Jennifer Lopez describes her new documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told as “scary” to work on alongside her husband Ben Affleck.

Lopez, 54, attended a special screening of the documentary on Monday at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, where she discussed Affleck’s role in the tell-all Amazon Prime movie, in which the singer opens up on her 20-year path to self-love.

Lopez admitted it was “very scary” to expose her life and speak so honestly on camera during a Q&A with producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, adding, “The other scary part was that I was bringing into it my husband, who was kind of the reluctant participant, silent participant, and all.”

“I just asked him during one of the parts of the movie, ‘Is this weird?'” He says, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘You’re nuts.’ I informed him that he was crazy, not me. But I know I’m a crazy person. “I understand that part,” she continued. “But I believe that being vulnerable is essential for artists. Even when playing a character, you must dig down to the true parts of yourself in order to communicate what it is like to be human. That is a scary thing to do.

“I think people would think I’m so used to being in front of a camera and I’m quite comfortable with it, and that is true,” the former “Can’t Get Enough” star said. “I am content with it. But when you’re kind of sharing your… you don’t have a script that you’re reading and playing a character, or you’re not singing a song that you’ve written and is going to be released to the world, but you’re just living your life and really sharing your deepest thoughts, because that’s what you have to explore to tell this story and do what you’re attempting to do. That one scared me.”

Despite labeling Affleck, 51, “the reluctant participant” in the documentary, Lopez acknowledged that it was her husband’s idea to chronicle certain aspects of her life.

“It was not my intention to photograph every single moment of accomplishing this. To be honest, when we started producing the video, it just sort of became more and more odd, and my husband, who had a front row seat to the whole thing, was the one who said, ‘We should be capturing this,’ and he brought on this fantastic team, and that’s kind of how it happened.”

At one point during filming, Affleck asks his wife if she has forgiven him or is angry with him.

“I think I was angry at you for a long time,” she says in the documentary. “But that heartbreak set both of us on the path to figuring ourselves out and becoming better individuals. I suppose I have completely forgiven you. “I think I need to forgive myself for some things.”

The couple got engaged again in April 2022, and married in Las Vegas in July. They were subsequently joined by friends and family for a picture-perfect ceremony in Georgia that August, during which Lopez donned three different Ralph Lauren wedding dresses.