Just to reconnect with an old flame on Facebook.
Jennifer Lopez revealed in a new Vogue interview Tuesday that she and Ben Affleck have rekindled their relationship over email after nearly 20 years apart.
Affleck, who had just split from Pandemic hottie Ana de Armas, reached out to the “Marry Me” actor after she and Alex Rodriguez broke off their engagement.
According to Vogue’s summary of events, Affleck told Lopez that another magazine had asked for a comment about her “and wanted it to be known that it was a compliment.” The magazine said the two continued to talk after the initial email and began visiting each other at home.
“Obviously, we didn’t try to go public,” Lopez said. “But I’ve never shied away from the fact that, for me, I’ve always felt that there’s real love out there, real love out there. The people in my life know that he was a very, very special person in my life. When we reconnected, those feelings were still very real to me.”
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“I happened not to discredit anything between them because all those things were also real,” he said. “All we ever wanted was to get to a place of peace in our lives where we could really feel the kind of love that you feel when you’re very young and you wonder if you can have it again.”
After a bathtub proposal and two weddings (one in Las Vegas, one in Georgia), the two are now working to reunite their families.
“Transition is a process that needs to be handled very carefully,” Lopez said of her twins Emme and Max, whom she shares with ex Marc Anthony. Affleck has three children – Violet, Seraphina and Samuel – with Jennifer Garner.
“They have so many feelings. They are teenagers. But so far it’s going really well,” he said, adding that Garner is “a fantastic co-parent and they work really well together.”
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Their children played a sweet role in the Georgia couple’s second marriage, which Lopez detailed in her newsletter, “On the JLo,” in September.
All five children walked down the aisle in front of the singer and stayed with their parents during the wedding ceremony.
“We’re not just getting married; we are marrying these children into a new family,” Lopez wrote in her newsletter. “They were the only people we asked to support us in our wedding party. To our great honor and joy, everyone did.”
To learn more about Lopez’s profile, head over to Vogue. The magazine’s December issue hits newsstands on November 15.
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