Article content Ben Affleck is speaking out for the first time about the end of his marriage to Jennifer Lopez . In a new interview with GQ magazine published this week, Affleck, 52, pulled back the curtain on their relationship saying he has “nothing but respect” for Lopez and revealing that there was no single event or big blowup that lead to their split. “There’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue,” he told the publication.
“The truth is, when you talk to somebody, ‘Hey, what happened?’ Well, there is no: ‘This is what happened.’ It’s just a story about people trying to figure out their lives and relationships in ways that we all sort of normally do. And as you get older, this is true for me, I assume it’s true for most people, there is no ‘So-and-so did this’ or ‘This was the big event.
'” Affleck, who is fiercely private about his personal life, admitted that there is “a tendency to look at breakups and want to identify root causes or something,” but said the reasons their marriage soured “is much more quotidian than probably people would believe or would be interesting.” The Good Will Hunting star added that speaking about their ordinary breakup in great detail “ feels vulnerable.” “It’s really, it sounds more like a couple’s therapy session, which — you would tune out of someone else’s couple’s therapy after a while.
For one thing, you start going, ‘Okay, clearly this person has got these issues. Clearly they.