Ben Affleck was given savage nickname by Jennifer Lopez’s crew after they read his personal letters
Ben Affleck once revealed the nickname he was given by Jennifer Lopez's team after she showed them his love letters.
On Wednesday, it was confirmed that J.Lo, 55, had filed for divorce from Affleck following months of speculation over their marriage.
Back in July, a source told the Daily Mail that Lopez and Affleck - who'd previously dated back in the early Noughties - had 'finalised the divorce papers' but were 'waiting for the right time to drop them'.
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"At that time, they will release a joint statement that will say how they have much love for each other and how they fought to make it work, but couldn’t," they said.
As per court documents obtained on Wednesday (21 August) by the BBC, J.Lo filed for divorce on 20 August in the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Neither Lopez or Affleck have publicly commented on their split.
It's fair to say fans are pretty gutted over the divorce, with many sad that the pair didn't work out.
Earlier this year, a documentary on Amazon Prime Video delved into Lopez's personal life, providing glimpses of her relationship with Affleck.
In the doc, the Good Will Hunting star, 52, revealed the nickname he was given by Lopez's crew after she showed them his love letters.
It revolved around the chart-topper's semi-autobiographical movie This Is Me... Now: A Love Story which links to her new album from This Is Me... Now - both of which were released this year.
The 2024 album is also somewhat of a sequel to This Is Me...Then which hit the charts in 2002.
"Twenty years, I ago I fell in love with the love of my life and during that time I was making an album called This Is Me...Then," Lopez told a crowd in the documentary. "I hadn’t made an album since then. Eighteen years later, we got back together and I was very inspired."
The inspiration in question came from J. Lo's 'bible' - a book Affleck gave her on their first Christmas together.
She went on to explain: "It is every letter and every email that we wrote to each other from 20 years ago to today."
The pop icon also shared that he had titled the book 'The Greatest Love Story Never Told by Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck 2001 to 2021... and Counting'.
Lopez then let her collaborators have a look through the 'bible' for song inspiration.
Clearly surprised that his wife had shared the book with everyone in the studio, the Hollywood A-lister was even more shocked after discovering they all gave him a nickname, too.
"I was like, 'You’ve been showing all the musicians all these letters?'" Affleck says in the doc. "And they were like, 'Yeah, we call you Pen Affleck.’ And I was like, 'Oh my God'."
Jennifer Lopez's The Greatest Love Story Never Told is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime.
Topics: Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Sex and Relationships
Lucy Devine