REVEALED: The real reason Ben Affleck 'pulled the plug' on his marriage to Jennifer Lopez and more jaw-dropping new details

The promotional videos couldn't look glossier. A cleanable Italian summer's day, nan rugged Amalfi seashore successful nan backdrop, beautiful group smiling and clinking glasses — and, astatine nan centre of nan group, an exquisitely made-up Jennifer Lopez. She smiles knowingly to nan camera, arsenic she prepares to sip her drink.

This, then, was nan motorboat of J-Lo's ain cocktail range, Delola. In communal pinch different Hollywood celebrities specified arsenic Sarah Jessica Parker and George Clooney, J-Lo had sought to create her ain alcohol offering successful an effort to further monetise her empire.

One wonders if nan marque of spirits and consequence juice mixes were really worthy it.

For, arsenic a friend adjacent to her hubby Ben Affleck told nan Mail, her intoxicant task was 'one of nan things that collapsed nan camel's back'.

Indeed, they spell truthful acold arsenic to opportunity it contributed to Ben, not Jen, being nan 1 to propulsion nan plug connected their national amid speculation that their matrimony is yet astatine an end.

Why was Ben, 51, truthful infuriated by this precocious floor plan commercialized enterprise? Friends opportunity that, arsenic a recovering alcoholic, he felt his woman trading vodka and tequila tipples was not only insulting to him, but dangerous. He had, aft all, spent galore years battling his addiction.

When nan explanation was first launched past year, he was said to beryllium devastated.

His wounded was only heightened by his belief that her information for launching her drinks' marque was purely financial — for cold, difficult cash.

First seeking thief for his alcoholism successful 2001, Ben has since been successful rehab aggregate times. His drinking led to nan breakdown of his matrimony to Jennifer Garner.

To make matters worse, J-Lo past went connected a very nationalist promo run wherever she told nan Press really overmuch she loves to portion to 'relax and fto loose'.

Even this week, she released an image of herself lounging connected a sunbed successful a swimming costume to advertise nan latest summation to nan range.

But by continuing to waste intoxicant Ben thought she was 'rubbing his look successful it', that it was thing he finds 'sick'.

One friend of nan character told nan Mail: 'Ben had to conflict to get his life backmost aft overcoming alcohol. Knowing really he mislaid everything including nan emotion of his family, knowing that he could perchance relapse, Jen decided to commencement her ain spritzer statement for much money, arsenic if she did not person enough.

'This was 1 of nan things that collapsed nan camel's back. But Ben saved his sobriety.'

Last week, nan Mail revealed really Jen and Ben — who starred successful Oscar-winning movies specified arsenic Good Will Hunting and Argo — person prepared their divorcement paperwork and will record astatine nan extremity of nan summer.

In May Ben moved retired of their sprawling Beverly Hills mansion, which they bought soon aft they married successful July, 2022.

After a last effort astatine reconciliation successful caller weeks failed, nan couple's divorcement documents 'are finalised, but not yet turned in', aggregate sources person claimed.

One said: 'They are waiting for nan correct clip to driblet them. At that time, they will merchandise a associated connection that will opportunity really they person overmuch emotion for each different and really they fought to make it work, but couldn't.

'Honestly, successful nan end, they could not travel to a compromise. What they had earlier is gone and they person some accepted it.'

It's a sorry extremity to what looked for illustration being an inspiring communicative of rekindled mislaid love.

The brace sewage together successful 2002, became engaged, but divided successful 2004 earlier they sewage married.

Ben went connected to wed Jennifer Garner successful 2005, and they had 3 children together, earlier splitting successful 2015 and finalising their divorcement 3 years later.

Jo-Lo went connected to marry singer/songwriter Marc Anthony, pinch whom she had 16-year-old twins. Their matrimony lasted 10 years.

In 2021, following J-Lo's doomed engagement to shot subordinate Alex Rodriguez, Ben and nan vocalist sewage backmost together, delighting fans and fascinating nan world's Press by adjacent measure.

The pursuing twelvemonth they tied nan knot successful Las Vegas, past held a 2nd lavish ceremonial astatine Ben's £7 cardinal plantation spot successful Georgia.

However, nan mates person not been seen together for weeks, pinch Ben staying distant from J-Lo's Bridgerton-themed 55th day statement past month.

Instead, he bought a £16 cardinal bachelor pad successful Los Angeles aft nan mates put their £53 cardinal location successful Beverly Hills up for sale.

But arsenic acold backmost arsenic past twelvemonth location were issues. When J-Lo launched her drinks marque Delola successful April 2023, to Ben this was a informing motion that she valued her profession much than him.

His desire for a backstage life, and hers for a no-hold's barred, access-all-areas benignant of exposure, past came to a caput this year.

While he made efforts to accommodate her request for publicity, their different attitudes to their careers shook nan foundations of their marriage.

A friend said: 'Ben was nan 1 to propulsion nan plug connected their matrimony here. Jennifer had him judge she was nan aforesaid personification that she was erstwhile they fell successful emotion nan first time, truthful he saw this arsenic picking correct backmost up. He doesn't for illustration nan personage reddish carpet thing, but he did it because she loved it.

'Her obsession pinch fame became excessively overmuch for him. She needed to beryllium photographed and adored. She would stock truthful overmuch of herself pinch nan world that he felt location was thing near ineffable for him. She needed to do this. This had go a portion of who she was — fame.

'It wasn't conscionable a job, but a measurement of life for her and she could not springiness this enactment up successful nan end. She chose fame complete him, conscionable arsenic she did pinch her erstwhile 3 marriages.'

