Back in January, we reported that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez had finalized their contentious, public divorce after just two years of marriage.
Affleck hasn’t seemed to handle it very well, and now he’s speaking out to reveal what was “embarrassing” about the whole scenario.
Affleck And Lopez’s ‘Embarrassing’ Divorce
Affleck, 52, and Lopez, 55, were previously engaged in the early 2000s, but they split and went on to each marry and divorce other people before reuniting.
The second time around, they married in July of 2022, and they split exactly two years later, with their divorce being finalized in January. Affleck just told GQ that “there’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue” behind his breakup with Lopez.
“The truth is, when you talk to somebody, ‘Hey, what happened?’ Well, there is no, ‘This is what happened,'” Affleck explained. “It’s just a story about people trying to figure out their lives and relationships in ways that we all sort of normally do.”
Affleck went on to say that as he “gets older,” he’s noticed that “there is no ‘So-and-so did this’ or ‘This was the big event.'” Instead, according to him, “it sounds more like a couple’s therapy session, which — you would tune out of someone else’s couple’s therapy after a while.”
This is where it gets “embarrassing” for Affleck.
“For one thing, you start going, ‘Okay, clearly this person has got these issues. Clearly they have these issues.’ And the reason I don’t want to share that is just sort of embarrassing,” he admitted. “It feels vulnerable.”
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Affleck Discusses Documentary About His Marriage
In this same interview, Affleck opened up about why he chose to get involved in the 2024 documentary about their marriage, The Greatest Love Story Never Told.
“Part of it was, ‘Okay, if I’m going to participate in this, I want to try to do it in an honest way and in a way that’s interesting,'” he recalled. “Because I thought it was an interesting examination.”
Affleck then praised Lopez for being someone who has “handled celebrity more adeptly and more adroitly than I have.”
“My temperament is to be a little bit more reserved and private than hers,” he confessed.
Looking back, Affleck believes that “it’s important to say” that the documentary “wasn’t the cause of some major fracture” in his marriage with Lopez.
“It’s not like you can watch that documentary and go, ‘Oh, now I understand the issues that these two had,'” he alleged.
Affleck concluded by saying that though he understands “wanting to divine or explore the kind of differences in perspective that we have in terms of how a person feels comfortable approaching the line between public and private life,” he still has “nothing but respect” for Lopez even after their divorce.
“There’s a tendency to look at breakups and want to identify root causes or something,” Affleck added. “But honestly … the truth is much more quotidian than probably people would believe or would be interesting.”
For those who haven’t been around a thesaurus in awhile, “quotidian” means it’s a daily occurrence.
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Affleck And Lopez’s History
Affleck and Lopez met in December of 2001 on the set of their infamous movie Gigli. They became engaged the next year, only to shock fans by calling off their planned wedding in 2003 just days before it was set to take place.
Affleck and Lopez each went on to marry and divorce different people. Affleck married the former Alias star Jennifer Garner in 2005 and had three children with her before they divorced in 2018. Prior to Lopez, Affleck’s union with Garner was his only marriage.
Meanwhile, Lopez married the singer Marc Anthony, staying with him from 2004 until they divorced in 2014. He’s the father of her twins.
Affleck was actually Lopez’s fourth husband. Her first marriage was to the actor Ojani Noa, who she was married to from 1997 until 1998. She then married her backup dancer Cris Judd in 2002, and they divorced the next year.
Divorce is never easy, and it’s particularly difficult when a couple is in the public eye. We can only hope that Affleck and Lopez are each able to put this behind them and move on with their respective lives!
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