Jennifer Lopez is convinced that the gossip magazines’ appetite for her personal life led her to split from Ben Affleck in 2003. She opened up about this difficult phase of her life in an interview with Apple Music 1.
Jennifer Lopez has claimed that celebrities and tabloid culture “destroyed” her first romance with Ben Affleck.
The singer and actor started dating in 2002 after they met on the set of the film Gigli and got engaged a few months later. But following the media and public attention to their relationship, they decided to break up in September 2003, just days before their wedding.
Reflecting on their breakup in an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, the On the Floor singer said that public interest in “Bennifer” was a major factor in their split. “(Tabloid culture) was a new thing and it destroyed us. It’s part of what destroyed us, it was an external energy coming towards us, he said. And we loved each other. It was hard. Sometimes it was unfair, but neither of them were the type to say “woe is me.” »
After their separation, La Bomba Latina and the director of Argo embarked on a number of projects and created separate families. “He got into directing, won his he Oscar, then his second Oscar, doing his he thing where people kind of wrote him off. Same for me. It was as if people were saying, “His music career is over. She is this, she is that.” Do you understand what I mean? I had no movies. I had to go back, he continued the 53-year-old star. The breakup made us feel in a weird way that we needed to prove ourselves again. »
But JLo is adamant that it was time to rekindle her relationship with him in April 2021. And after a year of dating, they tied the knot in Vegas in July. “He IS my biggest fan, which is great, and my biggest supporter. When he came back into my life the same thing happened. I felt so inspired and so overwhelmed with the emotion that (new songs) were coming out of me,” she added.
Jennifer’s new album, This Is Me… Now, a sequel to her 2002 album, This Is Me… Then, will be released next year.
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