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Jennifer Lopez was a guest on Brett Goldstein’s Films to Be Buried With podcast.
She was emotional while explaining the film that changed her life, which was 2024’s I’m Still Here.
Lopez said she watched it with her dad when was going through her divorce from Ben Affleck.
Jennifer Lopez got emotional talking about a movie she watched following her divorce from Ben Affleck.
The singer and actress was speaking about having watched the Oscar-winning 2024 movie I’m Still Here with her father David during her appearance on her Office Romance costar Brett Goldstein’s Films to be Buried With podcast. The question to her had been to name a movie that had changed her perspective on something.
“A couple years ago, I got really sick around Christmastime,” Lopez said. “I was supposed to have this party, and I canceled it.”
The “I’m Real” singer said she was sequestered to her room, thanks to the flu and a chest infection, even though she had a lot of family in town visiting.
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She asked her dad to watch a movie with her, even though he’s not one to do that — her mom, Guadalupe, gave Lopez her love of film — but he agreed. Lopez suspected it was because she was sick.
“At that time of my life, I was going through a divorce and thinking a lot about my kids, as you do when something like that happens in your life,” said Lopez, who finalized her divorce from Ben Affleck in January 2025.
It was the end of a long relationship that began with them falling in love in 2002, after meeting on the set of Gigli, then calling off a planned wedding and breaking up altogether in 2004. They got back together in 2021, before marrying in July 2022, only for her to file for divorce two years later.
I’m Still Here tells the true story of Eunice Paiva (played by Fernanda Torres), who struggles to find her husband, former politician Rubens Pavia (played by Selton Mello), after he disappears during a military dictatorship.
“This woman spends her whole life trying to prove that her husband was real, really,” Lopez said, “that he didn’t just disappear.” She added, “I could cry right now.”
The story touched her deeply.
“My dad was sitting there and something happened in my head, and I just started crying,” Lopez said. “I started calculating all of the things with my kids, my experience with my dad, like everything happened just all at once.”
The Wedding Planner actress explained that her loved ones knew things had been tough for her, and
“My dad obviously knew I was going through — my whole family knew I was going through a hard time,” she said.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in 2024
Credit: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
When her father asked what was wrong, even though she was trying to cry quietly, she simply said that dads are important.
“And he just kind of came over to me and grabbed my face and said, ‘I love you. I always loved you,'” Lopez recounted. ” And that kind of changed my life in that moment. Because I think that sometimes as kids we don’t know if our parents love us, even though we know they love us. He knew that that’s what I needed to hear.”
For her, it was just the right thing for him to say.
“It healed a part of me, I think, that needed to be healed, to kind of move on from that part of my life and from those types of relationships in my life,” she said. “So that movie changed me and helped me grow and healed me, in a way.”
Lopez is a parent herself. She and ex-husband Marc Anthony share 18-year-old twins Emme and Max.
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