- Jennifer Lopez said she had "a little PTSD" while planning her 2022 wedding to Ben Affleck.
- Lopez said that she was worried because they had split up while they were engaged in the 2000s.
Jennifer Lopez said that she had "a little PTSD" about getting married to Ben Affleck after their previous engagement fell apart 20 years ago.
Lopez and Affleck were initially engaged in 2002, months after they began dating. The engagement fell through in 2004, but in 2021, the couple rekindled their relationship and got engaged again. When it came to their wedding this time around, the couple decided to have a private Vegas ceremony before their big day.
During a recent press conference for her new movie "Shotgun Wedding," Lopez admitted that the Vegas wedding helped take the "pressure off" their second, more public ceremony in Georgia.
Lopez further elaborated on her and Affleck's Vegas nuptials when appearing on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Wednesday night.
"We were planning to get married in August in Savannah. That was like, 'Okay, the family's gonna be there, everybody's going to be there,' and it was so stressful," Lopez said. "I don't know if you guys know this, but 20 years ago we were supposed to get married and it kind of all fell apart back then, and this time it was like, I absolutely did have a little PTSD, and so I was just like, 'Is this happening? Is this really happening?'"
She continued: "We were so happy and, of course, it was happening. But I just felt like the wedding was so stressful, and one day Ben just says, 'Okay, let's just go to Vegas and get married tonight.'"
Lopez recalled that they decided to go to Vegas after a big wedding planning meeting where her planners were trying to move the venue outside of the United States.
"We hung up the phone and I was just like, 'This is crazy. What are we doing?' and he was like, 'You know what,'" Lopez said. "I had rehearsal that day. I was like, 'I cannot go, I have rehearsal today for my show.' He was like, 'Go to rehearsal when you get back here I'm gonna have everything all set up.'"
Lopez said Affleck then went to collect all of their children from previous relationships to be witnesses at the wedding and planned their trip to Vegas.
Lopez added: "It was amazing. It was the best night of our lives."