Jennifer Lopez has opened up about what reigniting her spark with Ben Affleck has been like - and it hasn't all been smooth-sailing.
The singer/actress, 52, got back together with the actor last spring after ending her engagement to baseball player Alex Rodriguez.
The pair famously dated between 2002 and 2004 and were hailed as an iconic Hollywood couple.
However not long after Affleck popped the question, the pair's romance crumbled and resulted in a break-up just four days before their wedding.
And although it took nearly two decades for the pair to come back to one another, it seems as though 'Bennifer' is now stronger than ever, despite the harsh criticism that came with their reunion.
When Lopez and Affleck dated the first time around, South Park called her a "mean-spirited b****" in an episode that mocked her Latin heritage, meanwhile, Conan O'Brien said that, as stand-ins for the couple in a sketch, he'd cast "our script intern" as Affleck and "our cleaning lady" as Lopez.
"It was brutal," Lopez told Rolling Stone."It was brutal. It's one of those things that you bury very deeply so you can move on and get about your business."
She went on: "It’s funny because Ben and I were together, and we were so in love. It was one of the happiest times of my life.
"But also, there was this other thing happening where we were being criticized, and it really destroyed our relationship from the inside out, because we were just too young to understand at that time what were really the most important things in life."
Lopez said she does not see the relationship ending this time. "I don't think we would have got back together if we thought that was where it was headed," she added.
"We feel like what we found again is so much more important, and how we protect that and how we live our lives – what to share, what not to share – is the balance that we have now, the benefit of experience and the wisdom that we gained over the years."
Following her initial split from Affleck, Lopez went on to marry Marc Anthony in 2004 - which was her third time walking down the aisle. She and Marc went on to welcome two children, before their divorce in 2014. The pair have remained on good terms.
More recently, Lopez's relationship with baseball star Alex Rodriguez, 45, came to an end in April earlier this year. The pair had been dating since 2017.
Meanwhile, Affleck went on to date actress Jennifer Garner, whom he married in 2005. The pair went on to welcome three children together before their divorce in 2018.