Jennifer Lopez Admits She Had ‘PTSD’ Before Wedding After She and Ben Affleck ‘Fell Apart’ in 2004

19.01.2023 - 17:31 / usmagazine.com

Six months after saying “I do” in Sin City, Jennifer Lopez is sharing new details of her and Ben Affleck’s Las Vegas nuptials.

“We were planning to get married in August in Savannah, the family was going to be there, everyone’s going to be there, and it was so stressful. A month before, and I don’t know if you guys know this, but 20 years ago we were supposed to get married,” Lopez, 53, began on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, January 18.

After Jimmy Kimmel said with a laugh, “I heard that,” she continued: “And it kind of all fell apart back then and this time, I absolutely had a little PTSD and I was like, ‘Is this happening?’”

The Shotgun Wedding star and Affleck, 50, were engaged in the early 2000s, calling off their wedding ahead of their 2004 split due to “excessive media attention.” The twosome got back together in 2021.

“We were so happy, but I just felt the wedding was so stressful,” Lopez continued on Wednesday. “And one day Ben just said, ‘F—k it, let’s just go to Vegas and get married tonight.’ … He was like, ‘Go to rehearsal [for your show], when you get back here I’m going to have everything all set up.’”

Us Weekly confirmed last year that Lopez and Affleck wed at The Little White Wedding Chapel just before midnight on July 16, 2022.

“It was very funny because you have to go and get the license first and the whole thing. We were standing at, not the DMV, but whatever the county clerk’s office and we are just standing there and Ben’s standing there and there is this couple in front of us with a baby, a gay couple behind us. We were just, like, in line with them from 10 to midnight,” she continued. “We went at the last, last minute. Everybody was kind of chill. Nobody was freaking out or anything, but they were