Now that Jennifer Lopez has taken the initiative to pull the plug on her two year marriage to Ben Affleck, word on the street is that the cracks started appearing in the dam the night of their honeymoon.
via: Page Six
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s relationship issues began on their honeymoon in Lake Como, Italy, a source familiar with the situation tells Page Six.
The couple’s honeymoon included numerous public outings packed with PDA and shopping — and, yes, there were of course cameras capturing it all.
“He was unhappy with paparazzi following them. She is an international superstar, and he acted like it came as a surprise that they would be followed around,” the source said.
When they weren’t in front of the cameras, “They would barely speak to each other during what was supposed to be the happiest time of their life. He sold her on him being a changed man, and that lasted a very short time,” our source claimed.
Another insider told us Affleck finally came to his senses about their renewed puppy love, once his sobriety “started to settle in with normality.”
When they started seeing each other again, “He was just getting sober … He was in a vulnerable state, and whatever their chemistry played into that … He was in this frenzied, excitable state,” the insider said.
Affleck has been open about his struggles with alcohol in the past. He’d reportedly last returned to rehab in 2018.
The whirlwind romance soon wore off once he adjusted to his sober life. Affleck started craving more privacy, and he could no longer take Lopez’s level of celebrity, according to the insider. “He doesn’t want [the entourage] and all the drama that comes with that in his home,” the source said.
Meanwhile, sources previously told us he still considered J.Lo’s feelings as their relationship came to an end in the spring.
Sources described him as “very protective of her,” which fueled his decision to hold off on filing for divorce.
Unfortunately, there was no way of getting around humiliating her. “She’s furious. He has humiliated her. He was the one who initiated getting back together … She made a big deal that he was the love of her life,” a source previously said.
Lopez filed for divorce on Aug. 20, the second anniversary of their Georgia wedding.
Reps for the soon-to-be-divorced pair did not comment.
This has not been a good year for JLo. In addition to her marriage failing, her ninth studio album This Is Me...Now flopped on the charts. She had to cancel her North American tour due to weak sales, her $100 million Netflix movie Atlas, which scored a 19 percent on Rotten Tomatoes came under fire for using real-life footage of fighting in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol (where hundreds have died in the Russian invasion) in a scene depicting robots attacking people.
As for her JLo Beauty cosmetics line, sales are pretty weak (Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty line notches up more than five times her sales). So weak that Sephora will discontinue selling her products at the end of 2024.
There seems to be this disconnect between her as a celebrity and her relatability with average consumers, and quite frankly, as long as she continues to present a disingenuous sense of self, I don't think people will be buying her music, watching her films on a global scale, or purchasing her products in the future.
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