{"id":142281,"date":"2022-11-28T22:46:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jennifer-lopez-felt-like-i-was-going-to-die-after-ben-affleck-split\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T22:46:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:46:14","slug":"jennifer-lopez-felt-like-i-was-going-to-die-after-ben-affleck-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jennifer-lopez-felt-like-i-was-going-to-die-after-ben-affleck-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez ‘felt like I was going to die’ after Ben Affleck split"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jennifer Lopez celebrates 20th anniversary of This Is Me…Now <\/em>and reflects on Ben Affleck relationship. (Photo: Barcroft Media via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Jennifer Lopez said her and Ben Affleck’s breakup was so “painful” she thought she’d “die.” In a new interview, the singer talked about her latest Affleck-inspired album and what the actor-director said she had to say about some seemingly personal lyrics.<\/p>\n

Lopez, 53, spoke to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about her forthcoming album This Is Me…Now<\/em>a follow-up to her hit 2002 project This Is Me…Then. <\/em><\/p>\n

“Twenty years ago, I fell in love with the love of my life,” Lopez explained. “Now, the most amazing, incredible, unbelievable thing has happened… the reason we’re here is because I want to capture this moment in time because it is even better than the first time.”<\/p>\n

Affleck and Lopez tied the knot (twice!) over the summer after rekindling their relationship. the Gigli <\/em>co-stars initially called off their engagement in 2004.<\/p>\n

“It was so painful after we broke up. Once we called off that wedding 20 years ago, I was \u2014 it was the biggest heartbreak of my life. I honestly felt like I was going to die,” Lopez recalled. “It sent me on a spiral for the next 18 years where I just couldn’t get it right. Couldn’t get it right. But now, 20 years later, it does have a happy ending. It has the most would-never -happen-in-Hollywood ending. ‘That would never happen. We’re not going to write that because nobody would believe it’ ending.”<\/p>\n

Lopez said that when she and Affleck got back together, he called her out for not performing songs that were about him on This Is Me…Then<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“I was like, ‘You’re right. It was painful.’ It was a part of me then that I had to put away to move on and survive. It was a survival tactic, for sure,” Lopez recalled. (By the way, she said Affleck “knows all of the words” to songs on that album.)<\/p>\n

“This Is Me…Then<\/em> Really captured a moment in time where I fell in love with the love of my life. It’s all right there on the record. I didn’t even realize what was happening and what I was doing,” Lopez remembered. “Every single song that we wrote there, me writing ‘Dear Ben,’ it was such a special moment in time to have captured.”<\/p>\n