What Jennifer Lopez said about Ben Affleck on ‘JKL!’ as divorce rumors loom

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“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night amid the ongoing rumors that the couple’s marriage is falling apart.The “Hustlers” actress, 54, told Jimmy Kimmel about meeting Barbra Streisand early in her career when she was initially engaged to Affleck, 51, in the early 2000s.“She was asking me to look at my engagement ring at the time that Ben had given me years ago,” Lopez recalled of her interaction with Streisand, 82.

Lopez said that Streisand told her, “So that’s a big diamond.’”“And I was like, ‘Yes, it is,’ ” Lopez added. Lopez and Affleck were initially together from 2002 to 2004.

They ended their engagement in January 2004 after delaying their wedding “due to the excessive media attention” that surrounded the couple at the time.Following the breakup, Affleck went on to marry Jennifer Garner in 2005.

The couple had three children — Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12 — before their divorce in 2018.Lopez, for her part, married fellow musician Marc Anthony in 2004, having twins Max and Emme, 16, with him before the couple were divorced in 2014.Affleck and Lopez reunited nearly two decades after they called off their initial engagement.