Jennifer Lopez Talks Ben Affleck: 'They Were Really Hard On Us In The Press'

J.Lo Talks 'Bennifer': 'They Were Really Hard On Us'
HOLLYWOOD - MARCH 23: (FILE PHOTO) Actors Ben Affleck and fiancee Jennifer Lopez attend the 75th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater on March 23, 2003 in Hollywood, California. Police in North Carolina have issued a warrant for the arrest of Ben Affleck after a woman claimed that he threatened to kill her. In a sworn statement in front of a magistrate the woman, Tara Ray, testified that Affleck had followed her home and communicated threats to her. Aflleck's spokesman called the allegation as absurd and defamatory. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD - MARCH 23: (FILE PHOTO) Actors Ben Affleck and fiancee Jennifer Lopez attend the 75th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater on March 23, 2003 in Hollywood, California. Police in North Carolina have issued a warrant for the arrest of Ben Affleck after a woman claimed that he threatened to kill her. In a sworn statement in front of a magistrate the woman, Tara Ray, testified that Affleck had followed her home and communicated threats to her. Aflleck's spokesman called the allegation as absurd and defamatory. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Some have already pointed out that Jennifer Lopez looked particularly proud of ex-boyfriend (and ex-fiancé) Ben Affleck at the Golden Globes Sunday. Now the 43-year-old singer is admitting that she was really happy for the actor-director in a new interview with Ellen DeGeneres, airing Wednesday.

"[Argo] was a great movie," Lopez says. "And, we got you know, a lot of like ... They were really hard on us in the press when we dated back in the day. On movies and things like that. So it was a nice moment. It was nice to see him have that moment. I was really happy for him."

What is Lopez referring to when she says "really hard" on her and Affleck, whom she dated from 2002 to 2004? Maybe it was all of those Bennifer jokes, the box-office bomb that was "Gigli" or Affleck's ill-advised cameo in Lopez's music video for "Jenny from the Block."

Even Affleck himself has called that period the lowest point of his life, saying to Details magazine in October, “[It] was definitely the annus horribilis. I got shorthanded as That Guy — Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer, blah blah blah.”

Revisit Bennifer in "Jenny from the Block" below:

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