Brushing it off! Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez aren’t fazed by Selling Sunset‘s Emma Hernan bringing up her alleged Raya exchange with the actor on the reality series.The scene “went way over their heads,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly of Affleck, 49, and Lopez, 52, who got engaged earlier this month. “It was blown out of proportion.
Everyone is always out to make Ben look bad but he did nothing wrong. He was on a dating app when he was single.”During a season 5 episode of the hit Netflix show, the 30-year-old Oppenheim Group realtor was chatting with coworker Chrishell Stause about her love life and mentioned that she used the dating app Raya. “He may or may not have been texting me,” the entrepreneur claimed of the Argo director. “He may or may not have asked to grab … coffee a few times.”Hernan gushed that she and Affleck shared a “Boston connection,” recalling that his “opening pickup line” was related to the East Coast.
According to the model, the back-and-forth occurred “right before” the Oscar winner reunited with Lopez in April 2021.“You could’ve foiled Bennifer,” Stause, 40, replied. “He was on the hunt.”The Justice League star denied Hernan’s story after the new season debuted on Friday, April 22. “They matched, they exchanged messages, they never met,” a rep for Affleck told Us in a statement.Days later, the Emma Leigh & Co.
founder proceeded to walk back her comments. “It was not recent,” she told E!’s Daily Pop on Monday, April 25. “This was 2019.
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