Jennifer Lopez Opens Up About Positive Impact of Ben Affleck Divorce: ‘I’m a Different Person Now’

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez person said precise small successful nationalist astir their 2024 divorce. But successful a caller sit-down interrogation with CBS Sunday Morning‘s Lee Cowan implicit the play to beforehand her starring relation successful the upcoming remake of Kiss of the Spider Woman, Lopez opened up astir however her fairy communicative 2nd accidental and past consequent 2nd divided with Affleck was really a bully thing.

In fact, Lopez told Cowan that her divorcement from Affleck was “the champion happening that ever happened to me.” Lopez praised Affleck’s independent, artist-led studio, Artist Equity, for helping to concern the philharmonic play that is slated to unfastened connected Oct. 10, describing how, “I told him [Affleck] that this was the relation I was calved to play and I wanted to bash it and helium was like, ‘Okay,’ and helium helped marque it happen.” The Accountant 2 histrion is 1 of the enforcement producers connected the task that is the 2nd large surface adaptation of Argentine writer Manuel Puig’s 1976 caller astir the intimate conversations betwixt 2 Argentine prisoners.

Lopez called the filming of the movie a “refuge” from reasoning astir the chaos of her idiosyncratic beingness astatine the time. “It was similar the champion and the worst of times successful a mode due to the fact that it was each infinitesimal connected acceptable and each infinitesimal I was doing this role… I was truthful blessed and past it was, like, backmost location it was not large and it was conscionable like, ‘How bash I reconcile this?,'” she said.

She past added, seemingly of the couple’s divorce, “it was the champion happening that ever happened to me, due to the fact that it changed me… it didn’t alteration me… it helped maine turn successful a mode that I needed to grow. Become much self-aware. I’m a antithetic idiosyncratic present than I was past twelvemonth I think.”

Lopez and Affleck archetypal dated successful 2022 and got engaged earlier breaking up and past reconnecting successful 2021, getting joined the pursuing twelvemonth and divorcing past year. Speaking astir the divorcement successful March of this year, Affleck told GQ that Lopez was “somebody I person a batch of respect for,” noting that, “I get wanting to divine oregon research the benignant of differences successful position that we person successful presumption of however a idiosyncratic feels comfy approaching the enactment betwixt nationalist and backstage life. But I reall...