Ben Affleck had a serious ask of Jennifer Lopez earlier than getting again along with the famous person — protecting their relationship off social media … a requirement he did not win.
The actor shared his privateness demand in his spouse’s new Amazon Prime documentary — “The Greatest Love Story Never Told” … which places their entire relationship below a microscope — which is why his confession is ironic. Ben initially needed J Lo to maintain their rekindled romance below wraps.
He explains, “Getting back together, I said, ‘Listen, one of the things I don’t want is a relationship on social media.'” Nonetheless, he then realized he wasn’t being honest — noting Jen closely makes use of social media and has tons of of hundreds of thousands followers.
As soon as he thought of this, Ben says he caved — including … “It’s sort of like, you’re gonna marry a boat captain and you go, ‘Well, I don’t like the water.'” BA completed by saying … “We’re just two people with different kinds of approaches trying to learn to compromise.”
After all … Bennifer first received collectively in 2002 — however referred to as issues off for good by 2004 … or, so we thought on the time. They received again collectively virtually 20 years later and began once more.
TMZ broke the story … the previous flames rekindled their love story in 2021 — getting married that subsequent yr in a lavish ceremony in Georgia. Since then, they have been inseparable.
Whereas Ben says he is relented on the no-social-media stance — it seems Jenny has at the least considerably revered his unique needs … as he solely pops up sometimes on her social media accounts.
In actual fact … Jennifer confirmed in her doc that her husband is not actually a fan of the highlight — however referred to as him her muse for her ninth studio album, “This Is Me…Now.” So, he was entrance and middle for this undertaking — whether or not he favored it or not, and he appears to be cool with it.
Ben might’ve been a reluctant participant … however he definitely assisted in bringing to life the ultimate product — because it was his concept to seize each single behind-the-scenes second.
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He won’t like all the eye … however everybody certain loves him, FWIW.