Ben is on her thoughts.
Jennifer Lopez briefly mentioned her spouse Ben Affleck on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night amid the ongoing rumors that the couple’s relationship is slipping apart.
The “Hustlers” actress, 54, advised Jimmy Kimmel about meeting Barbra Streisand early in her career when she was originally engaged to Affleck, 51, in the early 2000s.
“She was inquiring me to look at my engagement ring at the time that Ben experienced offered me decades in the past,” Lopez recalled of her interaction with Streisand, 82.
Lopez explained that Streisand instructed her, “So which is a major diamond.’”
“And I was like, ‘Yes, it is,’ ” Lopez added.
Lopez and Affleck had been originally together from 2002 to 2004. They finished their engagement in January 2004 following delaying their wedding ceremony “due to the too much media attention” that surrounded the pair at the time.
Subsequent the breakup, Affleck went on to marry Jennifer Garner in 2005. The few had three children — Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12 — prior to their divorce in 2018.
Lopez, for her component, married fellow musician Marc Anthony in 2004, having twins Max and Emme, 16, with him in advance of the few ended up divorced in 2014.
Affleck and Lopez reunited just about two many years soon after they named off their first engagement. They married in July 2022 in Las Vegas just after a 3-thirty day period engagement.
They later staged a a lot more elaborate ceremony the following month in entrance of pals and relatives.
But in the very last week, the few have been matter to split rumors.
It all commenced when Lopez attended the 2024 Fulfilled Gala solo. Then, it was claimed that Affleck is remaining at a different property from Lopez, who was noticed residence looking without having her husband.
The A-listers were being not noticed in public together for 47 times right up until May possibly 16, when they arrived individually at an event for 1 of their youngsters in Los Angeles.
In spite of stepping out many moments with each other afterwards, Affleck was not at the LA premiere for Lopez’s new Netflix motion picture, “Atlas,” on Monday night time.
The “Let’s Get Loud” singer arrived to the pink carpet function all on her personal, but she did have her wedding ring on.
Earlier that day, Affleck was photographed shooting “The Accountant 2” in LA.
Amid the rumors about their relationship, InTouch reported that Lopez and Affleck are in treatment to get the job done on their concerns.
“Ben believes in treatment, to a position, and is willing to be a fantastic activity about collaborating with an open up thoughts, even even though he hates the total humiliating approach,” a source instructed the outlet.
Lopez and Affleck have not publicly resolved the break up rumors.