Ben Affleck has mentioned all there’s to say about his cut up from Jennifer Lopez.
The “Flash” actor, 52, is reportedly “done” speaking about Lopez, 55, simply days after he lastly broke his silence on their stunning 2024 divorce.
“He’s done talking about JLo,” a supply near Affleck informed Folks on Friday, March 28. “He’s not proud that their marriage didn’t work out. He didn’t want to hurt her. But now he wants to just focus on his kids and work.”
“He thrives when he’s busy,” the insider added.
Affleck shares youngsters Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 13, together with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner, 52. He additionally has a number of massive tasks arising – together with “The Accountant 2” on April 25.
The supply’s remarks come after the “Deep Water” actor opened up about his and Lopez’s cut up for the primary – and apparently solely – time throughout an interview with GQ for his or her April cowl story.
Affleck informed the journal that his “life is actually pretty drama-free” and that he holds “nothing but respect” for Lopez. He additionally mentioned that there’s “no scandal” surrounding the pair’s breakup after solely two years.
“I guess there’s a tendency to look at breakups and want to identify root causes or something,” the Oscar-winning actor defined. “But honestly, like I said, the truth is much more quotidian than probably people would believe or would be interesting.”
“There’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue,” he added.
Affleck additionally emphasised that there was “no big event” that led Lopez to file for divorce in August 2024.
“The truth is, when you talk to somebody, ‘Hey, what happened?’ Well, there is no: ‘This is what happened,’” the “Air” star mentioned. “It’s just a story about people trying to figure out their lives and relationships in ways that we all sort of normally do.”
“And as you get older, this is true for me, I assume it’s true for most people, there is no ‘So-and-so did this’ or ‘This was the big event,’” he continued. “It’s really, it sounds more like a couple’s therapy session, which – you would tune out of someone else’s couple’s therapy after a while.”
Based on the insider, Affleck is “doing well” practically three months after he and Lopez finalized their divorce on January 6. In addition they mentioned that Affleck’s GQ interview was “kind of all about clearing the air one last time.”
As for Lopez, she addressed the top of Bennifer 2.0 for the primary time again in October throughout a sit-down with Interview Journal.
Though she admitted the cut up “almost took me out for good,” the star mentioned she had no regrets concerning the marriage and subsequent divorce.
“That doesn’t mean it didn’t almost take me out for good. It almost did,” the “On the Floor” singer mentioned. “But now, on the other side of it, I think to myself, ‘F–k, that is exactly what I needed. Thank you, god. I’m sorry it took me so long. I’m sorry that you had to do this to me so many times.’”
“I’m not looking for anybody,” Lopez added, “because everything that I’ve done over the past 25, 30 years, being in these different challenging situations, what can I f–king do when it’s just me flying on my own.”
Affleck and Lopez reunited in 2021 after breaking apart practically 20 years earlier. The “Justice League” actor popped the query in April 2022, and the pair married that July.
The “If You Had My Love” hitmaker then filed for divorce from Affleck in August 2024. It was finalized in January.
