Seems like a long time ago Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were one of Hollywood’s favorite couples, right? This couple started their relationship in 2002, after they met on the set of the movie Gigli. The relationship was intense and they even had plans to get married in 2003, but then the ceremony was postponed in the absence of 4 days due to excessive media coverage. The following year, the couple broke up.
Now, almost 20 years later, Ben Affleck is in a relationship with Cuban actress Ana de Armas and JLo is engaged to Dominican Alex Rodríguez. The actor tasked with playing Batman in the DCEU touched on the split and how the media eroded his partner.
“My relationship with Jennifer turned out to be the tabloid story the media should always have. Story of the month. At the time, that company grew exponentially,” he said in an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. “There has been a lot of violent shit written about it in a way that if they wrote it now they would literally fire you,” he added.
Affleck said that even today she maintains an excellent relationship with JLo and that they are good friends: “She is a very genuine person, I keep in touch with her regularly and have a lot of respect. that she does, where she came from and what she achieved, and that’s how it should be! ” People were sexist and racist against her.