Jennifer Lopez / Credit: WireImage
Jennifer Lopez has admitted she felt like her heart had been "torn" out of her chest when she split from Ben Affleck.
The singer speaks out her new autobiography 'True Love' about the devastation she experienced following the break-up, whom she split from in 2004 just days before they were wed.
"It felt like my heart had been torn out of my chest." she explained.
Explaining her feelings further at a talk about her memoir in New York on November 6, she explained: "I had breakups and things but I'd never felt heartbroken until we called off that wedding. It was devastating to me, maybe because it was so public.
"I really felt like I had found somebody great and he had found somebody great and we thought we could make it work."
Following the split, Jennifer went on to marry Marc Anthony after just months but the two decided to divorce earlier this year.
Now that he's gone on to become engaged to a new woman - 26-year-old model Shannon De Lima - Jennifer insists she's "happy for him".
And talking about her own love life she said: "You have to heal on your own and that's what I've been learning. You should be happy all by yourself. For so long we're taught there's a fairy tale that's supposed to happen but that's not how it goes... Someone great will come along but I'll be whole first."
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