Jennifer Lopez talked about her marriage with Ben Affleck.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck made an iconic couple in the early 2000s. Their reunion and surprise wedding in Las Vegas in 2022, almost twenty years later, sent shockwaves through Hollywood and beyond. In an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 on Wednesday, February 14, 2024, the singer told the story of their love story.

Not “mature enough”

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez met in 2002 on the set of the movie. Jiggle. They have a beautiful love story, but something is wrong. “Even though he was twenty, I was already thirty, it wasn’t yet… We weren’t ready to face each other, look at each other and say that what we have is real, that we. had to squeal that we had to work,” he explained. “We just weren’t there yet. “Maybe they weren’t ‘mature enough’ to really understand what was going on,” he tries to explain. However, the couple plans to get married next year. A marriage that was eventually annulled and led to the couple’s separation a few months later. “I knew in my heart that I wanted to be with him for the rest of my life, I knew it. But we didn’t feel like we were going to make it,” said Jennifer Lopez, whose film This is me… Now. love story releases Friday, February 16, 2024 on Prime Video. “And so that scared me.” He explained. “We didn’t break up then, it happened over the next few months… Because I think that’s what made me and both of us question what our relationship was and where it was going.”

Life without each other

For almost two decades, the two artists continued their lives and had children. A passage that the singer does not keep silent during her interview. “We found other people, and we had beautiful children, and we had other families, and we even had other relationships after that.” Jennifer Lopez has twins Emmy and Maximilian, who are now 15, with Marc Anthony. Ben Affleck married Jennifer Garner, with whom he had three children: 18-year-old Violet, 15-year-old Seraphina and 11-year-old Samuel.

“Then he came back.”

In 2021, to everyone’s surprise, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck reformed their iconic couple after almost twenty years of separation. A surprise wedding took place in Las Vegas the following year. In her interview, Jlo confides in her state of mind at the time of their reunion. “It wasn’t until we both worked on ourselves a lot, of course, that we got to a point where I said, “You know what? I’m perfectly fine on my own. I’m relaxed, I love my life, I have this incredible career that I’ve built for myself, I have these incredible kids… I have so many great friends.” That’s when he came back.”