In 2021, the Bennifer revival finally became Instagram Official. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez didn’t post their “first photo back together” on their own social media accounts. No, they let Leah Remini post it. Leah and J.Lo have been friends for decades, and it was always a friendship I enjoyed. I feel like Leah won’t let Jennifer get away with her normal crap. But that’s just it, Jennifer wanted to have a love-relapse and she wasn’t listening to anyone who tried to tell her to be careful and proceed with caution with Ben. The first glimpse of this was the fact that Leah didn’t attend Ben and Jen’s second wedding, the one in Georgia. Then Leah was nowhere to be seen in the documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told. Leah simply hasn’t been around for a while. Now Page Six claims that Leah and Jennifer really did have a big fight and they didn’t speak to each other for a few years. But Leah got in touch recently!
Leah Remini and her best friend, Jennifer Lopez, have reconciled amidst the pop star’s marital issues, after the pals had a falling out over her marriage to Ben Affleck, a source tells Page Six. Our source tells us the longtime friends got into a fight before Lopez wed Affleck in 2022 over Remini’s concerns about the “Batman” actor.
Remini warned Lopez to remember the reason she originally broke up with the “Gone Girl” star when they first dated in 2002: “Because he is selfish and is not fully committed as a partner,” says our source.
“J.Lo was so mad, she cut off all ties,” and did not invite Remini to their wedding, says the source.
Remini was absent from the couple’s ceremony in Georgia in August, which was attended by Matt Damon, director Kevin Smith and his “Clerks” star Jason Mewes. Sources told TMZ at the time that the former Scientologist was helping her 18-year-old daughter, Sofia, get ready to head off to college.
Now that Lopez and Affleck are on the rocks — and rumors of divorce are making headlines — our source says Remini has been wanting to reconnect with her former best friend.
“They were friends for years,” a source told us earlier this week. “She wants to reach out to her, but she can’t just call up and say, ‘I told you so.’”
Now we hear that Remini has reached out — and the pair have spoken — says the source, with Remini offering her friend support.
In September 2023, Remini pal Michelle Visage was asked if the “King of Queens” star and the pop icon were still friends on “Las Culturistas” podcast. She replied, “No comment.”
I’m cracking up at the thought of Leah waiting patiently for two years, calling up her former friend, offering sympathy and a renewed friendship, all for Leah to spit out “I TOLD YOU SO.” Leah would do it too, if she hasn’t already. Like, that’s real friendship too: “don’t be a dumbass about this, Ben’s still got the same douchebag problems,” I can absolutely hear Leah saying something like that. I totally believe Jennifer cut her off after that too – J.Lo has been in this love-relapse haze and she didn’t want anything to break the spell. I hope Leah talks some sense into her.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Instagram.
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And was Leah wrong? Nope.
The lesson: listen to your girlfriends (and have the kind of friends who will tell it to you straight).
This happened to me last year.
One of my girlfriend wad “engaged” with an idiot.
Seriously. Me and all of her friends were telling her he was a clown.
I mean for the first time in my life I said “when you dump him I’ll offer you a dinner in a fancy restaurant”.
I discovered that other friends told her the exact same thing. That’s how bad he was.
But she kept seeing whatever she wanted to see.
I stopped talking to her because it was infuriating. I didn’t cut the tie, just STFU.
Until of course he ghosted her out of the blue. Then she reached me out for support.
Maybe something similar happened?
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We all need one friend like Leah who will say, ‘what the F are you doing’?
You’d think so, but some people really don’t want any feedback and don’t take it well even if you give gentle feedback after listening to BS stories for MONTHS without a word.
But then some of those same people want you to listen to all the endless ups and downs and be sympathetic when you KNOW the person isn’t treating them well/isn’t worth it, or sometimes isn’t that into them. Or they may tell you that you made them feel bad when you were just finding it hard to be enthusiastic about a toxic story of someone treating them poorly.
Yes ha ha ha I’m a bit burnt out by some peoples’ love drama. We’re in our late 40s. Grow UP!!!!
Yeah, it’s hard when your amazing friend has a terribly broken picker and is fixated on trash.
I’m that person and sadly often you just lose a friend or family member, period. Sometimes you are even on the receiving end of untrue and unfair gossip, smart people see thru it but not all. It does have it’s downside.
I even did it in the work environment and let’s just say being straightforward and honest doesn’t always work out to your advantage. The saying no good deed goes unpunished is accurate in these cases.
