After relationship within the early 2000s and getting engaged, the pair went their separate methods in 2004.
It took virtually twenty years, however Jennifer and Ben discovered their means again to one another and tied the knot earlier this 12 months.
Trying again on their first break up, Jennifer admits it was one of the painful occasions of her life and affected her profession for the subsequent 18 years.
“It was so painful after we broke up,” she mentioned throughout a dialog with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1.
She continued, “As soon as we known as off that wedding ceremony 20 years in the past, it was the most important heartbreak of my life, and I actually felt like I used to be going to die.”
Jennifer defined that following the break up, she felt as if she could not make music the way in which she used to, and it set her on a “spiral” for years.
“So I didn’t make music in that means that I did in 2002 till now … it set me on a spiral for the subsequent 18 years the place I simply couldn’t get it proper,” Jennifer shared.
She added, “However now, 20 years later, it does have a contented ending. It has essentially the most would-never-happen-in-Hollywood ending.”
After rekindling her romance with Ben, she says, she “felt so impressed and so overtaken with emotion that [the music] was simply pouring out of me.”
As for her new album, This Is Me…Now, Jennifer says it can cowl her journey to discovering love once more — and hopefully encourage others not to surrender.
“I feel what the message of [This Is Me…Now] is — in case you have, like me at occasions, misplaced hope, virtually given up, do not,” Jennifer mentioned.
She added, “Real love does exist, and a few issues do final ceaselessly, and that is actual. I need to put that message out into the world, and that does take a number of vulnerability.”
