While this “hasn’t been the easiest summer” for Ben Affleck, the Oscar winner is reportedly “trying to stay focused” and keep himself busy with work as rumors swirl that he and wife Jennifer Lopez aren’t speaking amid their rumored divorce.
The “Gone Girl” star, 51, “thrives when he’s busy and he’s been working nonstop,” a source told People late Friday, adding that Affleck is just trying to “make every day as good as possible.”
Earlier in the week, the “Good Will Hunting” star was photographed without his wedding ring as he left his production company’s office in Los Angeles — the same day TMZ reported that Affleck and Lopez aren’t even speaking to one another.
According to the outlet, the lack of communication has made it “difficult to hammer out a divorce agreement,” which is reportedly being handled by the pair’s respective business managers.
The sighting came just days before an insider told Us Weekly that Affleck “knows the marriage is done” — a realization solidified by the purchase of his new Pacific Palisades abode.
Meanwhile, Lopez — who spent most of the month of July in New York City and at her luxury estate in the Hamptons — was back in Los Angeles this week. She was seen wearing her wedding band on Friday while out to lunch in Beverly Hills, after previously swapping her engagement ring to her right hand.
When asked by TMZ how she and Affleck are doing amid the public speculation, the “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” singer refused to comment.
The latest updates come on the heels of the estranged couple spending their second wedding anniversary and J.Lo’s 55th birthday on opposite sides of the country.
Affleck and Lopez were engaged in the early 2000s and, following a highly publicized split, wed and had families with Jennifer Garner and Marc Anthony, respectively. They reconciled in 2021 and tied the knot the following summer.
“In a perfect world, Jen would like to make it work with Ben,” a source told Us this week, noting she “tried very hard” to do that.
But it seems the duo feel there’s no choice but to try to move on.
Affleck will “always care for Jen,” another insider said, but now “he wants to focus on himself” and is “pushing forward.”
