Ben Affleck opened up with a wholesome comment about his ex-wife Jennifer Lopez and their respective kids as he appeared on the red carpet for his new movie, The Accountant 2.

Affleck spoke about the relationship between himself, Lopez and each of their children from the Los Angeles premier of his new action-packed flick, in which he returns as Christian Wolff – aka The Accountant – alongside his on-screen brother, Jon Bernthal.

Affleck brought along with him his three children, Violet Anne, Fin, and Samuel, who he shares with his first wife, actor Jennifer Garner, but Lopez’s own children, twins Max and Emme, were also in attendance at the event.

Lopez shares her twins, who are 17 years old, with her ex-husband, Marc Anthony.

Affleck and Berthnal play brothers in The Accountant 2 (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Affleck expressed his delight at having all the children there to support him, telling Entertainment Tonight: “The kids are here, Jen’s kids are here. I’m very, very excited. I love when all the kids come out.”⁠

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⁠The Gone Girl actor went on to share his praise for Lopez, who he split from in August 2024 after they married two years earlier. ⁠

He said: “Listen, I don’t read the stuff online much, and sometimes I get the sense that people perpetuate this idea of … they wanna find something negative to talk about. For the record, Jennifer Lopez is spectacular, great to my kids, great ongoing relationship with them.

“I love her kids. They are wonderful,” he said. “She is enormously important, tremendous person of a lot of integrity who I adore and am grateful to.”

Affleck and JLo were married for two years (Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

“I’m thrilled that the kids are here with me,” Affleck continued. “That’s the kind of thing where the relationship that you have with children like that is a joy in my life. Those kids are amazing and I’m glad that this is a movie they want to come to.”⁠

⁠Affleck’s comments come after he previously spoke about his split with Lopez in an interview with GQ, in which he insisted there was ‘no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue’.

“It’s just a story about people trying to figure out their lives and relationships in ways that we all sort of normally do,” he said, adding: “For one thing, you start going, ‘Okay, clearly this person has got these issues. Clearly they have these issues’, and the reason I don’t want to share that, is just sort of embarrassing. It feels vulnerable.”

Ben Affleck has spoken about how grateful he is for his ex-wife Jennifer Garner as he broke his silence for the first time on his most recent split from Jennifer Lopez.

The Gone Girl star opened up about his relationships in a new interview with GQ, which comes as he prepares to star in the sequel to his 2016 movie, The Accountant.

Arriving two months after Affleck finalized his divorce with Lopez, the interview saw the actor open up about his recent split and stress that Lopez is ‘somebody [he has] a lot of respect for’.

Affleck and Lopez finalized their divorce in January 2025 (MEGA/GC Images)

“Yeah, there’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue,” he said of the divorce. “The truth is, when you talk to somebody, ‘Hey, what happened?’, well, there is no: ‘This is what happened’. It’s just a story about people trying to figure out their lives and relationships in ways that we all sort of normally do.”

He added: “For one thing, you start going, ‘Okay, clearly this person has got these issues. Clearly they have these issues’, and the reason I don’t want to share that, is just sort of embarrassing. It feels vulnerable.”

Amid the split with Lopez, Affleck has continued to co-parent the three children he shares with his former wife, Garner, who he was married to from 2005-2018.

Photos of the pair show them still spending time together, and Affleck acknowledged that while every detail of his day-to-day life might be of interest to his fans, the most important thing to him is that he and his family know the truth of the situation.

“Look, I know what’s going on in my life,” he told GQ. “And also, really more importantly, my kids know. We used to have a thing, my ex-wife and I, when they would see something (on a magazine) on a supermarket stand, we would say, well, ‘You know this isn’t always true because if it were, you would have 15 brothers or sisters or whatever the number of stories is where they said that your mom was pregnant.”

Affleck and Garner have continued to co-parent following their split (BG004/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

Affleck continued: “I’m really lucky that I have a really good co-parent and partner in Jennifer Garner, the kids’ mom, who’s wonderful and great and we work together well. It’s more of a headache than anything else and there certainly are worse things.”

In spite of the headlines surrounding Affleck’s life and relationships, the actor insisted that his life is ‘actually pretty drama-free’.

