Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have revealed what led to their cancelled 2003 wedding.
The couple, famously dubbed Bennifer, got back together in May 2021 – 17 years after they called off their engagement.
The pair broke up just three days before their wedding back in 2003.
In Jennifer’s new documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, the singer and her now-husband recount how things went wrong days before their planned nuptials.
The 54-year-old actress said: “Ben and I, we broke up three days before our wedding.”
“We had a big wedding planned — 14 ushers and bridesmaids, and three days before we just crumbled under the pressure.”
Affleck agreed, and told the cameras: “When Jen and I broke up before, the catalyst for that was the massive amount of scrutiny around our private life.”
The director of her new film Dave Meyers, recalled how Jennifer was during the tumultuous time: “When her and Ben first broke up, it was catastrophic to her constitution, everything that she wanted from what she understood love to be.”
“For that to not work, for the pressures to break it apart, it just spun her out.”
The Jenny From The Block singer agreed and said: “For all those years it was really hard, because I didn’t just feel like I lost the love of my life, I felt like I lost the best friend that I ever had.”
“And I couldn’t talk for so many years, and that was the hardest part.”
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Ben asked: “I think for us to move on from that, we have to forgive it, forgive each other. Do you forgive me?”
Jennifer responded with just a smile.
Later, she expanded on those feelings, telling her now-husband: “That heartbreak set both of us on a course to figuring ourselves out and to being better people.”
“Do you think you’ve forgiven me all the way?” he asked again.
“Yeah, I think I’ve forgiven you all the way,” she responded. “I think I need to forgive myself some things.”
The “it” couple of the early noughties tied the knot in a Las Vegas ceremony in July 2022.
Their love story is depicted through Jennifer’s brand new song, This Is Me…Now.
Jennifer then added: “I feel like I came out the other side. I’ve made it through. I’ve made something good of my life. I’m proud of that.”
“But one of the parts of that was admitting to myself you’re not perfect, you’re not completely whole. And you know what?”
“Something that’s worn and older and broken like a nice leather jacket or an old pair of boots is really beautiful. And kind of embracing the beauty of the scars that we pick up along the way.”
