True Love to Divorce: A Look Back at Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s Relationship Timeline

October 9, 2024

After radio silence, Jennifer finally broke her silence on her “unfamiliar” and “scary” divorce from Ben in a sit-down for Interview magazine.

“It feels sad. It feels desperate,” Jennifer told comedian Nikki Glaser. “But when you sit in those feelings and go, ‘These things are not going to kill me,’ it’s like actually, I am capable of joy and happiness all by myself. Being in a relationship doesn’t define me. I can’t be looking for happiness in other people.”

The New York native said she was focused on self-love and wasn’t “looking for anybody” now that she’s newly single.

“For people who are romantics and love being in relationships and want to grow old with somebody, we think, ‘I have to have that to be whole and happy.’ And you don’t,” she told the outlet, later admitting that her two-year marriage to Ben didn’t play out as she had envisioned.

“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.’ And then I thought, ‘No, this is exactly where I needed to be, to lead me to where I want to go,’” she told the outlet. “That doesn’t mean it didn’t almost take me out for good. It almost did. But now, on the other side of it, I think to myself, ‘F–k, that is exactly what I needed. 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.’”