Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck may have broken up once, but they’re not
letting go anytime soon. In a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1,
Lopez opened up about her relationship with her now-husband and the trials
and tribulations they’ve had to endure during their on-and-off-and-on-again
relationship.
Talking about their relationship of two
decades ago, Lopez said they became “crazy about each other” while filming
their 2003 movie Gigli. As the two made their relationship official to the
public, however, the media and critics got the better of them.
“It
was a new thing and it destroyed us,” Lopez said of the media attention at
the time. “That was part of what destroyed us was the outside energy that
was coming at us. And we loved each other. It was hard.”
Lopez continued, saying that neither of them wanted to
say “woe is me” given the circumstances. “So we were like, ‘well, we just
got to dust it off and keep it moving,'” she said. The two then broke things
off before their wedding in 2004.
“I think, in the weirdest way,
that it motivated both of us to then become and do the things that we wound
up doing, which is going into hyper-gear.” Lopez explained, noting that both
of their ambitions (and careers) skyrocketed post-breakup. “He went into
hyper-gear and I went into hyper-gear,” she recalled. “But not together. We
had to do it separately. He went on to start directing, win his Oscar, do
his second Oscar, do his thing where people had written him off in a way.
The same thing with me.”
Also in the candid talk, Lopez
shared her inspiration behind her newly-announced album “This Is Me…Now,” a
somewhat sequel to her 2002 album “This Is Me…Then.” She shared with Lowe,
“20 years ago I feel in love with the love of my life and I was working on
an album and it was called ‘This Is Me… Then’ and it was all about capturing
that moment in time.”
Explaining the process of making the
new album, Lopez said she sat down with her team and shared similar
sentiments, saying, “the reason that we’re here is because I want to capture
this moment in time because it’s even better than the first time.”
Lopez
added, “When I’m in love is when I’m inspired.”
In love indeed!
It’s easy to see how smitten Lopez truly is during this interview with Lowe,
so we can’t hope for the album to come out in 2023!
