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Speaker 1: we need to talk about Benefer. We recorded this episode
Speaker 1: knowing it was only a matter of time before they
Speaker 1: announced their divorce. It was one week, yes, one week
Speaker 1: for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. Entering the canceled courtroom
Speaker 1: together is just another collab to add to their long
Speaker 1: list of projects. Before Benefit even existed, they starred in
Speaker 1: a terrible movie called Giggly Yiggly Jilly Jilly. Skip forward
Speaker 1: twenty years and they've rekindled their love, married and made
Speaker 1: a few more films like This Is Me Now and
Speaker 1: The Love Story Never Told. This is a moment from
Speaker 1: our big episode on Benefit, the couple that simply created
Speaker 1: too much content. This is Me Now. I don't know
Speaker 1: how to tell you what this is about. I watched
Speaker 1: it this morning. I had it on in the background.
Speaker 1: I had it on. Luna was just crawling around and
Speaker 1: I was trying to watch It is the first film
Speaker 1: she's ever been exposed to and she stopped and said,
Speaker 1: what is this? What the fuck is this? Make it end?
Speaker 1: I was like, honey, I don't know. It's a visual album,
Speaker 1: but it has like a script source a musical, and
Speaker 1: there's a wedding and too many famous people are in it.
Speaker 1: And there is a line that she wrote because she
Speaker 1: wrote the script that says she's smart, she's beautiful. Why
Speaker 1: does she always need to be with someone? Which I
Speaker 1: respect Jen? Jen. I watched it, and in terms of
Speaker 1: the celebrity cameos, I was like, this so interesting because
Speaker 1: it's an insight into who can't say no exactly because
Speaker 1: everyone was asked. Everyone Lizzo said no, I can't do that.
Speaker 1: If I was a Hollywood person, would I have been
Speaker 1: in it? Absolutely? Absolutely? You never Noah, was there the
Speaker 1: idea of hurting Jen's feelings when she seems like a
Speaker 1: sweet person. Okay, So there's This is Me Now and
Speaker 1: then and there's also The Greatest Love Story Never Told,
Speaker 1: which is a documentary about This is Me Now. So
Speaker 1: in the Greatest Love Story Never Told, we learn that
Speaker 1: she did ask a lot of celebrities and she got
Speaker 1: really upset when they said no. And then they were
Speaker 1: like oh, so and so says that they're at a wedding,
Speaker 1: and she's like call them, like she's just forcing them
Speaker 1: to be in her movie. And then she's like, it's
Speaker 1: because they don't like the script, and then she gets
Speaker 1: very sad. Well. In one scene, the casting director says
Speaker 1: to her, we sent out all the offers last night
Speaker 1: to everybody. We're waiting to hear back from a few people.
Speaker 1: And then a voice off camera says, Taylor Swift is
Speaker 1: a no, Jason Momoa is not available, Jennifer Coolidge not available,
Speaker 1: Lizo not available. Then someone asks j Loo if she
Speaker 1: wants Vanessa Hudgens by the way, and she responds for
Speaker 1: what fabe for? Another person says she's not available. At
Speaker 1: another point, Jennifer says it'd be good to get Bad
Speaker 1: Bunny to do a little cameo as the bad kid,
Speaker 1: and she's then told Ariana Grande is unavailable. She's in
Speaker 1: London until September, and when they're talking about her famous
Speaker 1: friends being busy, she says, I don't want to force
Speaker 1: anybody to do this. Who doesn't go this is going
Speaker 1: to be fun. Nobody wants to say no to me.
Speaker 1: I get that, But when an actor doesn't like a
Speaker 1: script or doesn't think it's good enough, or is worried
Speaker 1: about it. That's what they'll say. I know that I've
Speaker 1: done it, so don't push them. Don't push it a
Speaker 1: mate when they say no to a script, don't want
Speaker 1: to be in your film. Well, the other thing she
Speaker 1: says because apparently Chloe Kardashian was supposed to make a
Speaker 1: cameo and it didn't happen. And she says people are
Speaker 1: scared to put themselves out there. I get it took
Speaker 1: me a long time. I'm scared. I don't think that's it.
