The way Jennifer Lopez recently described her divorce from Ben Affleck was actually surprisingly positive. At first, when Jennifer and Ben reunited in 2021, their romance seemed like a perfect example of rekindled love. Years prior, in the early 2000s, they had dated and even gotten engaged. Then, after marrying and later divorcing other people, they found their way back to each other. However, the fairytale-esque second chance romance was too good to be true, as Jennifer and Ben got divorced after two years of marriage.
Interestingly, Jennifer recently described the divorce as “the best thing that ever happened” to her. (Ouch. How does Ben feel about that phrasing?)
But it’s actually because it forced her to change.
Though divorce is not pleasant, Jennifer appears to be reflecting and looking on the bright side. During the September 28 episode of CBS News Sunday Morning, the “Jenny from the Block” singer said that the difficult experience helped her grow as a person.
“You get through it,” she said. “Honestly, I have to say, it was the best thing that ever happened to me, because it changed me.”
She’s ‘a different person now.’
“It helped me grow in a way that I needed to grow,” she said. “[I] became more self-aware, I am a different person now than I was last year, a year and a half ago.” Jennifer and Ben tied the knot in July 2022, then Jennifer filed for divorce in August 2024. As she was navigating this difficult period in her life, she was also working on her new film, Kiss of the Spider Woman. To make it even more uncomfortable, Ben serves as an executive producer on the film. Yikes.
As you might imagine, Jennifer made it sound like there were a lot of ups and downs. She described it as “the best and the worst of times.”
“Every moment on set, every moment I was doing this role, I was so happy,” she said. “And then it was like, back home, it was not great. And it was just like, oh, you know, ‘How do I reconcile this?'”
Recently, fans wondered if Jennifer and Ben had rekindled their romance yet again.
Though the former couple just finalized their divorce earlier this year, a recent photo shared by Jennifer made some fans wonder whether they had gotten back together. In a September 27 Instagram post, Jennifer sported a necklace that some fans thought read “Bennifer.”
She received lots of comments like, “Am I crazy or does the necklace say Bennifer?!” In reality, though, the necklace just appeared difficult to read because it was backwards and the name was in cursive. It appears as though the necklace just reads “Jennifer,” and is not an unexpected reference to her ex.
