Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s close friend Jason Mewes have spoken out about the divorce rumors surrounding the couple. The 49-year-old “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” star was asked about the duo’s relationship and whether he thought they would go their separate ways soon. “I would be shocked,” Mewes told TMZ on Wednesday.

Mewes’ friendship with the Oscar winner spanned more than two decades as they co-starred in “Dogma” and “Chasing Amy” as well as other classic comedies. “I’m having fun,” Mewes told the outlet when asked about the couple’s wedding. “When you’re there watching their interaction, the singing — her singing to him — it seems like after 20 years, they and everything that’s going on is so sincere and real.”

Mewes expressed doubts over reports that the couple is living separately despite not keeping in touch with Affleck and the “On The Floor” hitmaker, 54, since they got married. “Maybe he’s busy working and she’s also working and it’s too much for the kids,” he shared. “I didn’t say it was like that – I don’t know.” The actor’s comments came just hours after Lopez rebuffed a reporter who asked her to address divorce rumors during a discussion in Mexico City about her upcoming film “Atlas.” “You know better than that,” she responded with a brief smile, according to a video posted to Instagram by the account El Gordo y la Flaca.

Her co-star Simu Liu then spoke up to stop the reporter. The day before, the mother of two again attended the film’s second premiere solo – while the “Argo” actor was photographed leaving hot spot Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California, later that night. there.

Just hours before the premiere of “Atlas,” a source exclusively told Page Six that Affleck had “come to his senses” about the couple’s marriage. “If there was a way to get a divorce on grounds of temporary insanity, he would do it,” an insider told Us on Monday. “He felt as if the last two years had been just a fever dream, and now he had come to his senses and understood that there was no way this was going to work.”

Affleck’s apparent absence from the red carpet comes exactly two weeks after the pair first sparked split rumors when Lopez appeared at the 2024 Met Gala without him – despite being one of the co-hosts president of the event. The Oscar winner is said to have started staying at a house in LA’s Brentwood neighborhood – a block from his and Lopez’s $60 million Beverly Hills mansion – two weeks ago.