Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Struggle with Media-Driven ‘PTSD’ From First Relationship

Jennifer Lopez says she and hubby Ben Affleck nonetheless endure from post-traumatic stress dysfunction from the media frenzy throughout their first go round as a pair over 20 years in the past.

J Lo sat down for an interview with Variety to advertise her new album and movie by the identical title, “This Is Me … Now,” which paperwork her newest love affair with Ben and their marriage in 2022.

In the course of the chat, J Lo began speaking about her first relationship with Ben again within the early 2000s, revealing they each have PTSD to today on account of the media craziness.

The 2 have been presupposed to tie the knot in 2003, however they canceled their plans and ultimately broke up.

Then, in 2021, they obtained again collectively and had a whirlwind romance earlier than strolling down the aisle collectively the next yr.

J Lo now says they’ve a a lot better deal with on all of the scrutiny that comes with fame since “we’re older” and “we’re wiser.”

She added, “We also know what’s important, what’s really important in life, and it’s not so much what other people think. It’s about being true to who you are.”

J Lo admits some members of her crew weren’t so eager on her publicly sharing the intimate particulars of her relationship with Ben.

However she ignored them, saying, “As artists, now we have to comply with our coronary heart and that is me following my coronary heart and doing one thing that perhaps everyone didn’t assume was the most effective thought, however I needed to do it.”