Jennifer Lopez spoke of her husband, Ben Affleck, for the first time publicly yesterday since rumors began swirling about the state of their relationship last week—egged on by his absence last night at her movie premiere for Atlas, which drops on Netflix this Friday.
Lopez was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! promoting the film and definitely didn’t address their relationship status—Are they getting divorced? Are they living apart?—but did speak of Affleck, specifically their first engagement story. (Yes, there have been two engagements, lest we forget.) The story came up in the context of Lopez describing her first-ever meeting with her idol Barbra Streisand 20 years ago, during which Streisand called attention to Lopez’s first engagement ring from Affleck, given to her in 2002.
