Jennifer Lopez doesn’t think she and Ben Affleck will split up again after the media “destroyed” their relationship the first time round.
The 52-year-old singer originally dated Hollywood star Ben, 49, for a couple of years in the early 2000s and were engaged, before rekindling their romance in 2021.
She said: “I don’t think we would have got back together if we thought [a break-up] was where it was headed.
“We feel like what we found again is so much more important, and how we protect that and how we live our lives – what to share, what not to share – is the balance that we have now, the benefit of experience and the wisdom that we gained over the years.”
The actress went on to claim that “criticism” of their relationship behind their first break-up, noting that the intrusion “destroyed the relationship from the inside out”.
Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine, she explained: “It’s funny because Ben and I were together, and we were so in love. It was one of the happiest times of my life.
“But also, there was this other thing happening where we were being criticised, and it really destroyed our relationship from the inside out, because we were just too young to understand at that time what were really the most important things in life.”
In the years that followed their 2004 separation, Jennifer went on marry singer Marc Anthony and had twins Maximillian and Emme, 14, with him before filing for divorce in 2011.
Ben was married to actress Jennifer Garner from 2005 until 2018 and has Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 9, with her.