The Greatest Love Story Never Told, Jennifer Lopez’s documentary about her romance with Ben Affleck, sparked a surge in viewership amid their divorce news.
After news that Lopez, 55, filed for divorce from Affleck, 52, made headlines, streaming numbers for her documentary on Prime Video jumped in just 24 hours.
The singer released her independently produced project, which chronicles how the couple rekindled their romance after 20 years apart and explores her journey to self-love, earlier this year on February 27.
However, the highest surge of viewership occurred following the revelation that they secretly separated just weeks after her documentary’s release.
According to Luminate, The Greatest Love Story Never Told received a 3,000 percent increase in viewership in the 24 hours after it was revealed that Lopez filed for divorce after two years of marriage.
It was previously revealed that Lopez did not want to give up on their marriage and spent months trying to salvage their relationship but couldn’t fix the ‘darkness’ in him.
The Greatest Love Story Never Told, Jennifer Lopez ‘s documentary about her romance with Ben Affleck , sparked a surge in viewership amid their divorce news
After news that Lopez, 55, filed for divorce from Affleck, 52, made headlines, streaming numbers for her documentary on Prime Video jumped in just 24 hours
Billboard reported that the number of minutes watched in the U.S. went from 10.7k on Tuesday to 354.1k minutes on Wednesday.
Lopez’s flick documents the making of her album This Is Me… Now and recounts how she and her now-estranged husband almost got married nearly two decades ago but ended up calling off their engagement in 2004.
The pair rekindled their romance in 2021 and tied the knot the following year.
And since news of their divorce made headlines, several of Affleck’s quotes from the documentary resurfaced online.
Fans claimed that he was hinting at the strain in their marriage as they pointed out his distinctively disinterested demeanor, which was said to have intensified as Lopez showed off the love letters he had written to her.
At one point in the flick, he appeared shocked that their love letters were no longer private and she had shown other people.
He recalled his discovery and said: ‘I came to the house one day, and she had told me, “Musicians are coming, this great producer Rogét [Chahayed], blah blah blah.”
‘And then, I went down there and my book that I had given her was down there,’ he recalled.
‘She was like, “I’ve been reading, this is the kind of inspiration, I’ve been showing them the book.”
‘I was like, “You’ve been showing all the musicians all those letters?” And they were like, “Yeah, we call you Pen Affleck, and I was like, “Oh my God.”‘
The number of minutes watched in the U.S. went from 10.7k on Tuesday to 354.1k minutes on Wednesday following her divorce filing
The singer released her independently produced project, which chronicles how the couple rekindled their romance after 20 years apart and explores her journey to self-love, earlier this year on February 27. However, the highest surge of viewership occurred following the revelation that they secretly separated just weeks after her documentary’s release
Lopez’s flick documents the making of her album This Is Me… Now and recounts how she and her now-estranged husband almost got married nearly two decades ago but ended up calling off their engagement in 2004. The pair rekindled their romance in 2021 and tied the knot the following year; seen in July 2003
Another illuminating instance in the documentary was when Lopez revealed that Affleck was not ‘comfortable’ being her muse and divulging details about their private relationship in public, fans noted.
‘He loves me, he knows I’m an artist and he’s gonna support me in every way he can because he knows he can’t stop me from making the music that I made and writing the words that I wrote. But that doesn’t mean he’s comfortable being the muse.’
The surge in viewership comes after Lopez filed for divorce earlier this week on the anniversary of their wedding ceremony in Georgia back in August 2022.
In legal documents obtained by DailyMail.com, Lopez also listed their official date of separation as April 26, revealing that the estranged couple continued to act as if they were still together even amid marriage turmoil and rumors of an ‘imminent’ divorce ran rampant for months.
