Jennifer Lopez is opening about her first relationship with Ben Affleck and what went wrong between the two of them.
As many people already know, Jennifer and Ben were engaged once before during the early 2000s. The couple met each other on the set of their movie “Gigli” in 2001.
The now husband and wife were engaged to be married in 2003 only to break off their engagement three days before their wedding.
“Ben and I, we broke up three days before our wedding,” Jennifer revealed in her new documentary titled The Greatest Love Story Never Told. “We had a big wedding planned—14 ushers and bridesmaids—and three days before, we just crumbled under the pressure.”
Jennifer explained that being Hollywood’s “It” couple at the time was too much for them. “The massive amount of scrutiny around out private life,” Lopez said was the main reason for their break up.
Lopez went on to say for years after ending their first engagement, “it was really hard because I didn’t just feel like I lost the love of my life, I felt like I lost the best friend that I ever had.”
And that angered Lopez, but admitted if it wasn’t for “that heartbreak” it wouldn’t have “set both of us on a course to figuring ourselves out to being better people.”
Almost two decades later, Lopez and Affleck found each other again in 2021, and finally married each other in 2022.
As Mamas Uncut previously reported, Ben proposed again just months before becoming husband and wife with a ring that had “Not. Going. Anywhere.” engraved on it.
In a 2022 interview, Lopez said that’s how he used to end of all their emails to one another. And revealed that there was no question she and Ben are meant to be together.
“That’s how he would sign his emails when we started talking again. Like, ‘Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere.’ “Now, we know and there’s no questions. It’s me and you, all the way, ’til the end,” she said, adding second chances can work out.”
What a love story.
