The childhood friends hit a bump in their friendship when Bennifer first met.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have been friends for the last four decades.

Both actors first met as children in the early 1980s due to them living two blocks away from each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As well as being good friends, Damon and Affleck are also collaborators and have worked on a few films together, including ‘Good Will Hunting,’ and their most recent project, the 2023 sports film, ‘Air.’

However, there was a small period when Damon and Affleck were allegedly not speaking to one another, and it apparently had to do with Affleck’s burgeoning relationship with Jennifer Lopez the first time around.

Matt Damon stopped speaking to Ben Affleck for months when he began dating Jennifer Lopez in 2002.

Before Affleck and Lopez rekindled their relationship in 2021, the two had first begun dating in 2002 and were engaged, before eventually breaking up. During the beginning of Affleck and Lopez’s relationship, though, Damon voiced concerns about their relationship with Affleck.

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According to OK Magazine, a source revealed that Damon was worried about how the publicity from Affleck’s relationship with Lopez was affecting his career.

“All the attention went to his head, and when Matt voiced his concerns about what it may do to Ben’s career, they had a falling out,” the source claimed. “They didn’t speak for months, but Ben finally came to his senses and realized Matt was only looking out for him.”

It seems Damon also publicly admitted how he felt about Lopez’s impact on Affleck’s career during a 2015 GQ interview, and revealed that it was “painful” for him to watch Affleck suffer. “Ten years ago, the public image of [Affleck] could not have been farther apart from who he actually is,” Damon told the publication.