Jennifer Lopez Is ‘Excited’ to Be Single Again After Ben Affleck Split: ‘I’m Not Looking for Anybody’
Written by djfrosty on October 9, 2024
Things are looking up for Jennifer Lopez, who says she’s happy to be single again following her split from Ben Affleck.
While speaking to Nikki Glaser in an Interview conversation published Wednesday (Oct. 9), the “I’m Real” singer opened up about her positive post-divorce mindset less than two months after she filed to legally end her two-year marriage to the Gone Girl actor. “I was thinking about this time in my life, and I’m like, ‘That’s not what I thought it was going to turn out like,’” Lopez told the comedian. “And then I thought, ‘No, this is exactly where I needed to be, to lead me to where I want to go.’”
The Bronx native also added that she regrets “not one second” of the pain she felt as her marriage to Affleck came to a close, even if it did “almost take [her] out for good.” “Now, on the other side of it, I think to myself, ‘F–k, that is exactly what I needed,’” she continued. “Thank you, God. I’m sorry it took me so long. I’m sorry that you had to do this to me so many times. I should have learned it two or three times ago. I get it.”
The lesson learned is that Lopez doesn’t need a partner to get through life’s challenges, the Marry Me star explained. “I finally got it!” she said. “Now I’m excited, when you say you’re just going to be on your own. Yes, I’m not looking for anybody, because everything that I’ve done over the past 25, 30 years, being in these different challenging situations, what can I f–king do when it’s just me flying on my own … What if I’m just free?”
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Lopez filed to divorce Affleck Aug. 20, exactly two years after the pair tied the knot in Georgia. Their date of separation, however, was listed as four months prior on April 26, 2024.
The motion closed out Lopez and Affleck’s second attempt at romance, with the “On the Floor” artist and Good Will Hunting star first getting together in 2002 after meeting on the set of Gigli. They soon got engaged, but called off their wedding in 2004, nearly two decades after which the pair would rekindle their relationship in 2021.
Lopez — who was previously married to Ojani Noa, Cris Judd and Marc Anthony — heavily documented her and Affleck’s love story in her film The Greatest Love Story Never Told, as well as on her album This Is Me … Now. “I never thought that he and I would get back together,” she told Billboard in February of Affleck, who was previously married to Jennifer Garner, ahead of the premiere of the documentary. “I just just couldn’t give up on idea that there was something amazing out there for me, even when it got really bad — and it did at times. I always believed deep, deep down to not give up completely.”
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