Certainly, if the truth of Lopez and Affleck’s troubled relationship became known in March, it would undermine the happily-ever-after message of “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,”
For months, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck tried their best “to put on a united front,” including during the release of her new album and “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,” the pop star’s Amazon Prime documentary that offered her side of her many failed romances and her belief that she had finally true love by rekindling her romance with Affleck after 20 years.
A new report by Page Six asserts that Lopez, 54, and Affleck, 51, broke up in March, “months” before the first reports began circulating that their marriage was in trouble and that he had moved out of their marital home.
According to Page Six sources, Lopez and Affleck have been apart since March, but they hid the spit because Affleck is “very protective of Jennifer.”
That is, Affleck might have wanted to protect Lopez when she was in the midst of a major career moment. In March, she had just released her album, “This is Me … Now,” along with a complementary musical film, “This is Me … Now: A Love Story” and “The Greatest Love Story Never Told” documentary, which followed her getting back together with Affleck and marrying him in 2022.
US actress Jennifer Lopez and actor Ben Affleck arrive for a special screening of “Marry Me” at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) in Los Angeles, February 8, 2022. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
Certainly, if the truth of Lopez and Affleck’s troubled relationship became known in March, it would undermine the happily-ever-after message of “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,” whose release date was February 27. The documentary explored the complicated production of the musical film, while exposing Lopez’s “ambitions, responsibilities and insecurities with a merciless but deeply rewarding rawness,” Variety reported.
In promoting the documentary, Lopez told USA Today that she had been “on this search for so long.” The singer and actor explained that the combination of the album, the musical film and the documentary “kind of closed the loop in a way.”
“It captures this moment to really say the things I want to say about love, and that is that true love does exist and some things are forever,” Lopez told USA Today, touting her relationship with Affleck. “Please don’t give up on that because that’s all that matters in life … love.”
In “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,” Lopez seemed to get candid about her much publicized habit of cycling through relationships, engagements and marriages. At one point in the documentary, Lopez acknowledged that people are probably wondering, “What is this girl’s (expletive) problem?
Critics on social media had a field day with the documentary, with the momentum to pick it apart building in March — around the same time that Page Six said she and Affleck had split. On TikTok especially, critics called her documentary “creative narcissism,” USA Today reported. They also pounced on Lopez’s “perceived callousness” and accused her of inauthenticity in her documentary and failed attempt at relatability.
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Source:: The Mercury News – Entertainment
