Jennifer Lopez Reveals Rare 'Want to End Life' After Painful Split from Ben Affleck

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's road to marriage has not been easy. The beauty shared that breaking up with her former love in 2004 was her biggest pain, so much so that the singer did not want to live.

It's been two decades since Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck met, becoming Hollywood's most noted lovers. The top American entertainment duo, dating since 2002, had planned a dream wedding, but gossip and excessive media attention ended the affair in 2004.

After the breakup, they were both caught up in new relationships, had families of their own, and experienced breakdowns. In 2021, these two people once again found each other, continuing their unfinished love affair.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck first met on the set of Gigli in 2002. At the time, the Let's Get Loud singer was married to her second husband, Cris Judd, but quickly filed for divorce in June 2002. Not long after her separation from Cris, she publicly dated her handsome co-star who was 3 years her junior.

In a new interview with Apple Music 1, Marry Me vocalist Jennifer Lopez talks about her romance with Deep Water actor Ben Affleck and recalled the pain she endured when they split after their first engagement in 2004.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's road to marriage has not been easy.

"It hurt after we broke up," Jennifer Lopez, 53, told host Zane Lowe. "When we called off that wedding 20 years ago, it was the biggest pain of my life. Honestly, I felt like I was going to die. That sent me into a spiral for the next 18 years. But now, 20 years later, we have a happy ending. It's an ending that never happens in Hollywood."

Jennifer Lopez rekindled her romance with Ben Affleck, 50, 17 years after they first split — announced on Nov. 25 that she's releasing a new album called This is Me... Now, an update in her 2002 release This is Me... Bar.

Photo taken of the couple in 2002.

The Let's Get Loud singer explained: "We seized this moment when I returned to the love of my life and we decided to be together forever. The whole message of the album is, 'This love exists. This is true love.'"

The two stars got engaged for the first time in November 2002, the same month the album This is Me ... Bar. Lopez told Zane Lowe: "Now I think the message of the album is if you, like me, have lost hope at times, almost give up, then don't. True love has always existed and it is true. I want to get that message out to the world."

In April 2021, Page Six reported that Lopez and Affleck were hanging out together again after she split from ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez. They got engaged a year later and tied the knot in Las Vegas in July 2022, followed by a formal ceremony at Affleck's Georgia estate the following month.

The wedding was attended by famous friends such as actor Matt Damon and director Kevin Smith.

Jennifer Lopez's 14-year-old twins Max and Emme, the two children she has with ex Marc Anthony and Affleck's children with Jennifer Garner: Violet (16), Seraphina (13) and Samuel (10) also attended the wedding.

The "resumption of old love" with Jennifer Lopez makes Ben Affleck's life brighter after a difficult time due to alcoholism and stumbling into career and emotional setbacks. Not only indulged in love, the actor's career also developed in a positive direction. "I'm very happy, this is a really happy time in my life. Life is beautiful," the father-of-three told Extra in October 2021.

Us Weekly's source once revealed that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are always grateful that they were able to rekindle their unfinished love after so many years. The insider shared that the two are very happy and soon plan for a joint future. "They're passionately in love... They are both serious and want to spend the rest of their lives together. They aren't even thinking about splitting up again," the source added.

With overwhelming happiness, Jennifer Lopez exclamated love: "Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out that love is also patience. 20 years of patience. This is exactly what we wanted."

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