Jennifer Lopez, 53, talked a batch astir her hubby Ben Affleck, 50, successful a caller interview, including however she felt aft they ended their engagement successful 2004. “It was truthful achy aft we broke up. Once we called disconnected that wedding 20 years ago, it was the biggest heartbreak of my life,” J.Lo told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I honestly felt similar I was going to die. It sent maine connected a spiral for the adjacent 18 years wherever I conscionable couldn’t get it right. But now, 20 years later, it does person a blessed ending. It has the astir would-never-happen-in-Hollywood ending,” she added.
J.Lo and Ben got backmost unneurotic successful 2021, astir 2 decades aft their archetypal split, and they officially got married in July. The singer’s 2023 album This Is Me… Now is a follow-up to her 2002 medium This Is Me… Then, which featured her archetypal emotion songs astir Ben. Reflecting connected the couple’s archetypal split, J.Lo explained however tabloid civilization “destroyed” her narration with the Oscar winner.
“We loved each other. It was hard. It felt, astatine times, unfair, but neither 1 of america is that idiosyncratic to beryllium like, woe is me,” the “Let’s Get Loud” vocalist shared. “So we were like, well, we conscionable got to particulate it disconnected and support it moving. I think, successful the weirdest way, that it motivated some of america to past go and bash the things that we coiled up doing, which is going into hyper-gear. He went into hyper-gear and I went into hyper-gear. But not together. We had to bash it separately.”
J.Lo revealed that she struggled with penning euphony until she got backmost unneurotic with Ben past year. “When helium came backmost into my life, again the aforesaid happening happened wherever I felt truthful inspired and truthful overtaken with emotion that [the music] was conscionable pouring retired of me,” she told Zane. The Hustlers star besides said that Ben inactive loves This Is Me…Then. “He loves that music. He knows each of the words,” she said. “It’s crazy. He besides was with maine portion I was creating it.”
This Is Me…Now will feature the opus “Dear Ben pt. ll”, arsenic good as “Midnight Trip to Vegas,” aft their July 2022 nuptials successful Sin City. J.Lo said successful the Apple Music interrogation that she wants her medium to amusement everyone that “true emotion does exist” successful life.
“I privation to enactment that connection retired to the world. That does instrumentality a batch of vulnerability, but I couldn’t halt myself,” she said. “Parts of it scare maine and I deliberation parts of it scare Ben too. He’s like, ‘Do you truly privation to accidental each this stuff?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t cognize however other to bash it, baby.’ “