Ben Affleck breaks silence on Jennifer Lopez divorce: We had different ‘temperaments’

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Bennifer divorce.In his new cover story for the April issue of GQ, the 52-year-old actor spoke about his 2024 split from Lopez, 55, and his decision to appear in her documentary “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,” in which he seemed unhappy about Lopez sharing so much about their relationship.“Part of it was, ‘Okay, if I’m going to participate in this, I want to try to do it in an honest way and in a way that’s interesting,'” Affleck explained. “Because I thought it was an interesting examination.”“There are a lot of people who I think have handled celebrity more adeptly and more adroitly than I have, Jennifer among them,” the “Accountant 2” star added. “My temperament is to be a little bit more reserved and private than hers.

As happens in relationships, you don’t always have the same attitude towards these things.”Affleck continued, “And so I thought, Oh, this is interesting because how do you reconcile that?

Love and support this person. I believe in them. They’re great. I want people to see that. And I think the thing that I said in that documentary or the piece that they used was where I said, ‘You don’t marry a ship captain.’ And then say, ‘Well, I don’t like going out in the water.’ You’ve got to own what you knew going into any relationship.”“And I think it’s important to say that wasn’t the cause of some major fracture,” Affleck clarified. “It’s not like you can watch that documentary and go, ‘Oh, now I understand the issues that these two had.'”Affleck and Lopez divorced after two years of marriage earlier this year.

Lopez filed for divorce in Aug. 2024.The second half of Affleck’s interview was done days after he made his initial comments about Lopez.