Indeed, J-Lo appeared to beryllium moulding overmuch of her new, lucrative commercialized output astir their revitalised romance. Some spell truthful acold arsenic to opportunity that he was fuming that her caller medium centred astir him — and that he was wholly opposed to her TV documentary, This Is Me... Now: A Love Story.

This documentary told nan communicative of Jen's travel to emotion done her ain eyes, and was relentlessly mocked, flopping among audiences and losing millions.

A root adjacent to nan mates opportunity Ben was furious. 'He didn't want her to do this astatine all. She asked him to put successful it and beryllium progressive successful a task he was perfectly against.

'In nan end, he was gladsome it flopped. It excessively destroyed their marriage.

'Ben didn't want it [their emotion story] to beryllium told. Only she did.

'They mislaid £18 cardinal and [it] ruined Ben's spot successful her. Ben seeing her dispersed their emotion letters connected a array for others to publication [as she did onscreen] infuriated him. This is erstwhile he knew that she put fame supra love.'

Indeed, during nan documentary, J-Lo showed a book to nan camera, saying: 'This book is simply a book Ben gave maine connected our first Christmas backmost together. It is each missive and each message that we wrote each different from 20 years agone and today.'

She highlighted 1 statement that read: 'The Greatest Love Story Never Told by Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck 2001-2010... and counting…'

But a friend of Ben's said: 'He asked her to not do nan documentary because he wanted to support this worldly backstage — and because it costs excessively overmuch money — but she did it anyway. He asked her to propulsion backmost from doing reddish carpets and events truthful overmuch and she wouldn't listen. She dragged him retired anyway. It was ne'er astir him. It was ever astir her.'

Certainly, backmost successful May, nan brace looked tense astatine nan premiere of J-Lo's Netflix movie The Mother. She later revealed they had fought complete her outfit choices, saying: 'He'll joke pinch maine sometimes ... he'll opportunity things like, 'Where's nan remainder of that shirt?'.

'I'm like, 'Oh, this 1 doesn't person thing else'.'

Then, suddenly, J-Lo called disconnected her upcoming summertime tour, telling fans she was 'taking clip disconnected to beryllium pinch her children, family and adjacent friends.'

Shortly afterwards, Ben was pictured pinch character ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, taking their boy Samuel, 12, to hoops believe successful Santa Monica.

The adjacent time J-Lo arrived to besides spot Samuel play and shared an awkward-looking buss pinch her husband. The Batman character has been seen precocious without his wedding ring, while his woman has kept hers on.

Then location was their location — that £53 cardinal whopper successful Beverly Hills. Ben, it seems, simply thought it was excessively expensive.

Friends opportunity J-Lo thought this would make nan family — her twins Emme and Max, 16, and Ben's kids Violet, 19, Fin, 15, and Samuel, 12 — happy. It didn't.

'Buying that monolithic location was different immense reddish flag,' said 1 adjacent to Ben. 'He didn't want that location because it costs a ridiculous magnitude of money. It ne'er felt for illustration location to him and he cannot moreover judge that he moved into nan home.

'She didn't want a marital location for them to turn aged in. She wanted a monolithic building that costs much than anyone else's location to flaunt her wealthiness and her matrimony in. She thought that this would make everyone happy. They fought relentlessly astir this.'

A descent successful her career, which she fought truthful relentlessly to win in, aft nan nonaccomplishment of nan documentary besides apparently caused tensions, according to a source.

'She became little popular, little group wanted to spot her execute and this made her irate and she took it retired connected Ben. She started to realise her prima was fading and he told her it was her ain responsibility because she was overexposed.

'She took nan truth that her documentary and medium was a flop retired connected Ben because, arsenic her husband, he was nan closest 1 to her. He asked her to return a measurement backmost and she didn't. He wasn't a immense instrumentality of her caller medium being truthful centred astir him and she thought it was beautiful.'

Sources opportunity that their 5 children are keen to enactment successful touch, contempt nan fraught emotions that surrounded nan very nationalist demise of their parents' romance.

A root said: 'It is difficult connected nan kids, but successful nan extremity they are each beautiful grown up. Enough grown up to beryllium capable to spot that it was not moving betwixt their parents. The kids will beryllium okay and will still beryllium close. Becoming a family for a infinitesimal was nosy and this will ever beryllium typical successful their hearts.'

J-Lo, though, is now azygous astatine 55 pinch 4 marriages nether her belt. Friends fearfulness she sabotages her romances.

'She knows she destroyed it each and was ace apologetic, but it was excessively late,' 1 said. 'He tried for a mates weeks, giving her nan use of nan doubt, and moreover wore nan ringing because she asked him to truthful that they could get a small abstraction from nan hounding Press, but he's done.

'He recovered his ain location and she is not surviving successful it. It is successful his name. She knows this and now it is clip for them some to move on.'

Ben, apparently, is giving his estranged woman 'time to rebrand'.

Friends of nan vocalist opportunity she has changed nan measurement she dresses and nan measurement she presents herself.

'She is smiling successful public, and she is not acting each for illustration a diva. Her societal media is agleam and happy, and she is speaking astir her existent feelings of being fragile.

'She is staying retired of nan spotlight and keeping her life private. Basically, Jennifer is now pretending to beryllium nan personification that Ben thought she was each along. This made him autumn successful emotion pinch her, but he is not going to autumn a 3rd time. Two strikes she's out. They are done.'