How Jennifer Lopez told her kids about ‘difficult’ Ben Affleck divorce
Jennifer Lopez’s twins, Max and Emme, have been on the lead of her thoughts when she made the verdict to parting Ben Affleck.
“I said, ‘I promise you, this is a difficult time, but you’re going to see that I’ll come out the other side stronger and better,’” Lopez, 55, recalled in an interview with El País revealed Friday.
“I promised them that, and I did it. And they feel it now. That gives me a great sense of peace in my life.”
The multihyphenate shared that she is “happier” that she is “a step further along” than she was once “a year ago, two years ago, three years ago.”
She advised the Spanish outlet, “I’m proud of myself for that, and I’m proud that I was able to navigate my children through difficult times, that they’re stronger and better because of it.”
Lopez — who filed for divorce from Affleck, 52, in August 2024 upcoming two years of marriage — admitted she “had a really tough year,” throughout which “unexpected things happened,” together with canceling her tour.
“Everybody goes through hard times in their life. And it’s what you do in those moments that really does define you,” she defined.
“Not the relationship, not the man. What defines you is what you’re doing with the experiences that you’re faced with. I take those experiences — whether they’re good or bad — and I bind them.”
The singer were given in the course of the lightless days via studying, meditating, doing self-introspection, praying and specializing in her youngsters, who at the moment are 17.
“And over the years, I’ve done individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy. I’ve had everything. I’m always kind of searching,” she shared, noting that she has made it a concern to be told about herself and alter.
“Over the past year, I really dug deep into what are the patterns that I’ve had and why they happen and what is it about me that’s creating these patterns,” Lopez perceivable, insisting that she is “able to be more self-aware” now.
In spite of the society scrutiny circumstance her love month, the actress remainder assured.
“I’m very aware of all the things that people say and think about me, and that’s OK because I really do know who I am, and I know my heart, and my intentions are good and pure,” she mentioned, stating that “everybody makes mistakes,” which is one thing she “needed to learn.”
Lopez laughed as she said that she is “not exempt from the human condition,” elaborating, “I also have to go through things, right? I must make these lessons my own in order to evolve and grow.”
J.Lo — who settled her divorce from the Oscar winner in January — stocks Max and Emme with her third husband, Marc Anthony.