Ben Affleck Embraces Latina Love Post-Jennifer Lopez Divorce

Ben Affleck has a humorousness about his love life within the wake of his cut up from Jennifer Lopez.

The actor, 52, was approached by TMZ whereas out for dinner at Lavo Ristorante in West Hollywood on Thursday, Might 8 and was requested how “Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor” was feeling in Spanish.

Taking the remark in his stride, Affleck laughed off the query and replied in Spanish, “Muy bien,” which interprets to “excellent.”

The outlet then requested Affleck: “Do you continue to like Latinas?” Affleck didn’t hesitate when replying, “After all I do.”

Affleck is fluent in Spanish after choosing up the language whereas filming a kids’s TV present in Mexico for a yr when he was 13. His ex-wife Lopez, 55, is among the most distinguished Latin-American singers and actresses in Hollywood.

Lopez filed for a dissolution of marriage from Affleck on August 20, 2024. The previous couple finalized the divorce in January this yr, in response to paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on the time.

Lopez and Affleck had been linked for greater than 20 years. The actors met on the set of Gigli in 2001, earlier than changing into engaged in November 2002. They had been initially scheduled to get married in September 2003, however they referred to as off their marriage ceremony days earlier than the deliberate ceremony. They confirmed their cut up in January 2004.

Many years later, Lopez and Affleck discovered their method again to at least one one other in Might 2021 and have become engaged for the second time in April 2022. They married in Las Vegas in July 2022 and in addition had a second ceremony in Georgia the next month.

Affleck not too long ago broke his silence on his cut up with Lopez in an interview with GQ journal that was printed on March 25.

Throughout the interview, the Hypnotic actor referenced The Biggest Love Story By no means Instructed, the documentary he filmed with Lopez throughout their marriage that make clear their relationship. Affleck stated it was “vital to say” that there wasn’t “some main fracture” in his and Lopez’s marriage that exists within the documentary.

“It’s not like you may watch that documentary and go, ‘Oh, now I perceive the problems that these two had,’” he stated.

Affleck added that he was filled with respect for his ex-wife and claimed that there was no single trigger that led to the demise of their marriage.

“There’s an inclination to take a look at breakups and wish to establish root causes or one thing. However actually … the reality is far more quotidian than in all probability individuals would consider or could be attention-grabbing,” he continued. “There’s no scandal, no cleaning soap opera, no intrigue [about our divorce]. The reality is, whenever you discuss to someone, ‘Hey, what occurred?’ Effectively, there isn’t a, ‘That is what occurred.’”