Jennifer Lopez<\/strong> is opening up about how she \u201cbarely\u201d managed to deal with her 2024 split from Ben Affleck<\/strong> after their whirlwind second-chance romance.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a really tough time,\u201d the actress \u2014 who was making her new musical movie, Kiss of the Spider Woman, at the time \u2014 told CBS Sunday Morning<\/a> in an interview that aired on Sunday, September 28.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery moment on set, I was so happy and then back home it was not great. And it was just like, \u2018How do I reconcile this?\u2019 But you get through it,\u201d Lopez explained.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd you know, honestly, I have to say, it was the best thing that ever happened to me, because it helped me grow in a way I needed to grow, become more self aware,\u201d the 56-year-old continued. \u201cI\u2019m a different person<\/a> than I was last year, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n On The JLO<\/span><\/p>\n After dating from 2002 to 2004, Lopez<\/a> and Affleck, 53, got back together in 2021 and he became her fourth husband in 2022. She released an album, a musical film, This Is Me\u2026 Now: A Love Story and a documentary celebrating the rekindled romance two months before they separated<\/a> in April, 2024.<\/p>\n Now, the \u201cLet\u2019s Get Loud\u201d singer told CBS Sunday Morning, she\u2019s learned to stop putting \u201cpressure\u201d on herself to expect everything in life to work out the way she wants it to.<\/p>\n \u201cI realize that the joy is in living and really embracing life and everything that it brings to you,\u201d she said. \u201cThe hard times are the lessons. You have to understand that and once you do, everything just becomes a little bit lighter and you can really really fly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jennifer Lopez is opening up about how she \u201cbarely\u201d managed to deal with her 2024 split from Ben Affleck after their whirlwind second-chance romance. \u201cIt was a really tough time,\u201d the actress \u2014 who was making her new musical movie, Kiss of the Spider Woman, at the time \u2014 told CBS Sunday Morning in an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2058672,"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":[25173],"tags":[29466,342205,22265],"class_list":["post-2058671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-ben-affleck","tag-cbs-sunday-morning","tag-jennifer-lopez"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759192876_Jennifer-Lopez-Says-Shes-\u2018A-Different-Person-After-Divorce-From.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058671","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=2058671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2058672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/span><\/div>\n