Jennifer Lopez reflects on Ben Affleck split: 'I honestly felt like I was going to die'

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Jennifer Lopez said her and Ben Affleck's breakup 20 years ago was so

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painful" she thought she'd "die." In a new interview, the singer talked about

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her latest Affleck-inspired album and what the actor-director said had to say about some seemingly personal lyrics.

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Lopez, 53, spoke to Apple Music's Zane Lowe about her forthcoming album

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This Is Me...Now, a follow-up to her hit 2002 project This Is Me...Then.

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Twenty years ago, I fell in love with the love of my life," Lopez explained.

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Now, the most amazing, incredible, unbelievable thing has happened... the

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