Jennifer Lopez was placed on the spot Wednesday evening.
The actress was in Mexico Metropolis to advertise her new Netflix film Atlas … when a reporter interrupted the proceedings to ask the star a private query.
A VERY private query, we should always emphasize.
“Is your divorce with Ben Affleck actual? These rumors?” an unidentified journalist really interjected amid a room stuffed with astonished press, including:
“What’s the fact? Para le press le Mexicana [for the Mexican press], what’s the fact of the state of affairs?”
At this, Lopez’s co-star, Simu Liu, jumped in to save lots of his colleague, telling the person:
“Okay we’re not doing that. Thanks a lot guys, we actually respect it. Thanks.”
Lopez did chime in herself, as properly, however she didn’t precisely shed any gentle on her private state of affairs.
“You realize higher than that,” she advised the reporter.
For these simply catching up… Affleck and Lopez had been engaged in 2004 however then cut up up earlier than strolling down the aisle.
They rekindled their romance years in 2021 and eloped in Las Vegas in July 2022 … previous to internet hosting a a star-studded wedding ceremony at Affleck’s compound exterior Savannah, Georgia.
All of it appeared like the final word fairytale romance.
Of late, nevertheless, the spouses have barely been noticed in public collectively — whereas Lopez has attended quite a few crimson carpet occasions on her personal.
#JenniferLopez es cuestionada por su divorico en su visita a México para el estreno de #Atlas y #SimuLiu la defiende con una gran respuesta. ????#JLo #AtlasEnMX pic.twitter.com/r2VX3XsXwi
— Glamour Mex y Latam (@GlamourMex) Might 23, 2024
Lopez ended the press convention on Wednesday by telling the press in Spanish, “Thanks. Nobody requested me something in Spanish however okay.”
She blew a kiss and smiled because the attendees laughed.
To his credit score, Liu beforehand stood up for J. Lo by telling these in entrance of him:
“Jen is a producer on this film and the rationale why I’m right here and why Sterling [K. Brown] was on this lovely film is as a result of Jen cares. And Jen cares about issues like illustration and variety, and she or he’s a boss.”
Neither Lopez nor Affleck has mentioned something in public concerning the state of their relationship.
However “not in the very best place in the intervening time,” a supply linked to Lopez advised Folks Journal earlier this week.
The celebrities are clearly having points, with In Contact Weekly popping out rather a lot hotter in its evaluation of the place issues stand… and the place they’re going.
“The writing is on the wall – it’s over,” a supply advised this tabloid on Might 15. “They’re headed for a divorce – and for as soon as, [Ben’s] to not blame!”
This similar insider mentioned on the time that Lopez has employed a well known divorce lawyer and {that a} submitting on her half is “imminent.”
