{"id":485369,"date":"2026-01-01T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/485369\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:08:10","slug":"jennifer-lopez-nods-to-ben-affleck-divorce-at-las-vegas-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/485369\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez Nods to Ben Affleck Divorce at Las Vegas Residency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jennifer Lopez made a reference to her ex-husband Ben Affleck during the opening night of her Las Vegas residency<\/li>\n<li>At the Dec. 30 concert at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, she reflected on what happened in her life in the 10 years since her previous Las Vegas residency<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAnd in that time, I&#8217;ve only been married twice,\u201d she joked to the crowd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/jennifer-lopez\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Lopez<\/a> humorously reflected on her romantic life with a nod to ex-husband <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/ben-affleck\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Affleck<\/a> at the opening night of her Las Vegas residency.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> On Tuesday, Dec. 30, at the first of her <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jennifer-lopez-in-her-happy-era-kicks-off-las-vegas-residency-11877747\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Up All Night concerts at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace,<\/a> the \u201cLet\u2019s Get Loud\u201d singer, 56, reflected on how her life had changed in the decade since her previous Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood\u2019s Zappos Theater.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cIt&#8217;s such a huge honor to be asked back. Do you know that it&#8217;s been 10 years, 10 years since my last residency here. Almost 10 years to the day. It was in January. That went by in a blink, didn&#8217;t it?\u201d she told the crowd.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cAnd in that time, I&#8217;ve only been married twice,\u201d she said to laughter.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p> Jennifer Lopez on Dec. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Denise Truscello\/Getty \u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_11-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cThat&#8217;s not true. It was only once. It felt like twice,\u201d she added to more laughter from the audience.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cI&#8217;m just kidding. I&#8217;m just kidding. I&#8217;m just kidding. It&#8217;s over and we just &#8230; It&#8217;s fine,\u201d she said as she kicked the air while a drummer hit a cymbal for comic effect.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_17-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cIt&#8217;s all good. The good news is that I&#8217;m learning and I&#8217;m growing and we&#8217;re in our happy era. I\u2019m in my happy era,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Lopez originally dated Argo star Affleck, 53, from 2002 to 2004 after meeting on the set of the movie Gigli. They reunited in 2021 and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-didnt-want-wedding-spectacle-exclusive\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eloped at A Little White Wedding Chapel<\/a> in July 2022. Lopez <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-divorce-8649120\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed for divorce in August 2024<\/a>, on the two-year anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/jennifer-lopez-reveals-photos-from-georgia-wedding-ben-affleck\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">larger wedding reception<\/a> they held at the actor\u2019s Georgia compound.\n<\/p>\n<p> Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>John Shearer\/Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> In September, Lopez <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jennifer-lopez-shares-candid-comments-about-ben-affleck-divorce-11820159\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opened up about the split<\/a> on CBS News Sunday Morning, calling the wisdom she gained from the experience \u201cthe best thing that ever happened to me.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;Because it changed me. It helped me grow in a way that I needed to grow,\u201d she added.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Since their split, Affleck and Lopez have remained amicable. <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/watch-jennifer-lopez-spot-ben-affleck-kiss-of-the-spider-woman-premiere-11825707\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They reunited<\/a> at the October premiere of her movie Kiss of the Spider Woman, on which Affleck was a producer, and posed together on the red carpet.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_30-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> They were also <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-reunite-at-the-mall-with-his-son-sam-exclusive-source-11875652\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spotted shopping together<\/a> with Affleck\u2019s 13-year-old son Samuel (whom he shares with ex-wife Jennifer Garner) in L.A. on Dec. 21.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_32-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Affleck also shares children Violet, 20, and Seraphina, 16, with Garner, while Lopez shares 17-year-old twins Max and Emme with ex-husband Marc Anthony.\n<\/p>\n<p> Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck at the &#8216;Kiss of the Spider Woman&#8217; premiere on Oct. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora Rose\/Variety via Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_35-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> During the opening night of her residency, Lopez also <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/jennifer-lopez-marc-anthony-split\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referenced her split<\/a> from &#8220;My Baby You&#8221; singer Anthony, 57.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_37-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cI do love to dance. And if you take anything away from this show tonight, I hope it&#8217;s this. It&#8217;s a little story I have. It was after my third divorce, that&#8217;s when I really started getting good at it, by the way,\u201d Lopez, who was previously wed to Ojani Noa and Cris Judd.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_39-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cSeriously, it was a rough time. It was a rough time. And it was one of those times where I was about to give up on all that. I was a single mom for the first time with two little three-year-old twins. And I had a mentor at the time named Louise Hay, very wise woman,\u201d she continued, referencing the late author.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_41-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cAnd she said to me, \u2018Jennifer, you&#8217;re a dancer, right?\u2019 I said, \u2018Yes, I am.\u2019 She goes, &#8216;When you&#8217;re learning to dance and you get the steps wrong, what do you do?\u2019 I said, \u2018I just keep going until I get the steps right.\u2019 And she said, \u2018That&#8217;s right, Jennifer. Always keep dancing.\u2019 And I wish the same for you that no matter what life throws at you, that you dance and you dance and you dance again and again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Jennifer Lopez made a reference to her ex-husband Ben Affleck during the opening night of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":485370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-485369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115821419260876846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}