Speaker 1: Then I talk about Taylor Swift. She's put herself out
Speaker 1: there plenty. Taylor Swift scared of the power of the
Speaker 1: platform jaylo I would offer her. Honestly, It's gives me
Speaker 1: a lot of respect, like knowing that somebody like Lizzo
Speaker 1: got a call and then said, let me know what
Speaker 1: I respect is that a call was made to listen. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I respect. Because just for some context, she
Speaker 1: writes this album This is Me Now, and it was
Speaker 1: about because this is Me Then was written when she
Speaker 1: was first with Ben and she only writes albums when
Speaker 1: she's with ben she didn't write an album in like
Speaker 1: twenty years. Anyway, she writes, this is me Now. She's like, okay, yep,
Speaker 1: I want to tell this story. I'm going to make
Speaker 1: it like this movie visual album. And some distributor is like, yeah, yeah, cool,
Speaker 1: we'll give you some money. And then they pull it
Speaker 1: and they're like actually I think they saw the script,
Speaker 1: but they were like, this doesn't make us any money,
Speaker 1: like Beyonce sing didn't make us money. This isn't a
Speaker 1: good business. Move fast. And then she realizes that she's
Speaker 1: got a fund it. But that's not the answer. I
Speaker 1: would just pull. I would just pull. Sometimes we're told
Speaker 1: no because the answer is no. So it's a three
Speaker 1: part multimedia project. What is that twenty million dollars of
Speaker 1: her own money? And the description says it examines and
Speaker 1: plays with her life as a serial romantic. And she
Speaker 1: says it's a twenty year project. But we can't say
Speaker 1: it's twenty year project just because we don't do anything
Speaker 1: else the twenty years. Yeah, well we relatable. Neil de
Speaker 1: grass Tyson is a literal astrophysicist. He writes books about
Speaker 1: traveling to space. He has a species of frog named
Speaker 1: after him. Why is he in j Loo's movie? Could
Speaker 1: have done so much science. We are so diecal Council,
Speaker 1: but the stars hold all the power. When she did
Speaker 1: the greatest love story never told, except all she does
Speaker 1: is tell it. She wanted to tell the story in
Speaker 1: all mediums immediately available to her. Yes. Right. At one point,
Speaker 1: she brings this book in that Ben gifted her, which
Speaker 1: has all their emails from two thousand and two, and
Speaker 1: they interview someone who's like, we were allowed to touch
Speaker 1: the letters. I don't believe it, And it's like, is
Speaker 1: Jlo making this film too? And did she make you
Speaker 1: say that? And these people think they are touching a
Speaker 1: diary of great hist roles signific Winston Churchhill and not
Speaker 1: a printed out email from Ben. You've been showing all
Speaker 1: the musicians all these letters that are and they were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we call you pen a flag. And she exclaims, I
Speaker 1: don't expect anyone to get this, like why are you
Speaker 1: making it? Because she wants people to believe in love.
Speaker 1: She says, don't you see my favorite scene? She has
Speaker 1: to leave the set and everyone's chasing her asking questions
Speaker 1: because she's the boss, and she's just like, it's very
Speaker 1: Jenny from the Black Life. Oh, I'm so overwhelmed, and
Speaker 1: she's getting in a car that's like actually a track
Speaker 1: it's and it's very like, oh my gosh, this project
Speaker 1: is huge, and it's like you solely are responsible to this.
Speaker 1: You can pull the plug at any point, any you
Speaker 1: can go. This is too much. She's like, I have
Speaker 1: to go, and I'm like, where Jen. This is your project,
Speaker 1: your only project, except for the documentary you're making about
Speaker 1: this project. But someone is filming that documentary now because
Speaker 1: I'm watching the greatest love story Never told. Okay, then
Speaker 1: there's another documentary I found called Ben and Jen Never
Speaker 1: Say Never, Ah, which is confusing because Justin Bieber's documentary
Speaker 1: is called Never Say Never. The timeline reads like a
Speaker 1: soap opera, two decades filled with hot romance, heartbreak, multiple marriages,
Speaker 1: broken engagements, and five children between them. The love story
Speaker 1: of pop icon Jennifer Lopez and movie star Ben Affleck
Speaker 1: began with a movie set meeting in two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: which waved its way to the altar twenty years later,
Speaker 1: Share the Secrets of Pink Diamonds, of Racy Yacht Video,
Speaker 1: and Bubble Bath Proposal. So this is the third, Like,
Speaker 1: these two people have been together for like a combined
Speaker 1: eleven months over two engagements, and I have to watch
Speaker 1: three movies about Amazon pri one album and one album,
Speaker 1: two albums. It's hard because with the Greatest Love Story
Speaker 1: I Never Told, there aren't any stakes because it's just
Speaker 1: Jen's money and she's making a documentary. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: whether you lose it all or you don't, you're still
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez and you're with Ben Affleck, so I'm not
Speaker 1: not rooting for you. I just don't think you've got
Speaker 1: much to lose, yeah, she says. At one point in
Speaker 1: the documentary about the movie, she says, I have good intentions.
Speaker 1: I just don't want it to suck. And that's all
Speaker 1: of us with creative pursuit. So well, but it does.
Speaker 1: And then Ben says, that's just inexperience. You haven't done
Speaker 1: this before, because he has made films and he's liked
Speaker 1: his distiness, and oh nah, he was like, Nah, it's great, babe,
Speaker 1: it's really good. Divorce rumors. A few months after The
Speaker 1: Greatest Love Story Never Told and This Is Me Now
Speaker 1: was released, rumors emerged that Ben and Jen were separating,
Speaker 1: which sucks. In terms of timing, I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you a bit of a timeline about what has happened
Speaker 1: in the last honestly, like four or five months. It's
Speaker 1: May sixth, twenty twenty four. Jalo is at the met Gala.
Speaker 1: No Ben insight to that. I say Ben had hate
Speaker 1: the Metgala? Is it that unusual that he is not there?
