Ben Affleck is ‘done’ talking about ex-wife Jennifer Lopez: ‘He’s not proud their marriage didn’t work out’

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finally broke his silence on their surprising 2024 divorce.“He’s done talking about JLo,” a source close to Affleck told People on Friday, March 28. “He’s not proud that their marriage didn’t work out.

He didn’t want to hurt her. But now he wants to just focus on his kids and work.”“He thrives when he’s busy,” the insider added.Affleck shares children Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 13, with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner, 52.

He also has several big projects coming up – including “The Accountant 2” on April 25.The source’s remarks come after the “Deep Water” actor opened up about his and Lopez’s split for the first – and apparently only – time during an interview with GQ for their April cover story.Affleck told the magazine that his “life is actually pretty drama-free” and that he holds “nothing but respect” for Lopez.

He also said that there is “no scandal” surrounding the pair’s breakup after only two years.“I guess there’s a tendency to look at breakups and want to identify root causes or something,” the Oscar-winning actor explained. “But honestly, like I said, the truth is much more quotidian than probably people would believe or would be interesting.”“There’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue,” he added.Affleck also emphasized that there was “no big event” that led Lopez to file for divorce in August 2024.“The truth is, when you talk to somebody, ‘Hey, what happened?’ Well, there is no: ‘This is what happened,’” the “Air” star said. “It’s just a story about people trying to figure out their lives and relationships in ways that we all sort of normally do.”“And as you get older, this is true for me, I assume it’s true for most people, there is no ‘So-and-so did this’ or ‘This was the big event,'” he.