When Ben Affleck rekindled his relationship with Jennifer Lopez, he had a request.
The actor said in the Amazon Prime documentary "The Greatest Love Story Never Told" that he initially didn't want to share the couple's love life online.
"Once we got back together, I said, 'Listen, the one thing I don't want is a relationship on social media,'" Affleck recalled, adding that he later realized Lopez was "asking for something like that." It's unfair, Lopez has 253 million Instagram followers.
"It's kind of like, you're marrying a captain and you say, 'Well, I don't like the water,'" he continued. "We're just two people trying to learn to compromise in different ways."
Affleck doesn't like the spotlight
Affleck and Lopez began dating in 2002 after meeting on the set of "Geely." The two originally planned to marry in 2003, but canceled the ceremony and split in early 2004. After 17 years, the two rekindled their old relationship and bonded. Ending in 2022.
In the documentary, which explores the making of Lopez's new album This Is Me...Now and its accompanying film This Is Me...Now: A Love Story , Lopez also discusses her husband's interest in the spotlight of disgust.
"I don't think [Ben] felt comfortable with me doing all this," she shared. "He'll do whatever it takes to support me because he knows you can't stop me from making the music that I make... He doesn't want to stop me. But that doesn't mean he's happy to be the muse."
Lopez also admitted during a screening of the Amazon Prime version that Affleck was an "unwilling participant" in the documentary. However, after warming up to the project, he later became involved in the creative process.
"It wasn't my idea to capture every moment of this," she revealed, "My husband was actually at the forefront of the whole thing and said, 'We should capture this,' and he brought this A great team, that’s how it happened.”
