'Selling Sunset' star Emma Hernan says she turned down a date with Ben Affleck shortly before he rekindled with Jennifer Lopez

• Emma Hernan said Ben Affleck asked her out "right before" he got back together with Jennifer Lopez.
• On "Selling Sunset" season five, she recalled matching with the actor on Raya, a dating app.

"Selling Sunset" star Emma Hernan said she declined several of Ben Affleck's date invitations shortly before he rekindled his romance with Jennifer Lopez, his now-fiancée.

"He may or may not have been texting me," she told her costar Chrishell Stause on episode five of the Netflix reality show's fifth season, which premiered Friday.

Hernan continued, "He may or may not have asked to grab coffee a few times."

The real-estate agent explained that she matched with Affleck on Raya, an exclusive dating app known for its celebrity users, after Stause brought up the viral video he sent to a woman after she unmatched him on the app in 2021.

Hernan said the "Batman" actor initiated their conversation by mentioning Boston, their shared hometown.

"We have the Boston connection, so that was his opening pickup line," she explained, adding that even though she turned down the actor, she found their exchange "very sweet."

"You could've foiled Bennifer," Stause told her, referring to the couple name that's followed Lopez and Affleck since they first began dating in the early 2000s. It resurged in popularity when they got back together in 2021.

Hernan responded: "Right? It was right before that. Maybe that wouldn't have happened."

In early 2021, Lopez and Affleck were both newly single; she had called off her engagement with former MLB star Alex Rodriguez, and he had ended his relationship with "Knives Out" actress Ana de Armas.

The "Gigli" costars, who were engaged in 2002 before calling off their nuptials the following year, began spending time together. By April 2022, the old flames were engaged for the second time.

"True love exists and forever is real," the "Hustlers" actress wrote in the engagement announcement she distributed in her newsletter.

This will be Lopez's fourth trip to the altar. She previously wed actor Ojani Noa, actor Cris Judd, and singer Marc Anthony, with whom she shares 14-year-old twins Emme and Maximilian.

Affleck was married to Jennifer Garner from 2005 to 2018 and shares three children — Violet, 16; Seraphina, 13; and Samuel, 10 — with the "13 Going on 30" actress.