J-LO & BEN IN ‘DIVORCE’ CRISIS
After weeks of growing concerns that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s relationship was in serious trouble, fans have begun to suspect that they’ve gone their separate ways for a second time.
Divorce rumours went into overdrive last week when the 54-year-old singer liked an Instagram post about broken relationships posted by a life coach who’d written, “You cannot build a healthy relationship with someone who lacks integrity and emotional safety”.
It followed a Hollywood insider revealing, “The writing is on the wall, it’s over” – after Ben had reportedly moved out of their £47 million mansion.
One fan responded to the drama, posting, “Too much baggage, too much money, too much desperation to maintain relevance and careers, too much scrutiny. How could it possibly have worked?”
And now sources tell Closer that Ben, 51, found it increasingly hard to live out his marriage to the megastar in the spotlight. “J-Lo has built them into this super-brand, with Ben’s permission, but he’s had major regrets over agreeing to put their relationship in the spotlight,” a source tells us. “It got way too intense for him, and he feels the only way to save things now is to take stock.”
Ben was noticeably absent from his wife’s side when she cochaired the Met Gala. He instead decided to stay on the west coast to shoot his sequel film, The Accountant 2. And insiders now have also said that their search for a new house in New York was called off and J-Lo is thought to have been house-hunting alone.
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