It’s been eight sad months since Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck filed for divorce, but Affleck remains committed to peppering his ex-wife with niceties every time a microphone is nearby. During the premiere of The Accountant 2 on Wednesday night, he made a pit stop on the red carpet to chat with Entertainment Tonight about his plus-ones for the evening. “The kids are here; Jen’s kids are here. I’m very, very excited,” he said. “I love when all the kids come out.” When the reporter commended him for “continuing those relationships” with his ex’s kids, Affleck switched into his favorite mode: praising J.Lo.
“I don’t read the stuff online much, but sometimes I get the sense that people … want to find something negative to talk about,” he said of his split from his ex-wife. “For the record, Jennifer Lopez is spectacular, great to my kids, has a great ongoing relationship with them. I love her kids. They are wonderful.”
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“She is an enormously important, tremendous person of a lot of integrity who I adore and am grateful to,” he added. “Those kids are amazing, and I’m glad that this is a movie they want to come to.”
This isn’t the first time Affleck has let loose a stream of glowing compliments about his ex-wife. Just last month, the actor told GQ in a cover story that he has “nothing but respect” for J.Lo. Actually, it’s not even the first time he’s called her “spectacular” — he used the same word back in November, fittingly also at a movie premiere, to describe her work in Unstoppable. At this rate, he’s going to have come up with some new adjectives.
