In the 24 hours after Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck, The greatest love story never told The documentary, which focused on the couple’s rekindled romance after 20 years of separation, was a huge success.
According to Luminate, the Prime Video flick’s U.S. viewership rose from 10.7 thousand minutes on Tuesday (August 20) – the day the singer filed for divorce from the actor after two years of marriage – to 354.1 thousand minutes on Wednesday (August 21), an increase of 3,000% in just one day.
Chronicle of the creation of their latest album This is me … nowIn the documentary, Lopez recounts how she and Affleck fell in love again nearly two decades after they called off their original engagement in 2004. They first dated in 2002 after meeting on the set of Gigli But two years later they split up, only to get back together in 2021 and finally get married a year later.
This was the fourth marriage for the “Jenny From the Block” singer, after Ojani Noa, Cris Judd and Marc Anthony, with whom she has teenagers Max and Emme. Affleck was previously married to Jennifer Garner; the ex-partners are the parents of Violet, Seraphina and Samuel.
“I never thought he and I would get back together,” Lopez said Billboard by Affleck before the premiere of The greatest love story never told. “I just couldn’t give up the idea that there was something great out there for me, even when things got really bad – and they did sometimes. Deep down, I always believed that I couldn’t give up completely. It wasn’t until I got to the point where I could really cope on my own and didn’t need to be in a relationship anymore that I felt like the universe opened up and said, ‘Well, here you go.'”
“Then this crazy, weird, magical, surreal twist in the plot where I got back together with this person, that was crazy and also very inspiring,” she added at the time of the documentary’s corresponding album, which debuted at number 38 on the Billboard 200. “So I went back into the studio and the way (2002) That’s me … back then capture that first moment, I wanted to capture that moment.”
