Ben Affleck, 52, is insisting there’s “no scandal, no cleaning soap opera, no intrigue” linked to his divorce from Jennifer Lopez whereas nonetheless praising his first ex-wife, Jennifer Garner.
Many years after first assembly on set of “Gigli” and courting from 2002 to 2004, Affleck and Lopez gave their love a second strive in April 2021.
They tied the knot in a personal Las Vegas ceremony on July 2022, separated in April 2024 and two months later Lopez filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable variations. Their divorce, although not surprising to everybody, was finalized in February 2025.
However within the April subject of GQ journal, Affleck addresses his look in Lopez’s 2024 “The Best Love Story By no means Advised” documentary, the place she divulged that they had been “personal folks.”
“A part of it was, ‘OK, if I’m going to take part on this, I need to attempt to do it in an sincere manner and in a manner that’s attention-grabbing,’” Affleck defined. “As a result of I believed it was an attention-grabbing examination.”
He added, “My temperament is to be a bit bit extra reserved and personal than hers. As occurs in relationships, you don’t all the time have the identical perspective in the direction of these items.”
Affleck additionally talked about eager to assist his ex-wife and recommended that the general public shouldn’t conclude that the filming of the documentary affected their relationship.
“You’ve acquired to personal what you knew going into any relationship. And I feel it’s essential to say that wasn’t the reason for some main fracture. It’s not like you may watch that documentary and go, ‘Oh, now I perceive the problems that these two had.’”
He additionally admitted, “For one factor, you begin going, ‘OK, clearly this particular person has acquired these points. Clearly they’ve these points.’ And the rationale I don’t need to share that’s simply kind of embarrassing.”
Affleck reiterated he had “a variety of respect” for Lopez. The “Argo” movie director denied holding “negativity or judgment” relating to his personal life being on show to the general public regardless of the cut up being uneventful in his view.
“My life is definitely fairly drama-free. And so even when I’ve the identical occasions that folks have— I’m positive in your thoughts you’re pondering, Oh, effectively, you simply acquired divorced. That’s not drama-free,” Affleck stated.
He continued, “And I perceive that intuition, however all of that is fairly grownup and for all of the sensational stuff that will get written, if any person sat down and talked to me about it, and I stated, ‘Nicely, that is actually the expertise,’ their eyes would glaze over with boredom.”
New York Put up readers shared their ideas on Affleck’s remarks about parting methods along with his “Gigli” co-star beneath the Put up’s article concerning the GQ profile.
“They needed to marry twice to seek out this out? Gradual learners?” one particular person requested, earlier than others famous that regardless of being engaged twice they solely married as soon as.
A second particular person wrote, “After I first discovered of their divorce, I used to be equally stunned, and never stunned on the identical time.”
GQ shared a quote from the Affleck interview on Instagram. Customers of the app additionally weighed in on the pair, collectively referred to as Bennifer, coming to an finish after simply over two years of marriage.
“Jen is best with out this man,” learn one Instagram remark. Nonetheless, one other Instagram poster gave a conflicting opinion by declaring, “He appears rather a lot higher with out her.”
A 3rd on X stated, “How embarrassing to have to speak about his ex to be related. Nobody cares about Affleck’s films anymore, so he resorts to speaking about JLo.”
JLo subtly addressed her divorce from Affleck as effectively. “The Marriage ceremony Planner” actress spoke with Interview Journal.
“It’s important to be full, in order for you one thing that’s extra full. It’s important to be good by yourself,” Lopez expressed in October 2024. “I believed I discovered that, however I didn’t. After which, this summer season, I needed to be like, ‘I have to go off and be alone. I need to show to myself that I can try this.’”
Whereas the Bennifer 2.0 experiment failed, Affleck has reportedly grown nearer to his first ex-wife and mom of his three kids 18-year-old Violet, 15-year-old Fin, and 12-year-old Samuel. The 2 had been beforehand married from June 2005 to October 2018.
“I’m actually fortunate that I’ve a very good co-parent and companion in Jennifer Garner, the youngsters’ mother, who’s fantastic and nice, and we work collectively effectively,” Affleck confessed within the GQ piece.
Lopez filed divorce papers in 2024, hours after Affleck and Garner traveled collectively from Connecticut to California. The well-known co-parents had been getting back from dropping off their daughter Violet at Yale College.
Based on studies, Affleck and Garner additionally shared high quality time in the course of the 2024 Christmas season. They’ve additionally noticed out collectively at Brentwood neighborhood occasion and a paintball outing.
Garner’s rediscovered connection to Affleck supposedly has nervous her boyfriend, John Miller. The Golden Globe Award winner’s suitor is alleged to be discovering it “very arduous” to “largely staying quiet” about his girlfriend serving as a “mediator” for her ex.
Lopez additionally confronted scrutiny a few new potential boyfriend after the mom of two was romantically linked to her “Workplace Romance” Netflix movie co-star Brett Goldstein.
The “Love Don’t Price a Factor” singer-songwriter has been hitched 4 instances. Along with Affleck, Lopez was married to Ojani Noa from 1997 to 1998, Cris Judd from 2001 to 2003, and Marc Anthony from 2004 to 2014. Anthony is the daddy of JLo’s 17-year-old twins, Emme Muñiz and Maximilian Muñiz.