Ben Affleck's 2002 Love Letter to Jennifer Lopez Popped Up in the Most Unexpected Place

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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are revealing a very intimate side to their love from over two decades ago. The 54-year-old singer has been teasing her new album film for This Is Me…Now and the clip released on Monday shows a romantic note Affleck wrote to J.Lo in 2002 — and it will have you swooning. 

The letter makes an appearance 10 seconds into the teaser which shows Lopez soaking wet by a fire as the rain comes pounding down outside her open-air living room. Fans get a quick glimpse, and we mean quick, of the words of love Affleck wrote to his girlfriend at the time. “Life’s tough but you’re sweet,” the note reads. “Thanks for the gift. Hope you like the flowers. You told me you could never have enough. I believe you.” He dated the letter Dec. 24, 2002, and signed it lovingly with his first initial “B.”

This album might be her most personal one yet because it dives behind the scenes with her Affleck romance, and how their reunion changed the outcome of their entire lives. Lopez’s voiceover even seems to indicate that sentiment in the clip. “When I was a little girl when someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was always: in love,” she says. Affleck won’t be surprised by anything in the film, though, because he co-wrote it with her. 

Her This Is Me…Now album and Amazon Prime film will be released on the same date: Feb. 16, 2024, with the first single, “Can’t Get Enough,” dropping Jan. 10. But fans better get ready for a side they’ve never seen before of the multi-talented artist. “This album is the most honest thing I have done, a culmination of who I am as a person and an artist,” Lopez promised Vogue in 2022. “People think they know things about what happened to me along the way — but they really have no idea and a lot of times they get it so wrong. There’s a part of me that was hiding a side of myself from everyone.”

Before you go, click here to see a complete timeline of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s relationship.