Jennifer Lopez finally feels “free” nearly two years after her split from Ben Affleck.
In a preview of her upcoming “Nightline” interview, the singer talked about how she’s doing after divorcing the actor in August 2024.
“I’m in a happy era,” Lopez, 56, exclaimed in a teaser clip that aired on “Good Morning America” Wednesday. “I think for the first time in my life I felt like I was free and alone. And it feels really good.”
Lopez added that as she was in her early 20s, she “didn’t really know” what that felt like.
“And even before that. I always had boyfriends,” she recalled. “There was always someone in my life, and there were a lot of things that I felt were out of my control.”
The pop star told “Nightline” host Juju Chan that she’s also learned to stop putting pressure on herself all the time.
“Instead of being so hard on myself and always trying to prove myself, I started to really trust myself and value myself a little bit more,” Lopez admitted, recalling that she had to “quit everything” and “take a year off from work” in order to properly heal the wounds of her divorce.
“I canceled the tour and decided to stay at home and not run away from work or other people or anything and just sit with what happened. I just sat.”
The separation between Lopez and Affleck, 53, marks her fourth divorce in nearly 27 years.
She previously said she felt like her “whole world exploded” after her marriage to the “Accountant” star ended.
But that scary feeling ultimately helped the “Jenny From the Block” singer “understand[herself].”
“I needed to be home with my kids and that was my top priority at the time,” she said. “It got to the point where I was like, ‘What the hell is going on?'” Because I couldn’t blame anyone else, and I don’t think there’s a lesson there. So I really wanted to understand myself. ”
Elsewhere in the interview, Lopez addressed the current state of her dating life.
“No, I’m not (meeting anyone)!” When Chan asked if she was “caught up in a storm” now that she was single, she replied: “God, I definitely don’t want to ruin anything!”
She continued, “It’s so good right now. I’m so happy. It’s the best. I feel so good right now. And that was scary for me when I was younger. Like, I didn’t know if I could do it. I was always afraid to do it.”
However, Lopez made it clear that she is still “surrounded by love.”
“I’m the mother of this year’s graduates who are going to college,” she said of her and ex-husband Marc Anthony’s 18-year-old twins, Max and Emme. “I’m a showgirl, I’m an entertainer, I’m an actor. I’m an entrepreneur. And I’m happy. I’m happy. And I’m healthy. And I’m grateful.”
How Lopez has kept busy in the two years since her split from Affleck has focused on her Up All-Night Residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Although her residency is set to end on March 28, the “Atlas” actress still has a few surprises in store for her countless fans.
“I wanted to have an orchestra on stage for this show, which I had never done before,” she told Chan. “Every song was reimagined that way.”
Lopez concluded, “This is a celebration. We must live and cherish every moment.”
Affleck’s relationship with the “Get Right” singer began in 2002 when they met on the set of “Gigli.”
After getting engaged but breaking off their engagement in 2004, the two reunited in 2021 and married in July 2022.
But two years later, on the second anniversary of their big wedding reception in August 2022, Lopez filed for divorce from the “Air” star, setting their separation date to April 26 of the same year.
The pair broke up in January 2025, but later reunited in October 2025 for the premiere of Kiss of the Spider-Woman in New York City.
In addition to Affleck from 2022 to 2025 and Anthony from 2004 to 2014, Lopez was previously married to actor Ojani Noa from 1997 to 1998 and actor Chris Judd from 2001 to 2003.
While in Las Vegas on March 6, Lopez joked about her four failed marriages, saying, “After the third divorce, I really started getting better.”
