Marine Corviole
10/10/2024 at 10:20
They believed in this backlash, 20 years after the breakdown of their engagement, but Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck finally divorced last summer. In a new interview, the star takes stock, with an open heart.
Jennifer Lopez spoke frankly about her divorce from Ben Affleck in an interview with “Interview” magazine on October 9. The opportunity for the singer and actress to talk about the lessons she learned from this new love disappointment.
J.Lo herself filed for divorce on August 20, two years to the day after her sumptuous marriage to Ben Affleck celebrated at his home in Georgia. The couple had seen things big to celebrate their return of flame, 20 years after their first romance and a painful break-up of engagement.
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However, Jennifer Lopez tries to get through this fourth divorce philosophically: “That doesn’t mean that I wasn’t almost killed for good. It almost happened,” she said. “But now, in hindsight, I’m like, ‘Damn, that’s exactly what I needed. Thank you, God. I’m sorry it took me so long. I’m sorry you had to do that to me so many times.” »
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Not only does the star refer to her second breakup with Ben Affleck, but also to her other troubled marriages: with Ojani Noa in the late 1990s, then with Cris Judd, between 2001 and 2002, and finally with Marc Anthony, the father of her twins Max and Emme, between 2004 and 2011. If she claims to have finally “understood the lesson”, she qualifies: “And by the way, that doesn’t mean that I understood everything […]. I think that’s what I like about life: there’s no end point. We can only improve and grow if we want to. »
After professional flops, finally a winning comeback?
And as for the strong criticism that accompanied the end of her romance with Ben Affleck, the 51-year-old artist does not let herself be affected since she knows well that everything that has been written and said about her is not “doesn’t match who (she is)”. “I know I’m a good person. I know I am a good mother. I know who my friends are. I know my friends know who I am, my mother, my father, all that. » From now on, Jennifer Lopez intends to refocus on herself. “I’m not looking for anyone […]. What if I was just free? »
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After the flop of her last album “This Is Me… Now” released last February, the mixed success of her film inspired by her love story with Ben Affleck and the cancellation of her North American tour for “personal reasons” , J.Lo hopes to relaunch her career with a new film: the biopic “Unstoppable”, dedicated to wrestling champion Anthony Robles, which will soon be released on Amazon Prime Video.
