Earlier this week, we reported that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have allegedly rekindled their romance seventeen years after breaking off their engagement in front of the entire world. Now, new details about their newly-rekindled romance are coming to light.
A source close to Affleck told Page Six that when Lopez chose to sing the Neil Diamond classic “Sweet Caroline” at the Global Citizen concert on May 2, it was meant to be both a dig at her ex Alex Rodriguez and a flirty wink to Affleck.
“It was absolutely for Ben! And it also worked to piss off A-Rod,” the Affleck source said.
The insider went on to say that Affleck’s friends were shocked when the former couple jetted off to Montana last weekend for a romantic getaway.
“We thought they were just friends,” the Affleck source said. “Even people close to Ben were taken by surprise.”
However, another source that knows both Affleck and Lopez said, “She was always obsessed with Ben. They have always loved each other.”
Affleck and Lopez began dating in 2002, and by the time they became engaged a year later, their relationship was being covered by the tabloids nonstop. It came as a shock when they split in January of 2004.
Sources told TMZ that it was Affleck who reinitiated contact with Lopez in February of this year, when he penned an email to her about “how beautiful she looked” in photos of her filming the upcoming movie Shotgun Wedding. Affleck sent the email after photos leaked to the press showing Lopez filming wedding scenes for the film in the Dominican Republican.
Affleck also reportedly said in the email that he wishes he could have been in the Dominican Republic too, but was filming The Tender Bar in Boston with George Clooney. The two reportedly stayed in contact via email until Lopez returned home to the states at the end of April after filming was completed.
“They have a lot of love for each other. They have always admired each other,” a source recently said.
This comes just one month after Lopez called off her engagement from Rodriguez, a legend in the baseball world.
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