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Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck Spotted Together for the First Time Since Divorce Filing
Jennifer Lopez is in her self-love era.
More than a period aft filing for divorcement from Ben Affleck, the “Let’s Get Loud” vocalist got candid astir the twelvemonth her “whole f--king satellite exploded” and however a displacement successful position led to her and the Oscar winner’s breakup.
“You person to beryllium complete, if you privation thing that’s much complete,” Lopez told comedian Nikki Glaser in an Interview magazine illustration published Oct. 9. “You person to beryllium bully connected your own. I thought I learned that, but I didn’t. And then, this summer, I had to beryllium like, ‘I request to spell disconnected and beryllium connected my own. I privation to beryllium to myself that I tin bash that.’”
Without mentioned Affleck by name, Lopez added, “Being successful a narration doesn’t specify me. I can’t beryllium looking for happiness successful different people. I person to person happiness wrong myself.”
And that conception volition proceed connected into the “Jenny From the Block” singer’s attack to dating moving forward. After all, she’s not funny successful romance astatine the moment.
“Here’s the thing,” Lopez, who officially filed for divorcement successful August aft 2 years of marriage, shared. “There’s nary caller barroom due to the fact that I’m not looking for anybody. How’s that?”
As she enactment it, “I’m not looking for anybody, due to the fact that everything that I’ve done implicit the past 25, 30 years, being successful these antithetic challenging situations, what tin I f--king bash erstwhile it’s conscionable maine flying connected my own. What if I’m conscionable free?”
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While admitting that her existent azygous presumption was “not what I thought it was going to crook retired like,” the Wedding Planner prima added, “This is precisely wherever I needed to be, to pb maine to wherever I privation to go.”
But contempt the symptom that came with her divided from Affleck—to whom she was engaged successful the aboriginal aughts earlier their 2021 reunion—she has nary regrets astir their emotion story.
“Not 1 second,” she emphasized. “That doesn’t mean it didn’t astir instrumentality maine retired for good. It astir did. But now, connected the different broadside of it, I deliberation to myself, ‘F--k, that is precisely what I needed.’”
As for the mendacious narratives surrounding the extremity of her matrimony and her existent state, Lopez had to reconcile her information with what was being enactment retired into the world.
“I cognize that everything that’s being written and said astir me, and each the conjecture of who I americium arsenic a person, is not who I am. I learned that a agelong clip ago,” she said. “I cognize I’m a bully person. I cognize I’m a bully mom. I cognize who my friends are. I cognize my friends cognize who I am, my mom, my dad, each that stuff.”
The Hustlers star—who is ma to 16-year-old twins Max and Emme with ex-husband Marc Anthony—is gladsome she took the clip to re-center herself, adjacent though it meant canceling her tour earlier this year.
“I was truthful devastated to fto anybody down, but I conscionable needed to beryllium with my kids and myself and truly excavation down heavy into things that were happening successful my life,” she explained. “And I’m gladsome I did, due to the fact that it was a truly hard clip for me. Probably the hardest clip of my life, but it was besides the champion clip due to the fact that I got to bash that enactment connected myself.”
But soon, she’ll beryllium backmost connected stage.
“I’ll beryllium retired determination entertaining you,” she said, “and shaking my ass sooner than you know.”
For more a look backmost on Affleck and Lopez's romance, work on.
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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.
