"Poor Ben": Internet Slams Jennifer Lopez For Sharing Ben Affleck's Private Love Letters
Ben Affleck was not happy when Jennifer Lopez shared his private love letters with people.
People are speculating that Ben Affleck is tired of Jennifer Lopez's shenanigans.
Lopez's latest documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, a self-financed 20 million dollar project, explores the actress's love life. But her friend Jane Fonda had "concerns" about her and the way she portrayed Ben Affleck's reunion. It seems that the "Love Don't Cost a Thing" singer tries too hard to look picture-perfect when she's with her man. Even I've seen my fair share of Affleck and Lopez's PR relationship theories on social media.
Fonda spoke for all of us. “I want you to know that I don’t entirely know why, but I feel invested in you and Ben, and I really want this to work,” Fonda tells Lopez in the documentary. “However, this is my concern. Like, it feels too much like you’re trying to prove something instead of just living it. You know, every other photograph is the two of you kissing and the two of you hugging.”
“That’s just us living our life,” Lopez says.
When the 2023 Grammys showed Affleck appearing disgruntled, Fonda says, “I got real scared, you know, with all that shit about the Grammys, and he looks unhappy, and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, what’s happening?’”
“Nothing!" Lopez responds. "He was like, ‘I’ve become the symbol of the beleaguered man.’” So true.
If you need a refresher on Bennifer, the two fell in love in the early 2000s, only to split up before their wedding in 2003. After divorces on both sides, the two found their way back to each other in 2021 and got hitched in the summer of 2022. Just last year, Lopez had top streaming moves on Netflix and Amazon Prime with Shotgun Wedding and The Mother – but the "world was not enough" for her, as Variety says.
Lopez considered making an album about her and Affleck's reunion. She invited musicians to her house and shared the private letters that Affleck had written her for inspo. Her husband had titled the letters "The Greatest Love Story Never Told." In the documentary, Affleck is taken aback when he sees that his private letters were, in fact, being told. “I did really find the beauty and the poetry and the irony in the fact that it’s the greatest love story never told," he says to the camera. "If you’re making a record about it, that seems kind of like telling it.”
Needless to say, the social media audience is not impressed. @elpadredebolsas writes, "Sharing personal love letters with a bunch of people without the writer’s permission seems like a very weird thing to do."
Someone else posted the iconic photo of Affleck looking depressed with a cigarette. Some people are convinced that Affleck "hates her." I think that's a stretch. He did marry her, after all, but I think most men would be upset about their privacy being invaded. That, and the constant need to publicize their romance. It's like we're witnessing an extrovert desperate for her relationship to be validated by the public (Lopez) versus an introvert who simply doesn't care what the audience thinks about his love life (Affleck).
This dynamic sounds troublesome for many, I'm sure, but it seems like they're making it work. Affleck has known Lopez long enough to understand her desire to be in the spotlight, her love for him, and how much she wants to tell their story. He's chosen her regardless, and he's actually supportive of her endeavors. So I will have to disagree with the people saying he hates her.
Lopez recalls the time when her doting husband gave her some filmmaking advice. “Ben told me, ‘You’re gonna write it, and then you’re going to film it,’” she says. “When you’re done, you’re going to do a rough cut, and you’re gonna see what it needs, and you’re gonna do three days of reshoots.’ That’s when I said, ‘I can’t do that — I don’t have any more money!’ But he was like, ‘You’re going to do a few days of reshoots, and then you’re going to go back in and edit it. And you’re going to tell your story.’”
Lopez showed Affleck the final cut last year. “He said, ‘You made a movie. For you. You made a great movie. You did it.’” Lopez gets teary. “Honestly, I don’t care what happens now. That is the biggest kind of compliment that I could get.”
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