He continued: “I’m sure in your mind you’re thinking, Oh, well, you just got divorced. That’s not drama-free. And I understand that instinct, but all of this is pretty adult, and for all the sensational stuff that gets written, if somebody sat down and talked to me about it, and I said, ‘Well, this is really the experience,’ their eyes would glaze over with boredom.”

Jennifer Lopez has officially filed for divorce from Ben Affleck.

The Hustlers star filed legal documents on Tuesday (August 20) in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, which have been seen by numerous news outlets, such as the BBC.

According to TMZ, they were not filed by a lawyer but by pro per, which means Lopez did it herself without an attorney.

Moreover, Lopez listed their date of separation as April 26, 2024, as per Variety.

The couple were married for two years. (John Shearer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

The documents filed also reportedly don’t indicate whether or not there is a prenuptial agreement between the couple, the BBC reports.

This would mean that whatever earnings Affleck and Lopez made during their two years of marriage would be considered community property.

The documents also allegedly reveal that Lopez waived spousal support and is asking the judge to deny Affleck such support as well.

Affleck and Lopez were one of Hollywood’s biggest couples in the noughties, having met in 2002 on the set of 2003’s Gigli, in which they both starred.

They were quickly dubbed ‘Bennifer’ by the press and soon got engaged the same year, however, the wedding was called off in 2004 – and they eventually called it quits on their relationship.

Lopez reportedly listed their date of separation as April 26, 2024. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

In 2021, the pair rekindled their romance and eventually tied the knot in a Las Vegas ceremony on July 16, 2022.

They proceeded to have a traditional wedding ceremony in Savannah, Georgia on August 20, 2022.

Lopez also seems to have filed the divorce papers on the ceremony’s two-year anniversary, CNN reports.

The pair had been at the epicenter of divorce rumors for some time, though nothing was confirmed until now.

This marks Lopez’s fourth marriage – with her previous marriage being to singer Marc Anthony – and Affleck’s second.

His first marriage was to actor and Daredevil co-star Jennifer Garner, with whom he has three children.

UNILAD has reached out to representatives of Lopez and Affleck for comment.

This is a developing story and will be updated accordingly.

Fans of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck continue to speculate about their relationship status after the pair were spotted on a recent outing almost kissing – but not quite.

After initially calling off their engagement in 2003, Lopez and Affleck – also known as Bennifer – delighted millennials everywhere when they got back together and married in 2022.

Ben Affleck and JLo finally married in 2022. (MEGA/GC Images)

Two years on, the couple have found themselves at the center of speculation as insiders have claimed their marriage is ‘over’.

One person with knowledge of the couple alleged Affleck had moved out of the home he shared with Lopez, though they have been seen out together since.

The pair were seen on an outing with Affleck’s mom, Christopher Anne Boldt, in Santa Monica on Sunday (June 2), though they didn’t do anything to dispel the rumors of trouble between them.

Images of the couple showed them leaning towards each other for a kiss, but instead puckering their lips just next to one another’s cheeks, rather than actually making contact.

Internet users have described their actions as ‘awkward’. (Gotham/GC Images)

According to TMZ, Affleck acknowledged paparazzi watching the couple as he gave a thumbs up while walking with Lopez.

The pair walked arm-in-arm for a moment, but they didn’t appear to be cosying up to one another.

Footage of the scene was shared on X, where one user wrote: “Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck share VERY awkward air kiss amid marriage turmoil rumors.”

The sighting came after Lopez announced the decision to cancel her tour so she could take ‘time off to be with her children, family and close friends’.

“I am completely heartsick and devastated about letting you down,” the singer wrote as she shared the news in her newsletter. “Please know that I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t feel that it was absolutely necessary.

“I promise I will make it up to you and we will all be together again. I love you all so much. Until next time.”

Lopez cancelled her tour to focus on family. (Instagram/@jlo)

Lopez previously shut down questions about her relationship with Affleck when she was confronted during a press event for her new Netflix film, Atlas.

During the event, a journalist asked whether rumors of a divorce were ‘real’.

“What is the truth?” they asked. “Para le press le Mexicana [for the Mexican press], what is the truth of the situation?”

Lopez refused to give in to the questions as she responded: “You know better than that.”

Lopez and Affleck rekindled their relationship in April 2021 after the singer split from baseball player Alex Rodriguez.