{"id":176954,"date":"2025-09-29T05:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176954\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:08:06","slug":"jennifer-lopez-makes-rare-comments-on-ben-affleck-divorce-ben-affleck-jennifer-lopez-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176954\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez Makes Rare Comments on Ben Affleck Divorce | Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jennifer-lopez\/\" title=\"Jennifer Lopez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Lopez<\/a> is speaking out about her divorce from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ben-affleck\/\" title=\"Ben Affleck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Affleck<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old entertainer made an appearance on CBS News Sunday Morning on Sunday (September 28), where she reflected on the split and found an upside to the experience. <\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>On the show, JLo called the breakup and the personal insight she got from it was \u201cthe best thing that ever happened to me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it changed me,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt helped me grow in a way that I needed to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer went on Sunday Morning to promote her new movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/08\/20\/jennifer-lopez-sings-in-kiss-of-the-spider-woman-movie-musical-trailer-bringing-the-hit-broadway-show-to-the-screen-watch-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiss of the Spider Woman<\/a>, which Ben serves as an executive producer on. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>While recalling working on the film during a tough time in her personal life, she said, \u201cIt was a really tough time. Every moment on set, every moment I was doing this role, I was so happy, and then it was like, back home, it was not great. And it was just like, oh, you know, \u2018How do I reconcile this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After reconnecting, JLo and Ben were reported to be dating in April 2021 and were engaged a year later. The couple then tied the knot in July 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly two years later, Jennifer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/08\/20\/jennifer-lopez-files-for-divorce-from-ben-affleck-surprising-details-revealed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> filed for divorce<\/a> in April 2024, and by January 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/01\/06\/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-finalize-divorce-nearly-5-months-after-she-filed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it was finalized<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez is speaking out about her divorce from Ben Affleck. The 56-year-old entertainer made an appearance on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-176954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}