Jennifer Lopez is taking the blame for her divorce from Ben Affleck.During a recent conversation with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett on their "Smartless" podcast, the 56-year-old actress and singer reflected on her marriage to Affleck and how their divorce led her to make changes in the way she lives her life."There's been different times where I felt like, whether people outside knew it or not, where I feel like my life blew up in my own face, and it was because of the choices I made," she said."But also because of the fact that I had things that needed to change about myself that I didn't understand or recognize that was attracting certain things and attracting a certain type of experience into my life."She went on to say that recognizing you need to make changes in your life is a choice, and that she made that choice after her divorce from Affleck, saying, "I canceled my tour and I sat there, and I was just like, you need to f---ing figure yourself out."Lopez said her divorce from Affleck made her reevaluate her actions.
(James Devaney/GC Images)BEN AFFLECK SETS RECORD STRAIGHT ABOUT JENNIFER LOPEZ SPLIT, PRAISES 'WONDERFUL' JENNIFER GARNER"What is going on with you? Forget about everybody else," she recalled thinking."There's nobody to blame here except yourself in a certain way.
Not that people don't behave in a way that's not great, but what are you doing? What do you have going on? And that was that was a turning point for me.And that was a couple of years ago now."Affleck and Lopez tied the knot in July 2022 in a small ceremony in Las Vegas, before throwing a bigger celebration a month later at Affleck's estate in Georgia.After nearly two years of marriage, the couple separated in April 2024, with Lopez filing for divorce a few months later, in August.The couple originally dated from 2002 to 2004 after meeting on the set of the 2003 movie, "Gigli." The two were engaged for over a year before calling it quits initially, and reconnected early in ...