{"id":2055923,"date":"2025-09-28T17:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2055923"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:30:18","slug":"jennifer-lopez-shares-how-ben-affleck-divorce-encouraged-personal-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jennifer-lopez-shares-how-ben-affleck-divorce-encouraged-personal-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez Shares How Ben Affleck Divorce Encouraged Personal Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<hr data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"1.0\">THE RUNDOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li data-node-id=\"2.0\">Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck divorced in 2024 after two years of marriage.<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"2.1\">Lopez recently shared how the experience changed her.<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"2.2\">She stated she believed it encouraged necessary growth and was the \u201cbest thing\u201d that could have happened.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">On September 28, Jennifer Lopez\u2019s interview with Lee Cowan on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k483keDRsys\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k483keDRsys\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"CBS News Sunday Morning\" data-node-id=\"4.1\" class=\"body-link css-inlxvj emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"4.1.0\">CBS News Sunday Morning<\/em><\/a> 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 \u201cthe best thing that ever happened to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cBecause it changed me,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt helped me grow in a way that I needed to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-12\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Lopez made an appearance on the program to promote <em data-node-id=\"7.1\">Kiss of the Spider Woman<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"recirculation\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-13\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cIt was a really tough time,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cEvery 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, \u2018How do I work inside of this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"youtube\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-14\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-15\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-yj5rqk e94w1mj9\">\n<h6 class=\"css-12xbh4x e94w1mj7\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-before\" class=\"css-0 eagam8p0\"\/><span class=\"css-8lle59 e94w1mj5\">Related Stories<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-after\" class=\"css-0 eagam8p1\"\/><\/h6>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"12\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">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\u2019s Georgia estate in August of that year. Lopez filed for divorce in 2024, citing irreconcilable differences.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"13\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">In May 2025, Affleck reflected on public interest on the end of their relationship during an interview with <em data-node-id=\"13.1\"\/><em data-node-id=\"13.2\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/inside-ben-afflecks-plan-to-remake-hollywood\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/inside-ben-afflecks-plan-to-remake-hollywood\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"GQ\" data-vars-ga-product-id=\"98bec720-469e-46fe-9490-d6ee6416ab17\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-node-id=\"13.2.0\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/inside-ben-afflecks-plan-to-remake-hollywood\" data-product-url=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/inside-ben-afflecks-plan-to-remake-hollywood\" data-affiliate=\"false\" data-affiliate-network=\"\" data-vars-ga-product-price=\"$0.00\" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id=\"c51cfe55-701d-4b58-9799-176aea159c66\" data-vars-ga-link-treatment=\"(not set) | (not set)\" data-vars-ga-axid=\"0213c91a-74b9-4a45-beee-a7530711ca70\" class=\"body-link product-links css-inlxvj e1aq0z090\">GQ<\/a>,<\/em> saying, \u201cI guess there\u2019s a tendency to look at breakups and want to identify root causes or something. But honestly&#8230;the truth is much more quotidian than probably people would believe or would be interesting. Yeah, there\u2019s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue. The truth is, when you talk to somebody, \u2018Hey, what happened?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"14\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">He continued, \u201cWell, there is no: \u2018This is what happened.\u2019 It\u2019s 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\u2019s true for most people, there is no \u2018So-and-so did this\u2019 or \u2018This was the big event.\u2019<em data-node-id=\"14.1\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.elle.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cbest thing\u201d that could have happened. On September 28, Jennifer Lopez\u2019s interview with Lee Cowan on CBS News Sunday Morning aired, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2055924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[274717,382492,285977,285684,382491],"class_list":["post-2055923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-7682858e-a604-4447-96a5-21a1a2b95127","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-jennifer-lopez-reflects-on-ben-affleck-divorce"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jennifer-Lopez-Shares-How-Ben-Affleck-Divorce-Encouraged-Personal-Growth.pjpeg.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}