Jennifer Lopez shed some light on the end of her relationship with Ben Affleck back in 2003.
The Hustlers star, 54, sat down for an interview this week with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe to talk about how they called off their first wedding in September 2003 but didn’t break up right away.
‘We didn’t break up right at that moment, it happened over the series of the next few months,’ Jlo explained, adding that they actually split in January 2004.
‘Because what it did was it casted doubt in me, and both of us, about what our relationship was and where it was going, I think,’ she added.
The Gigli stars got back together and married each other in 2022, but even nearly 20 years ago, the Jenny From the Block singer – whose movie This is Me…Now premieres on Amazon Prime today – knew that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with the Argo director, 51.
Jennifer Lopez shed some light on the end of her relationship with Ben Affleck back in 2003 (Pictured here in 2002)
The Hustlers star, 54, sat down for an interview this week with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe to talk about how they called off their first wedding in September 2003 but didn’t break up right away
‘I knew in my heart that I wanted to be with him for the rest of my life, I knew that. But it didn’t feel like we were going to make it,’ the Wedding Planner actress said, adding: ‘And so, it scared me.’
At the time Lopez was in her early 30s and Affleck was in his late 20s and she said she didn’t feel they were mature enough to sort through their issues at the time and make a marriage work.
‘Even though he was in his late 20s, I was in my early 30s, it still, it wasn’t … we weren’t ready to deal with, and look at each other and go, what we have is real, we need to buckle down, we need to do some work,’ she explained. ‘We just weren’t there yet.’
Though she wasn’t ready to marry Affleck at the time and broke up with him in January 2004, later that year she married singer Marc Anthony, 55, and welcomed twins Emme and Max, 15, in February 2008.
The Air star, meanwhile married Jennifer Garner, 51, in 2005 and welcomed three kids together – Violet Anne, 18, Seraphina Rose, 15, and Samuel, 11.
Lopez split from Anthony in 2011 and went on to get engaged to baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez, 48, in 2019.
The Maid in Manhattan star has been engaged six times and married four times.
Affleck, meanwhile, split from the Alias star in 2015 after 13 years of marriage citing the reason that they just ‘grew apart’ during a 2021 interview with Howard Stern.
‘We didn’t break up right at that moment, it happened over the series of the next few months,’ Jlo explained, adding that they actually split in January 2004
‘Because what it did was it casted doubt in me, and both of us, about what our relationship was and where it was going, I think,’ she added (Pictured here in 2002)
The Gigli stars got back together and married each other in 2022, but even nearly 20 years ago, the Jenny From the Block singer knew that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with the Argo director, 51
‘I knew in my heart that I wanted to be with him for the rest of my life, I knew that. But it didn’t feel like we were going to make it,’ the Wedding Planner actress said, adding: ‘ And so, it scared me’ (Pictured here in 2002)
At the time Lopez was in her early 30s and Affleck was in his late 20s and she said she didn’t feel they were mature enough to sort through their issues at the time and make a marriage work’
Even though he was in his late 20s, I was in my early 30s, it still, it wasn’t … we weren’t ready to deal with, and look at each other and go, what we have is real, we need to buckle down, we need to do some work,’ she explained’ (Pictured here in 2002)
We just weren’t there yet.’ Though she wasn’t ready to marry Affleck at the time and broke up with him in Janaury 2004, later that year she married singer Marc Anthony, 55, and welcomed twins Emme and Max, 15, in February 2008
The Air star, meanwhile married Jennifer Garner, 51, in 2005 and welcomed three kids together – Violet Anne, 18, Seraphina Rose, 15, and Samuel, 11
Lopez split from Anthony in 2011 and went on to get engaged to baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez, 48, in 2019
‘We went, and we both tried, and found other people, and had beautiful children, and had other families, and then even had other relationships after that,’ Lopez said in her interview with Lowe.
‘It wasn’t until both of us had done, I know for me, a lot of work, and got into a place where I was like, “You know what? I’m totally good on my own. I’m chill, I love my life, I have this amazing career that I’ve built for myself, I have these amazing children … I have great friends.” That’s when he showed back up,’ she said.
‘And funnily enough, he said he had had the same type of experience,’ the I’m Real singer added. ‘And that’s kind of how it went down.’
Lopez and Affleck got back together in 2021 and wed in Las Vegas in 2022 and also held a larger wedding on the Good Will Hunting star’s Georgia property that summer.