Jennifer Lopez is struggling with the divorce from Ben Affleck and setbacks in her career

“J.Lo is smart enough to know that playing things up for the cameras only helps the movie, so that’s her main reason for this flirt-fest with Brett,” the source said. “But more than that, it boosts her ego and so it has that extra bonus.”

After Affleck’s dashing no-makeup selfie in 2024, “it’s safer for her to have a fake romance at this point than actually putting herself out into the world with a partner,” the source admitted. “That’s another element that drives her to it, along with the hype.”

With three failed marriages, to Ojani Noa, Cris Judd and Marc Anthony, under her belt, Lopez thought she had found her “happily ever after” in Affleck, the source says, but that wasn’t the case. “It still hurts J.Lo deeply that she and Ben couldn’t make things work,” the source admitted.

“She really loved him, and as cliché as it may sound, in her eyes, no other man has ever come close.” It doesn’t help that “he dumped her” or that “he seems so much happier without her,” the source noted, calling it “the ultimate blow” to Lopez’s ego.