In the early 2000s, the artists cancelled their wedding and parted ways.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck first met in the early 2000s. They began a romance that quickly escalated. In 2004, the couple was set to marry, but Affleck called off the wedding three days prior, leading to their separation. Affleck later married actress Jennifer Garner, with whom he shares three children. Lopez also married multiple times and became a mother twice. In 2021, the former lovers reunited and, a year later, they tied the knot.

The actors didn’t talk about why the wedding didn’t happen in the early 2000s. But in a recent interview, Jennifer decided to shed some light on the mystery. The artist confessed that she and Ben backed each other into a corner. Each of them needed to figure themselves out. ‘Our relationship collapsed under pressure. We lost ourselves, and we needed to break up because we didn’t know how to handle it all. I needed to figure myself out, and he needed to figure himself out,’ the celebrity noted.

However, after Lopez and Affleck’s wedding, rumors began to circulate that Jennifer was keeping her husband on a tight leash. The singer and actor prefer not to comment on their relationship. ‘The 20 years between youthful dreams and the adult world of love and family that we embraced on that day brought more to this marriage than either of us could have ever imagined,’ says J.Lo. There are also those who believe that this marriage is short-lived. The first husband of Lopez expressed his opinion on this matter.

I wish her and Ben all the best, but I don’t think their marriage will last long. Jen likes to fall in love, but she’s been engaged six times. Ben is her fourth husband. I was husband number one, and she told me I was the love of her life. When we were lying in bed on our wedding night, she said we would be together forever,» noted Ojani Noa.