When Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez rekindled their romance in 2021, he was newly sober and sold her on being “a changed man,” while she was still the attention-seeking pop diva who didn’t necessarily object to cameras following her around, even during their Italian honeymoon. This is the formula that contributed to stark marital differences, which emerged as soon as their honeymoon, . Now that Lopez, 55, has filed the paperwork for her long-anticipated divorce from Affleck, 52, people who’ve been around the couple are coming forward to talk about when and how things went wrong.
According to Page Six, things went wrong pretty quickly, just after Affleck and Lopez’s lavish Aug. 20, 2022, wedding ceremony at his Georgia estate. The newlyweds headed to picturesque and romantic Lake Como in the foothills of the Alps — where George Clooney has his lakeside villa.
But Affleck and Lopez weren’t alone. No doubt, they were accompanied by the film and music star’s entourage, but soon the paparazzi also turned up. Photographers followed them as they went out to dinner or strolled by the lake, and the couple always made a show for the cameras of being very affectionate with each other.
But the PDA really was for show, the source told Page Six. 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,” the source said. For his part, Affleck “was unhappy with paparazzi following .