Jennifer Lopez drops cryptic clues about Ben Affleck divorce in new song lyrics

Daily Mail​

3 days ago

Jennifer Lopez debuted six new songs at an exclusive listening party for 30 lucky fans in Los Angeles this week - and dropped a hint about her recent personal turmoil.
The 55-year-old filed for divorce from her fourth husband Ben Affleck last August on what would have been their second wedding anniversary.
The collapse of their marriage was the culmination of months of rumors that the couple's relationship was skidding towards implosion.
Only that February, JLo had put out and album and a movie musical called This Is Me... Now as a paean to Ben - a follow-up to her 2002 LP This Is Me... Then, written during and about their first romance, which also ultimately went up in smoke.
Now she appears to have returned to the subject of Ben in her music, in the lyrics to a song called Wreckage of You that she played at the listening party.
One of the guests, Edgardo Luis Rivera, shared that JLo 'kept thinking of the word "wreck" because it means destruction, but she wasn't destroyed. In fact, the lyrics of the song are: "I'm stronger after the wreckage of you,"' via Us Weekly.
'Wreckage of You is a pop ballad that she told us she cowrote and recorded two weeks ago. She said she was lying in bed after a long day of tour rehearsals when the idea of the song came to her,' Edgardo spilled.
'She mentioned how last year was a very difficult time for her both personally and professionally. She had to cancel her tour and really focus on herself,' he noted.
JLo scrapped her This Is Me... Live tour last summer, saying she 'needed to be with my kids and myself and really dig down deep into things that were happening in my life' - amid the rumors her marriage to Ben was on the rocks.
'Fast-forward to one year later,' said Edgardo, talking about the listening party: 'and she feels better and stronger than ever, so she wanted to write a song about coming out of a bad situation much stronger.'
Another attendee described the musical number as a 'very emotional, empowering song about walking away from a relationship and coming out a stronger person.'
The other five songs she played at the party were all reportedly more peppy, and were called Birthday, Free, Up All Night, Save Me Tonight and Regular.
Edgardo explained that those songs were 'fun, more Jennifer of old in terms of music style,' calling them 'really good songs' with a 'real vibe to them' and dishing that the assembled fans went 'nuts' while listening to Birthday.
While Jennifer was promoting This Is Me... Now, she intimated that the album about Ben might be the final one she ever released.
However last October, after she filed for divorce, an insider revealed JLo hoped to put together a new album with a successful dance single.
'She has had an enormous amount of hits and can't accept the last album is the end of her music career. She wants to wash away the stink of This is Me Now,' the source explained to Page Six, months after This Is Me... Now had turned out to be a flop.
Another one of JLo's exes was in the spotlight this week, as a verdict was finally reached in the case of her former boyfriend Sean ' Diddy ' Combs.
A New York jury reached a split verdict Wednesday in which Diddy — who has proclaimed his innocence — was acquitted of the most serious charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking
However, the jury found him guilty on the less-serious charges, two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, and the judge overseeing the case has ordered that he be kept behind bars until his sentencing hearing in October.
Jennifer has notably refrained from commenting on her former boyfriend's trial or the allegations made against him by numerous women who have accused him of sexual assault, which he has uniformly denied.
Her doomed romance with the rapper made huge headlines at the time.
The two began dating back in 1999 after they met on the set of her music video for If You Had My Love, and he went on to coproduce her album On The 6.
In December of that year, J.Lo was with Diddy when he and his entourage were involved in an argument at a club in Manhattan that escalated to gunshots that injured three people.
Jennifer, Diddy and his bodyguard fled the club before police intercepted them and found a stolen gun in the car, and one of the victims from the club shooting claimed that it was Diddy who shot her.
Both he and his then-girlfriend were arrested in the aftermath, but Jennifer was soon released and she was never charged.
Diddy wasn't as lucky, though he was eventually acquitted of gun possession charges.
However, a rapper in his entourage was convicted of gun possession and assault.
Ultimately, no one was ever charged for the actual shootings.
The trial put a stain on Diddy and Jennifer's relationship, and they eventually broke up in 2001, though they were reported to have subsequently developed a friendship.
Jennifer later accused Diddy of having cheated on her during the relationship, though she admitted that it was only a suspicion, as she never caught him in the act or found incontrovertible proof.
A year after their 2001 split, Lopez reflected on the romance in a Primetime: Special Edition interview with Diane Sawyer who asked her if she was 'afraid' during the relationship.
'Um, no, I don't think she was afraid, I just think that I, at that time was, uh, cared very deeply for Sean, and you know we just... didn't have the same kind of ideals about life and family and stuff like that,' she said. 'It just wasn't a good relationship for me. It didn't have so much to do with him as it had to do with me at the time.
'I had to learn to care about myself a little bit more and put up certain boundaries of what I would accept and wouldn't accept because really he was just being himself.
'He wasn't doing anything wrong, and he felt like he loved me very much and I know he did and I felt like the same way. So if I was unhappy in some way, then I was the one who had to do something. Not him. He was doing everything he wanted to do.'
Meanwhile, Jennifer has been focusing on rehearsals as of late even as she and matters closer to home.
Lopez and Ben, 52, apparently given up for the time being on their mission to sell their massive Beverly Hills mansion a year after putting it on the market, according to People magazine.
They bought the home for a staggering $60.8 million in cash in May 2023, nearly a year into their marriage, but after breaking up the following year, they put the house on the market for $68 million in July.
The exes don't seem to have gotten many bites on the property, as they eventually lowered the asking price to $8 million, for a slight loss.
But real estate records reportedly now show that the mansion has been taken off the market completely.
The home's Zillow listing indicates that it has been 'recently renovated with the highest level of quality.
The opulent mansion includes several features that might appeal to fitness buffs, including a well-equipped gym, a box ring, sports lounge and basketball and pickleball courts.
It also features an enormous 12-car garage, a penthouse for guests, a separate caretaker's house and a two-bedroom guardhouse to ensure safety and privacy.
In June, an insider detailed the humiliating extent to which Ben was willing to go in order to sever his ties to Jennifer.
'Ben and J.Lo slashed the price on their Beverly Hills mansion for $8 million less than they paid for it, but this is nothing to Ben.'
'He really just wants this to be sold so that he can cut the final cord that keeps him and Jennifer intertwined,' they added.
The source also said that Ben had never wanted to 'shell out that much for this home to begin with.'
Even as the sale of their mansion has hit a speed bump, Jennifer has reportedly been working on renovations to her new $17.5 million Hidden Hills mansion.