Coming full circle. Jennifer Lopez opened up about the “painful” end of her initial relationship with Ben Affleck before their 2021 reunion.The Hustlers actress, 53, sat down for a candid interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe after announcing her ninth studio album, This Is Me … Now, on Friday, November 25.“Twenty years ago, I fell in love with the love of my life,” Lopez gushed. “I was working on an album and it was called This Is Me … Then.
It was all about capturing that moment in time. Now, the most amazing, incredible, unbelievable thing has happened. The reason we’re here is because I want to capture this moment in time because it is even better than the first time.”The New York native and the Argo director, 50, were engaged from 2002 to 2004 but called off their planned 2003 nuptials due to heightened media attention.
This Is Me … Then dropped in 2002 and featured a song dedicated to Affleck titled “Dear Ben,” but the tunes hit different for Lopez after the duo’s split.“Dude, I wouldn’t even perform these records,” she told Lowe. “It was so painful after we broke up.
Once we called off that wedding 20 years ago, it was the biggest heartbreak of my life. I honestly felt like I was going to die.
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