Speaker 1: May twelve, her and Ben do not spend Mother's Day together.
Speaker 1: May fourteen, j Loo is house hunting without benh May fifteen,
Speaker 1: there are reports that Ben has moved out. May sixty.
Speaker 1: Ben pictured leaving his new residence where he's living alone.
Speaker 1: But he's wearing his wedding ring. Okay. Jlo then likes
Speaker 1: a post on Instagram Claire, I would like you to
Speaker 1: just give listeners a gist of the post that Jennifer
Speaker 1: Lopez liked on May the sixteenth from her account. Ah,
Speaker 1: you cannot build a healthy relationship with someone who lacks
Speaker 1: integrity and emotional safety, doesn't respect your time, doesn't think
Speaker 1: it's important to call, slash text back in a respectable
Speaker 1: time I'm texting her, lacks effective communication skills. He's talking
Speaker 1: to his friends, doesn't strippers who they are or what
Speaker 1: they want Devil's advocate. Maybe she's talk about one of
Speaker 1: our other husbands. No, she could be talking no current husband.
Speaker 1: Well it's funny you say that, though, because I think.
Speaker 1: A few days later, they're photographed together at a school
Speaker 1: play of one of the children wearing their wedding rings.
Speaker 1: We go. Things get weirder. Two days after that, they're
Speaker 1: spotted in a car together and then Ben's phone starts
Speaker 1: ringing and he's green is visible to the paps. Have
Speaker 1: you heard this? I've seen the picture and it reads
Speaker 1: Jennifer Afflick. But she's right there to Gleitch in the matrix.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Oh, that is weird. That is weird. No,
Speaker 1: I saw memes about it, but I didn't see the original.
Speaker 1: It's j Jenna's right there. The rumors ramp up, with
Speaker 1: sources telling people Ben hates all attention and it makes
Speaker 1: him very uncomfortable. Jennifer has always had a different approach.
Speaker 1: I don't appreciate the blaming Jennifer. No, not one beer.
Speaker 1: He knew who she was. She has never changed. This
Speaker 1: is me, then, this is me now have always been
Speaker 1: later like she's clear. A journalist then asks jenn outright
Speaker 1: if they're separated. Love that journalist, me too, take him
Speaker 1: on for the team doing godswik j Loo says, you
Speaker 1: know better than that. Then they're holding hands. She's hot broke.
Speaker 1: Then Lopez announced that she would not be doing her
Speaker 1: summer tour as planned. Pictures of Business Me now tour,
Speaker 1: She's not doing it just that's like a huge part
Speaker 1: of promoting her three part twenty millions of fundage project. Well,
Speaker 1: she's not doing it because she has to spend time
Speaker 1: with her family on and she's sorry by the time
Speaker 1: she tours that it's not even going to be her
Speaker 1: now anymore. It's gonna be her band again. Then they
Speaker 1: put their sixty million dollar house on the market. In June,
Speaker 1: Ben is on Kevin Hart's podcast and basically says he
Speaker 1: hates all the attention. I'm also a little bit shy.
Speaker 1: I also like a lot of attention is why people
Speaker 1: see me and they're like, let's do it always mad
Speaker 1: because somebody has their cameras, thin get in my face
Speaker 1: and you have rest feast. Do you know what I have?
Speaker 1: Resting hard fist. Now, he says, paparazzi can take pictures
Speaker 1: of him. He doesn't give a fuck if they're taking
Speaker 1: pictures of Jen but not his kids. Then he takes
Speaker 1: his wedding ring off and then the next day is back.
Speaker 1: On July twenty, Lopez has a Bridgeton themed birthday party.
Speaker 1: I having brackets fun. Ben doesn't come. That would slap.
Speaker 1: The only thing I will say about the Bridgeton themed
Speaker 1: birthday party? Was it girls only? Ah? It feels like
Speaker 1: a gal's event. Well, Ben wasn't there. I don't think
Speaker 1: he'd like dressing up. But July twenty seven, Ben Affleck
Speaker 1: goes rogue and purchases a five bedroom home in LA
Speaker 1: for cheeky twenty mil. My question is, why do you
Speaker 1: need a home if you already have a home with
Speaker 1: j Low. To listen to that entire episode, just click
Speaker 1: the link in our show notes. In that episode, we're
Speaker 1: investigating the time that Ben had a simple thirst for
Speaker 1: water and ended up in a strip club. Quenching said thirst.
Speaker 1: Is that a crime? Absolutely not? Did he take the
Speaker 1: wrong turn? Did he mean to land in that stripper's lap?
Speaker 1: Only we know for sure. Also, you may have seen
Speaker 1: the sad Ben phenomenon, But can we punish him simply
Speaker 1: because he doesn't smile a lot? In public. Yes, we
Speaker 1: conducted a full risk assessment on their relationship. Listen to
Speaker 1: that full episode via the link in our show notes.
Speaker 1: We're recanceling three things every week over the summer break,
Speaker 1: including celebrities, TV shows, celebrity couples, and press tours because
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