Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck after months of speculation
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are officially ending their marriage, two years after saying “I do.”
E! News and TMZ report that Lopez filed for divorce on Aug. 20 in Los Angeles. She listed their date of separation as April 26.
News of their divorce filing comes after months of speculation about the status of their relationship.
Several reports over the last several months revealed that while Affleck and Lopez spent a significant amount of time apart, they were also attempting to work on their marriage. In the end, the couple has chosen to end their marriage.
Affleck and Lopez exchanged vows in July 2022.
Back in February, Lopez opened up about her first relationship with Affleck and what went wrong between them.
The former couple was engaged once before during the early 2000s. They met each other on the set of their movie “Gigli” in 2001.
Affleck and Lopez were engaged in 2003, only to break off their engagement three days before the wedding, E! News reports.
“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 our private life” was the main reason for their break-up, Lopez said.
“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,” Lopez said.
And that angered Lopez, who 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 in 2022.
As it’s been widely reported, Affleck proposed again with a ring that had “Not. Going. Anywhere.” engraved on it.
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In a 2022 interview with Zane Lowe, Lopez said that’s how he used to end of all their emails to one another. And revealed that there was no question they were 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.”