THE RUNDOWN
- Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck divorced in 2024 after two years of marriage.
- Lopez recently shared how the experience changed her.
- She stated she believed it encouraged necessary growth and was the “best thing” that could have happened.
On September 28, Jennifer Lopez’s interview with Lee Cowan on CBS News Sunday Morning aired, and the star shared some insight on her divorce from Ben Affleck. J.Lo reflected on how the experienced changed her, saying she ultimately felt that it was “the best thing that ever happened to me.”
“Because it changed me,” she continued. “It helped me grow in a way that I needed to grow.”
Lopez made an appearance on the program to promote Kiss of the Spider Woman, a film on which Affleck serves as executive producer. While filming, Lopez was struggling at home and revealed the contrast between her experience on set versus within her marriage.
“It was a really tough time,” Lopez said. “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, ‘How do I work inside of this?’”
Lopez and Affleck first dated almost 20 years ago before reconnecting in 2021 and marrying in Las Vegas in July 2022. They had a second ceremony on Affleck’s Georgia estate in August of that year. Lopez filed for divorce in 2024, citing irreconcilable differences.
In May 2025, Affleck reflected on public interest on the end of their relationship during an interview with GQ, saying, “I guess there’s a tendency to look at breakups and want to identify root causes or something. But honestly…the truth is much more quotidian than probably people would believe or would be interesting. Yeah, there’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue. The truth is, when you talk to somebody, ‘Hey, what happened?’”
He continued, “Well, there is no: ‘This is what happened.’ 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.’
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