When Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck began relationship once more practically 20 years after calling off their marriage ceremony, their buddies had been overjoyed. And whereas their elopement confirmed “Bennifer 2.0” was right here to remain, the three phrases Affleck had engraved in Lopez’s ring confirmed it.
“One of the songs that I wrote for the album, which is on the inside of this ring right here, my engagement ring that he gave me, it says, ‘Not. Going. Anywhere,’” Lopez told Zane Lowe in an Apple Music interview launched Monday to advertise her new album, “This Is Me…Now.”
“That’s how he would sign his emails when we started talking again,” Lopez continued. “Like, ‘Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere.’
Lopez later described her initial split from Affleck as “the biggest heartbreak of my life.” The couple met in 2001 on the set of their well-known field workplace flop “Gigli” and had been engaged the subsequent yr, solely to postpone their marriage ceremony in 2003 and formally name it quits in 2004.
Lowe stated the relentless media protection of their relationship, which was coined “Bennifer” within the press, was not like another in fashionable Hollywood on the time. He informed Lopez there “wasn’t a case study before you two came along,” which Lopez wholeheartedly agreed with.
“No, it was a new thing,” Lopez informed Lowe. “It destroyed us. That was part of what destroyed us, the outside energy that was coming at us. And we loved each other. It was hard. It felt at times unfair, but neither one of us is that person, to be like, ‘Woe is me.’”
The media consideration that reportedly spurred their cut up apparently hasn’t been a difficulty this time. Affleck and Lopez, who ended her relationship with Alex Rodriguez final yr, wed in Las Vegas in July.
The couple adopted that up with a ceremony at Affleck’s property in Savannah, Georgia, which was attended by director Kevin Smith, Affleck’s “Good Will Hunting” co-star and childhood pal Matt Damon and the couple’s children from their earlier marriages.
“We weren’t only marrying one another; we were marrying these children into a new family,” Lopez wrote in her publication on the time, per Page Six. “They were the only people we asked to stand up for us in our wedding party. To our great honor and joy, each one did.”
