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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Settle Divorce After 4 Months
Ben Affleck is sharing his broadside of the story.
Over 3 months aft the Good Will Hunting prima and Jennifer Lopez finalized their divorce, helium addressed the extremity of their two-year marriage—which followed an engagement successful the mid-aughts earlier a breakup until 2021.
“There’s a inclination to look astatine breakups and want to place basal causes oregon something,” Ben explained to GQ successful an interrogation published March 25. “The information is overmuch much quotidian than astir apt radical would judge oregon would beryllium interesting.”
And portion helium acquiesced that helium and the Maid successful Manhattan prima had immoderate cardinal differences successful their attack to fame, helium emphasized of their breakup, “There’s nary scandal, nary soap opera, nary intrigue.”
The 52-year-old—who shares kids Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 13, with ex Jennifer Garner—also added discourse to a wide circulated clip from Jennifer’s The Greatest Love Story Never Told, where helium concisely compared their antithetic perspectives connected personage beingness saying, “you don’t wed a vessel skipper and accidental you don’t similar water.”
As helium added to GQ, “As happens successful relationships, you don’t ever person the aforesaid cognition towards these things.”
But portion Ben stood by his erstwhile comments made successful the documentary, helium noted that his and Jennifer’s antithetic takes connected fame were not what caused their divorce.
“You’ve got to ain what you knew going into immoderate relationship,” helium continued. “I deliberation it’s important to accidental that wasn’t the origin of immoderate large fracture. It’s not similar you tin ticker that documentary and go, ‘Oh, present I recognize the issues that these 2 had.’”
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After opening up connected his narration with the “On The Floor” singer, Ben expressed that helium has nary hard feelings toward his ex, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to her tendency for a much nationalist life.
“This is idiosyncratic I person a batch of respect for,” helium explained. “And I get wanting to divine oregon research the benignant of differences successful position that we person successful presumption of however a idiosyncratic feels comfy approaching the enactment betwixt nationalist and backstage life.”
He highlighted that erstwhile it comes to J.Lo’s tendency for fame, helium doesn’t person “any negativity oregon judgement oregon thing regarding that.”
As for what caused their breakup? It isn’t 1 thing, Ben noted, and helium isn’t going to get into the nitty gritty details immoderate clip soon.
“The crushed I don’t privation to stock that is conscionable benignant of embarrassing,” helium added. “It feels vulnerable.”
Keep speechmaking for a look backmost astatine Ben and Jennifer’s romance…
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December 2001: Filming Gigli
The two prepare to movie a country for the movie successful West Hollywood. The mates met on the acceptable of the film.
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October 2002: Spotted successful Beverly Hills
The 2 are spotted successful the city.
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November 2002: Filming Gigli and Engagement
The 2 movie the movie connected Will Rogers State Beach successful Los Angeles. That month, the histrion proposes to the histrion with a 6.1-carat pinkish diamond ring.
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November 2002: Filming Jersey Girl
The 2 movie the movie successful New York City.
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November 2002: Leaving MTV's TRL
Is determination thing much '00s than some Bennifer 1.0 and TRL?
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December 2002: Red Carpet Debut
The 2 marque their reddish carpet debut arsenic a mates astatine the premiere of her film Maid successful Manhattan.
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January 2003: Sundance
The 2 bundle up astatine the Sundance Film Festival successful Utah.
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February 2003: Daredevil Premiere
The 2 look astatine the premiere of Daredevil, starring Ben arsenic the superhero.
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February 2003: Daredevil Premiere
The 2 look astatine the premiere of Daredevil, starring Ben and aboriginal ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
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March 2003: Oscars
The 2 be the Academy Awards together.
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May 2003: Basketball Game
The 2 beryllium courtside astatine a Los Angeles Lakers game.
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July 2003: Canada Trip
The 2 movie a Dateline interrogation for NBC successful Vancouver.
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July 2003: Gigli Premiere
The 2 look astatine the premiere for their movie successful Westwood, Calif.
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August 2003: Gigli Is Released
...it flops astatine the container office.
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September 2003: Wedding Is Off
The 2 postpone their wedding. No aboriginal day is given.
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October 2003: Baseball Date
The 2 are seen astatine a Boston Red Sox game. The squad is Ben's favorite.
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January 2004: It's Over
The 2 extremity their engagement.
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September 2021: Red Carpet Royalty
They're baaaack. On Sept. 10, the mates makes their archetypal reddish carpet quality successful 18 years astatine the Venice Film Festival premiere of The Last Duel.
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September 2021: Look of Love
There's nary denying J.Lo makes for a stunning plus-one!
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September 2021: Back to the Stage
Ben supports J.Lo astatine the 2021 Global Citizen Live lawsuit successful New York City, wherever she performed onstage. It marked her archetypal euphony gig since she performed astatine VAX LIVE successful May, wherever the histrion besides appeared onstage separately, fueling rumors of a rekindled romance.
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September 2021: Met Gala Debut
The 2 be the Met Gala unneurotic for the archetypal time.
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October 2021: PDA astatine Premiere
Jen and Ben enactment connected a sizzling show connected the reddish carpet astatine the premiere of his film The Last Duel successful New York City.
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April 2022: Engaged Again!
Jennifer confirmed her engagement to the Gone Girl histrion with a video posted to her On The JLo site, revealing a glimpse of her beauteous engagement ringing with a greenish stone.
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July 2022: Married!
On July 16, Jennifer and Ben tied the knot successful a astonishment ceremonial astatine A Little White Wedding Chapel successful Las Vegas.
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July 2022: Post-Wedding Trip to Paris
The 2 abrogation with her twins and 2 of his kids successful the French superior soon aft their wedding.
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June 2023: Red Carpet Fabulous
J.Lo steps retired with Ben successful enactment of his movie The Flash.
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February 2024: This Is Them...Now
Jennifer merchandise This Is Me... Now, an medium astir her narration with Ben. The grounds is accompanied by a philharmonic movie titled This Is Me... Now: A Love Story and the documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told.
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March 2024: Jenny connected the Block
The mates enjoys a time retired successful NYC connected March 30, 2024.
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August 2024: Divorce
J.Lo filed for divorcement Aug. 20, listing the day of separation arsenic Apil 26, according to the filing obtained by TMZ.
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