Why Ben Affleck Is Just Now Speaking Out About Jennifer Lopez

The couple in list A was committed in 2002 but separated from the following year. In 2021, they rekindled their romance and married in 2022 to two distinct ceremonies. However, their honeymoon period did not last long. Lopez asked for divorce in August 2024. He was finalized in January 2025.

The actor “Accountant 2” recently shared some details on the end of his relationship in a cover interview for the April issue of Gq. He had only beautiful things to say about his ex-wife, noting that she “manipulated more adente celebrity and more skillfully than me”.

He added: “My temperament is to be a little more reserved and private than his.”

Affleck also seemed to close the idea that their documentary in 2024 on their wedding, The biggest love story has never told, was the reason for the split, as fans had suspected.

“As happens in relationships, you do not always have the same attitude towards these things,” he continued, discussing the quantity of their private life that they wanted to put under the spotlight. “And so I thought, oh, it’s interesting because how do you reconcile this? Because … I like and support this person. I think in them. They are great. I want people to see that.”

By recalling the realization of the documentary, Affleck noted that Lopez was much more comfortable in the spotlight than him, but it was something that he had registered. He remembers saying something in the sense of: “” You don’t bother a ship captain and then say: “Well, I don’t like to go out in the water.” “You must have what you knew in a relationship.” “”

“And I think it is important to say that it was not the cause of a major fracture. It is not as if you could watch this documentary and go:” Oh, now I understand the problems that these two had, “he added.

Although the actor “argo” was notoriously private, he admitted that it did not bother to talk about his personal life “a little” as long as his “feelings and real beliefs and beliefs are communicated”. In this case, he says he hopes that he is clear that Lopez is someone he has “a lot of respect”.

Affleck said that he understood “wanting to divide or explore the type of perspective of perspective that we have in terms of the way a person feels comfortable approaching the border between public and private life”, but insisted that he had “nothing other than respect” for his ex.

“There is a tendency to look at the ruptures and want to identify the deep causes or something. But honestly … The truth is much more daily than people do not believe it or would be interesting,” he continued.

Affleck also said that there was no major scandal that led to a quick end at their wedding. “There is no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue,” he said. “The truth is, when you speak to someone,” hey, what happened? “Well, there is not,” that’s what happened “.”

“It’s just a story about people who try to understand their life and their relationships in a way that we do normally,” he added.

He clearly emerges from his comments that he tries to put an end to rumors and speculations concerning his relationship so that they can both leave the relationship. Although Affleck may not have discussed comments in the past, it seems that he has learned to sail in the press because of his relationship with Lopez.

In March 2023, Affleck said The Hollywood Reporter Let Lopez “gave me a conference” before the interview to help him prepare.

“She thinks that, because of the experiences I had, I became very kept. And she is right,” he said. “I consider these things as terrestrial mines, where if you say a bad thing, your career could be over.”

He approached an appearance in December 2021 on “The Howard Stern Show”, which he described as a “really painful experience where I had an interview where I was really vulnerable”. He said that various outlets distort his words to say “the opposite of what I meant”.

So before his interview with THRHe remembers:

“So she says to me today:” Read, be yourself. Have fun. You are actually a fun guy who is real and authentic, and you seem so serious. “Do I seem serious? But as in many things, she is really right.”

He added: “And she loves me. She holds me on me. She tries to help me. So it’s like, maybe I should listen to her.”

Now that his relationship is finished, it seems that Afflec has accepted that he was going to make the headlines, whether silent or not. A good example of this is when the FBI was spotted in front of its house in Brentwood, California, on January 12.

“There is nothing worthy of interest in the daily events of my life or the conversation I have with someone or another person who is photographed,” he added.

Although he knows that it is ridiculous, even must admit that people will talk about it, whether he likes it or not, and the only way to treat history is to control the story. Affleck and Lopez have major projects to come. If he remained silent at the end of their marriage, questions about their relationship would undoubtedly arise on all the red carpets they worked.

In this way, speaking finally, he can close the door of rumors of infidelity or conflict in their marriage. Instead, he can take his brush and paint the image of two adults who tried to be in a relationship … and that simply did not work.

Whether fans believe or not that this is another story, and it has no interest in reading.