Jennifer Lopez—yes, the queen of “Let’s Get Loud” and “On the Floor”—has been through it lately. After calling it quits with Ben Affleck in early 2025 and canceling her “This Is Me” tour in 2024 due to reportedly low ticket sales, JLo is once again trending. Why? Because the icon herself just opened up about a long-standing addiction to love… and, well, maybe the delicioso too.
Wait, What Did Jennifer Lopez Say About Being Addicted to Sex?
Let’s rewind. In 2024, Jennifer Lopez dropped her musical film This Is Me… Now: A Love Story, which dives into her relationship with Affleck, showing her most vulnerable side. In it, she revealed she has what she calls an “addiction to love,” though many took it as a bold way of saying she’s also addicted to sex.
And now that her marriage has ended, social media sleuths are connecting the dots—one meme at a time.
According to Chisme No Like hosts Javier Ceriani and Elisa Beristain, this “love addiction” isn’t anything new. They claim JLo has been romantically involved with multiple Cuban and Puerto Rican artists—and that some even signed NDAs to keep things hush-hush about their flings in New York or Miami.
Of course, the internet took that and ran with it. Some users joked that now they finally understand why Affleck bailed, saying “she drained him,” while others defended her openness about sexuality as empowering, especially for women in their 50s.
Jennifer Lopez isn’t alone in this. Celebs like James Franco, Robert Downey Jr., Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, and even Justin Bieber have publicly acknowledged similar struggles in the past. Hollywood has always had a complicated relationship with addiction, especially when it comes to love, intimacy, and validation.
This article was originally written in Spanish by Carla Martell in Cultura Colectiva.
