Jennifer Lopez Reveals How She Reunited With Ben Affleck After Nearly 20 Years

So much for a reunion with an old flame facebook.

Jennifer Lopez said in a new interview Fashion Tuesday that she and Ben Affleck rekindled their relationship in the early 2000s via email after nearly 20 years apart.

Affleck, who had just parted ways with his pandemic-induced flame Ana de Armas, reached out to the Marry Me actor after she and Alex Rodriguez broke off the engagement.

According to Vogue’s round-up of events, Affleck told Lopez that another magazine reached out for a comment on her “and he wanted her to know he was throwing a rave.” The magazine reported that they continued to communicate after the first letter and began visiting each other.

“Obviously we weren’t trying to go public,” Lopez said. “But I never shied away from the fact that for me, I always felt like there was real love there, real love. People in my life know that he was a very, very special person in my life. When we reunited, those feelings for me were still very real.”

Affleck and Lopez at a film screening in Los Angeles "Marry me" in Feb.  8 in Los Angeles.
Affleck and Lopez at the screening of “Marry Me” in Los Angeles on February 20. 8 in Los Angeles.

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“Don’t discredit anything in between what happened because it was all real too,” she said. “All we ever wanted was to kind of come to a state of peace in our lives where we really felt that love that you feel when you’re very young and wonder if you can have it again.”

After bath offer and two weddings (one in Vegas, one in Georgia), they are now working on merging their families.

“Transitioning is a process that needs to be treated with extreme caution,” Lopez said of her twins Emma and Max, whom she shares with ex Marc Anthony. Affleck has three children – Violet, Serafina and Samuel, whom he shares with Jennifer Garner.

“They have so many feelings. They are teenagers. But so far it’s going very well,” she said, adding that Garner is “a wonderful parent and they work very well together.”

Lopez wears a Valentino Haute Couture dress on the cover of Vogue December 2022.
Lopez wears a Valentino Haute Couture dress on the cover of Vogue December 2022.

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Their kids played a nice role at the couple’s second wedding in Georgia, which Lopez detailed in her OJLo newsletter in September.

All five children walked down the aisle ahead of the singer and stood next to their parents during the wedding ceremony.

“We not only married each other; we married these kids into a new family,” Lopez wrote in her newsletter. “They were the only people we asked to stand up for us at our wedding. To our great honor and joy, everyone did it.”

To learn more about the Lopez profile, go to Fashion. The December issue of the magazine will go on sale November 11. fifteen