Jennifer Lopez said this Wednesday in an interview with Interview Magazine that she is “excited” about being single after filing for divorce from American actor Ben Affleck last August.
“Now I’m excited” when I’m told that I’m just going to be alone, the 55-year-old singer and actress told journalist Nikki Glaser in her first statements about her separation from Affleck after two years of marriage.
“Being in a relationship does not define me. I can’t look for happiness in other people. I have to have happiness inside me,” added the ‘Let’s Get Loud’ singer.
The actress filed for divorce on August 20 before the Superior Court of Los Angeles County (California) and asked to recover her name Jennifer Lynn López because she does not want to legally carry the surname Affleck.
The woman known as the ‘diva of the Bronx’ established in the legal document the date of separation from her partner on April 26, just over a week before the May 6 gala at the Metropolitan Museum, to which she attended alone. , giving rise to rumors about their marriage.
López also indicated to the court in his divorce petition that neither of them wants spousal support and that the separation of assets is yet to be defined.
After leaving the $60 million home he shared with the New Yorker, Affleck, 52, rented a property near where the three children he had with actress Jennifer Garner live, from where he continued working on his projects and then bought a house