Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck rekindled their relationship and tied the knot this yr, however the singer nonetheless remembers the heartbreak of calling off their preliminary wedding ceremony almost twenty years in the past.
“It was so painful after we broke up,” Lopez informed Zane Lowe in an Apple Music interview revealed Monday. “As soon as we known as off that wedding ceremony 20 years in the past, it was the most important heartbreak of my life. I actually felt like I used to be going to die.”
“It despatched me on a spiral for the following 18 years the place I simply couldn’t get it proper,” the New York-born actor continued. “However now, 20 years later, it does have a cheerful ending. It has probably the most ‘would by no means occur in Hollywood’ ending.”
Lopez and Affleck met in 2001 on the set of their well-known field workplace flop “Gigli” and bought engaged in 2002. Their relationship ― coined “Bennifer” ― was chronicled relentlessly by paparazzi.
Whereas they deliberate to cement that relationship with a star-studded ceremony in 2003, the movie star couple postponed their wedding ceremony “as a result of extreme media consideration.” They known as it quits the next yr.
“Jennifer Lopez has ended her engagement to Ben Affleck,” a consultant informed Individuals on the time. “At this troublesome time, we ask that you simply respect her privateness.”
The tabloid tragedy become a Hollywood fairytale when Lopez rekindled her relationship with Affleck in 2021 after her break up from Alex Rodriguez.
Lopez and Affleck married in July 2022. They adopted up their non-public Las Vegas elopement with a extra conventional ceremony at Affleck’s Savannah, Georgia, property in August.
Lopez is at the moment selling “This Is Me…Now” ― a follow-up to “This Is Me...Then,” an album she launched the identical month she and Affleck initially bought engaged twenty years in the past.
She informed Lowe the file “captured me at this second in time once I was reunited with the love of my life and we determined we have been going to be collectively without end.”
“Now I feel what the message of [the album] is — in case you have, like me at occasions, misplaced hope, nearly given up, don’t,” Lopez stated. “Real love does exist and a few issues do final without end and that’s actual. I need to put that message out into the world and that does take a number of vulnerability.”
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