I can believe Leah tried to get Jlo to slow down and take more time on the relationship and Jlo getting mad because her mind interpreted it as “you’re not enough for him”.
Whatever happened between Jlo and Leah, if they want to renew the friendship then I hope they do.
I can believe Leah told JLo not to marry Ben.
Totally! I love you the various interviews these two have done together over the years. Leah does not hesitate to tell Jennifer when she’s acting like a princess.
I dont think that Jlo takes too kindly to opposing advice. I dont get her obsession with having to get engaged or married,why does she not try an alternative partnership ala Goldie and Russel,Helena Carter and Tim Burton, Woody and Mia Farrow.
Well, two of the three ended in unmitigated disaster!
How was HBC and Tim Burton unmitigated disaster? They were together for years, had kids and homes next door to each other and then broke up. I don’t recall hearing a bunch of drama about the break up (other than him being messy and their standard weird and dramatic selves) but I also don’t pay all that much attention to them.
I am much more interested in Jlo and Leah reconnecting than Ben and Jlo.
Now that is the greatest love story never told. They have been through it all together.
Ahahah 😂
I smell a sequel! “The Greatest Love Story Never Told 2: The Real Greatest Love Story Never Told Was The Friends We Made Along The Way”
LMAO!!!
THIS!! I used to love their videos when they would hang out and cook. It was the most normal and fun J Lo ever seemed. I used to envy J Lo for having Leah as a bestie back in the A Rod days. She is hilarious.
I am Leah. Leah is me. I am always the friend who winds up saying “I told you so”. Which can be satisfying but also sucks when you have a friend make a terrible life decision.
I would never talk to someone again who disrespected me like this. Ending a decades long friendship over a delusional romance? Jennifer does not deserve a friend like Leah. After everything Leah has been through, she’s better off without an immature and self-centered piece of work like JLO.
I adore Leah, partially because she knows she is a lot. These are two massive personalities, I am sure they have both had to apologize to each other over the decades.
Oh please, she knows what Jlo went through with Ben the first time around, and helps her pick up the pieces. So she couldn’t be there to see her friend make the same mistakes again it’s best to remove yourself from the toxic energy.
She saw that Jlo was going through it and came to support her friend.
You don’t know what immaturity is because maturity is knowing when a situation is toxic for you and how you cannot be the best support for someone else and removing yourself from that situation. As well as protecting your mental health from situations that may affect it.
I think JLo is constantly surrounded by yes men who never tell her no. Leah was a friend who grounded her and told her the truth. She was brave enough to stand up to Scientology too, I wonder which was scarier – that, or telling JLo she’s making a mistake.
She’s friends with Marc also, but she showed up to his 7,000th marriage to a 20-something.
I could see Jennifer and Leah laughing and being very clear that Marc will be getting married for the rest of his life. That’s what he does. And showing up for his weddings is like going to any other party.
That is not the same as Jennifer falling back in love and making the same mistakes with the guy Leah has listened to her talking about off and on for 20 years.
I have a friend right now who keeps wanting to talk about rekindling with a guy who did her dirty and I keep wanting to say “I don’t know why you can’t tell he’s trash but his stench is wafting from miles away. What are you DOING?!”
I think they’ve clashed over the years and make up. I read she posted that photo of Ben and Jen without their permission. But Leah was portrayed in the musical movie J-Lo did. In the circle of friends in the movie living through all of JLo’s marriages and love life, they don’t have names. They have their personality traits as their name. Leah was portrayed as “the fighter.” I spotted that she was Leah right away. I loved the character in the movie. She called J-Lo on her bullshit in the movie.
This article is reaching. I sincerely doubt Jennifer and Leah didn’t talk for two years because Leah warned her about Ben. This article is obviously coming from Leah’s camp – maybe Jennifer had a reason for cutting her out.
She probably told JL to just date him ( more like something else, lol) but FGS don’t marry him!!!
If someone like Ben, with whom a friend of mine shared a loaded past, emailed one of my friends when she was in a troubled relationship and my friend ditched her boyfriend to jump in with the Ben character, I would also as a long-time friend have something to say about it.
The fact that both Leah and Jen have been able to reconnect again, presuming they can overcome whatever caused the rift, sounds promising. Someone who has known you for about half your life and loves you is so important. They read you and you have shared memories and interests.
Knew those would happen