Jennifer Lopez says her and Ben Affleck's split 20 years ago was so "painful" that she thought she would "die". In a new interview, the singer opened up about his latest Affleck-inspired album and what the actor-director had to say about some seemingly personal songs.
Lopez, 53, spoke to Apple Music's Zane Lowe about her upcoming album This Is Me...Now, the follow-up to her successful 2002 project This Is Me...Then.
"Twenty years ago, I fell in love with the love of my life," explained Lopez. "Now, the most amazing, incredible, incredible thing has happened... We're here because I want to capture this moment in time. After all, it's even better than the first time."
After rekindling their relationship, Affleck and Lopez got married (twice!) that summer. The Gigli co-stars initially broke off their engagement in 2004.
Lopez recalled, "It was so painful after we broke up. Once we broke up that marriage 20 years ago, it was the biggest heartbreak of my life. I honestly felt like I was going to die." I'm leaving." "It sent me spiraling into the next 18 years where I couldn't get it right. I couldn't get it right. But now, 20 years later, it has a happy ending. It's everything I'd ever do" —Yeh Happens at the end of Hollywood. 'never going to happen. We're not going to write it because nobody will believe the end of it."
Lopez said that when she and Affleck got back together, he scolded her for not performing songs about him on This Is Me... Then.
"I was like, 'You're right. It was painful.' Then it was a part of me that had to keep going and survive. It was a survival strategy without a doubt," López recalled. (By the way, he said Affleck "knows all the words" to the songs on that album.)
"This Is Me... So I captured the moment I fell in love with the love of my life. It's all on record. I didn't even realize what was happening and what I was doing " recalled, Lopez. "Every song we wrote there, my writing 'Dear Ben', was a special moment to be captured."
Lopez said that the media frenzy surrounding their relationship all those years ago "destroyed us".
"That was the part that destroyed us, was the outside energy coming at us. And we loved each other, it was hard. It felt unfair sometimes, but neither of us is that person, Oh." Me. So we thought, 'Okay, we just have to dust it off and keep it going.' And I think, weirdly, that's what inspired both of us to convert and do the things that we were doing, which is a kind of hypervelocity," he said, noting that he had " Had to do it separately." He went into hyperdrive and I went into hyperdrive. But not together. We had to do it separately... It fed us in a weird way that we felt like we had to prove ourselves again. To do."
Lopez indicated that This Is Me... Now would feature individual songs similar to its predecessor.
"We captured ourselves at this moment when I met the love of my life and we decided that we were going to be together forever. The whole message of the album is that this love exists. This is real love." is. Now I guess what's the message of the album? The album If you wonder that, like me, sometimes, you've lost hope, almost given up, don't. Because true love exists and some things always And it's real,' the Marry Me star shared.
"I want to get that message out to the world and that requires a lot of vulnerability. But I couldn't stop myself and parts of it scare me. And I think parts of it scare Ben too. He Like, 'Oh, do you mean all these things? And I was like, 'I don't know how to do it, honey,'" Lopez joked.
Lopez, 53, spoke to Apple Music's Zane Lowe about her upcoming album This Is Me...Now, the follow-up to her successful 2002 project This Is Me...Then.
"Twenty years ago, I fell in love with the love of my life," explained Lopez. "Now, the most amazing, incredible, incredible thing has happened... We're here because I want to capture this moment in time. After all, it's even better than the first time."
After rekindling their relationship, Affleck and Lopez got married (twice!) that summer. The Gigli co-stars initially broke off their engagement in 2004.
Lopez recalled, "It was so painful after we broke up. Once we broke up that marriage 20 years ago, it was the biggest heartbreak of my life. I honestly felt like I was going to die." I'm leaving." "It sent me spiraling into the next 18 years where I couldn't get it right. I couldn't get it right. But now, 20 years later, it has a happy ending. It's everything I'd ever do" —Yeh Happens at the end of Hollywood. 'never going to happen. We're not going to write it because nobody will believe the end of it."
Lopez said that when she and Affleck got back together, he scolded her for not performing songs about him on This Is Me... Then.
"I was like, 'You're right. It was painful.' Then it was a part of me that had to keep going and survive. It was a survival strategy without a doubt," López recalled. (By the way, he said Affleck "knows all the words" to the songs on that album.)
"This Is Me... So I captured the moment I fell in love with the love of my life. It's all on record. I didn't even realize what was happening and what I was doing " recalled, Lopez. "Every song we wrote there, my writing 'Dear Ben', was a special moment to be captured."
Lopez said that the media frenzy surrounding their relationship all those years ago "destroyed us".
"That was the part that destroyed us, was the outside energy coming at us. And we loved each other, it was hard. It felt unfair sometimes, but neither of us is that person, Oh." Me. So we thought, 'Okay, we just have to dust it off and keep it going.' And I think, weirdly, that's what inspired both of us to convert and do the things that we were doing, which is a kind of hypervelocity," he said, noting that he had " Had to do it separately." He went into hyperdrive and I went into hyperdrive. But not together. We had to do it separately... It fed us in a weird way that we felt like we had to prove ourselves again. To do."
Lopez indicated that This Is Me... Now would feature individual songs similar to its predecessor.
"We captured ourselves at this moment when I met the love of my life and we decided that we were going to be together forever. The whole message of the album is that this love exists. This is real love." is. Now I guess what's the message of the album? The album If you wonder that, like me, sometimes, you've lost hope, almost given up, don't. Because true love exists and some things always And it's real,' the Marry Me star shared.
"I want to get that message out to the world and that requires a lot of vulnerability. But I couldn't stop myself and parts of it scare me. And I think parts of it scare Ben too. He Like, 'Oh, do you mean all these things? And I was like, 'I don't know how to do it, honey,'" Lopez joked.