Ben Affleck is said to have sold himself on ‘being a changed man’ but failed to see it through during his marriage to Jennifer Lopez. 

The couple, who first dated in the Noughties, are said to have first split because of the ‘public scrutiny’ surrounding their relationship but everything seemed to be going well when they rekindled in 2021.

Yet after Lopez, 55, filed for divorce this week, a source told PageSix: ‘When they weren’t in front of the cameras. They would barely speak to each other during what was supposed to be the happiest time of their life.

‘He sold her on him being a changed man, and that lasted a very short time.’

They also claimed that Affleck – who has publicly battled with his sobriety – ‘started craving more privacy, and he could no longer take Lopez’s level of celebrity.

Ben Affleck ‘sold himself as being a changed man but it didn’t last’ before Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce (pictured in 2022)

Lopez’s representative declined to respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment. DailyMail.com has yet to hear back from Affleck’s representatives.

There’s no denying that Affleck has put those close to him through some difficult times while battling addiction.

He’s had three stints in rehab in 2001, 2017 and 2018, with his first wife Jennifer Garner staging an intervention on the most recent occasion and driving him to treatment.

He later embarrassed the Alias actress by saying that he felt trapped in the marriage while trying to stay together for the sake of their children, and would cope by drinking a bottle of Scotch and falling asleep on the couch.

After facing a backlash, he later clarified that he was in no way blaming her for his alcoholism.

Lopez and Affleck rekindled their love in 2021 and went on to wed in Las Vegas in July 2022.

But now, after months of ongoing rumors that their marriage was ending, Jennifer has filed for divorce.

She listed the date of separation as April 26, 2024, as per legal docs seen by DailyMail.com.

The couple, who first dated in the Noughties, are said to have first split because of the ‘public scrutiny’ surrounding their relationship (pictured in 2003)

The couple did not sign a prenuptial agreement before tying the knot, insiders have revealed.

Ben previously spoke about wanting to keep their relationship ‘private’ in JLo’s documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told.

The film followed the making of her latest album, This Is Me… Now, most of which was inspired by her romance with Ben.

During one part of the movie, Ben admitted that he was ‘taken aback’ when he found her musicians rifling through his private love letters which JLo had given them to look at as inspiration for her next album.

The actor had clung onto his correspondence with the singer during his 13-year marriage to Garner – and later had the letters and emails bound into a book to gift her when they reunited in 2021.

He told the camera: ‘Things that are private I always felt are sacred and special because, in part, they’re private.’

Asked by Variety earlier this year whether she and Affleck would ever star in another movie together, Lopez said, ‘Maybe, in the right thing.’

‘I mean, we love working together and being together, so maybe,’ she added.

Affleck was last seen on Tuesday morning with his ex wife Garner and kid Fin. They were returning from taking their eldest child Violet, 18, to college.

Hours later Lopez filed for divorce. It was her two year wedding anniversary with him.

Ben previously spoke about wanting to keep their relationship ‘private’ in JLo’s documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told