It 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 meeting 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 to take place due to excessive media attention. The following year, the couple separated.
Now, almost 20 years later, Ben Affleck is in a relationship with Cuban actress Ana de Armas, and JLo has an engagement to Dominican Alex Rodríguez. The actor in charge of portraying Batman in DCEU touched on the division and the way in which the media eroded his partner.
“My relationship with Jennifer turned out to be the tabloid story that the media should always have. The story of the month. At that time, that business was growing exponentially,” he said in an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. “A lot of violent things have been written about it in a way that, if they wrote it now, they would literally fire you,” he added.
Affleck said that he still has a great relationship with JLo and that they are great friends: “She is a very authentic person, I keep in touch with her regularly and I have enormous respect. Now she is appreciated and respected for the work she does, where she came from and what she did, and that’s how it should be! ”People were damn sexist and racist with her.