and will stand on our personal two ft actually utterly, because the universe would have it, we had been introduced into one another’s lives once more.

“It was a crack within the clouds and that track got here by means of and it was like, ‘Increase, that’s it.’ And we had been each very certain.”

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— jlo (@JLo) November 28, 2022

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Whereas Lopez’s rekindled romance with Affleck introduced her real love and happiness, it additionally gave the singer her “greatest fan.”

“He loves that album. He loves that music,” she stated of Affleck’s admiration for This Is Me…Then. “He is aware of all the phrases.”

“He’s my greatest fan, which is superior, and supporter. 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 it was simply pouring out of me,” she informed Lowe, referring to how her and Affleck’s journey of affection knowledgeable her forthcoming new album This Is Me…Now.