Jennifer Lopez Shares Exactly How She & Ben Affleck Reconnected After 20 Years & Her A-Rod Split

Jennifer Lopez held thing backmost portion discussing her narration with Ben Affleck successful a caller interrogation with Vogue for the magazine’s Dec. 2022 interview. After ending their engagement successful 2004, Ben and Jen got backmost unneurotic successful the outpouring of 2021 pursuing her divided from Alex Rodriguez. The 2 had kept successful interaction connected and disconnected implicit the years, but took things to the adjacent level erstwhile Ben sent Jen an email aft the A-Rod engagement ended. He was giving her a heads up that helium had been asked astir her successful an interrogation and had provided a “rave” response. The speech led them to support talking and yet commencement visiting each different astatine their respective homes.

“Obviously, we weren’t trying to spell retired successful public,” Jen admitted. “But I ne'er shied distant from the information that for me, I ever felt similar determination was a existent emotion there, a existent emotion there. People successful my beingness cognize that helium was a very, precise peculiar idiosyncratic successful my life. When we reconnected, those feelings for maine were inactive precise real.” Unlike different exes who outgrow each other, Jen said that she and Ben were capable to “find” 1 different aft truthful galore years apart.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez connected the reddish carpet. (M. Angeles Salvador/MEGA)

“All we’ve ever wanted was to benignant of travel to a spot of bid successful our lives wherever we truly felt that benignant of emotion that you consciousness erstwhile you’re precise young and wonderment if you tin person that again,” she explained. “oes it exist? Is it real? All those questions I deliberation everyone has. You spell done each these relationships and you’re searching and you’re connecting and you’re disconnecting with radical and you’re like, ‘God, is this conscionable what beingness is? A carousel, roller coaster, carnival ride?’ And past it settles.”

Jennifer Lopez connected ‘Vogue.’ (Annie Leibovitz)

Jen and Ben archetypal got unneurotic successful 2002 and were engaged by the extremity of that year. They called disconnected their Sept. 2003 wedding conscionable days earlier the ceremony, and ended their narration 4 months later. Ben went connected to person 3 children with Jennifer Garner, portion Jen had twins with Marc Anthony. After they rekindled their narration successful 2021, Ben went connected to popular the question successful March 2022. They tied the knot successful a Las Vegas wedding successful July, followed by a much lavish ceremony with household and friends successful August.