Ben Affleck and Son Samuel, 10, Cheer for Jennifer Lopez at 2022 iHeartRadio Music Awards
23.03.2022 - 18:23
/ usmagazine.com
All in the family! Ben Affleck and his son were Jennifer Lopez‘s biggest fans at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Awards.
The Deep Water star, 49, and Samuel, 10, were all smiles at the ceremony in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 22, as Lopez, 52, accepted the annual Icon Award. Following a glowing introduction from LL Cool J, the Marry Me actress was overcome with emotion while she thanked fans for their support. Her 14-year-old daughter, Emme, also cheered her on.
“I appreciate this so much, so very, very much,” she gushed on the stage at the Shrine Auditorium. “I wish I could tell you that awards were the most important to me, but that’s not true. And don’t think that I don’t appreciate the shiny, sparkly things, because I do! I cannot lie, everybody knows that I do. But this isn’t why I do this. It’s not what matters most to me. I really do it for you guys.”
Affleck watched proudly from the crowd as the Grammy nominee continued her speech. “Because of you, I get to do what I love the most in life and that is the most wonderful blessing,” she told fans. “That’s a gift that you give me and I just want to say thank you for that. Thank you to everyone who comes to a show, streams a song, sees a movie, follows me. You guys are the ones who give me the opportunity every day to live a life I couldn’t even imagine would come true when I was a little girl growing up in the Bronx.”
Lopez noted that she’d “always be grateful to each and every one” of her supporters who helped her achieve her dreams. “I will never forget it, and I will never, ever take it for granted. So I want to say thank you to every one of you for believing in me when other people didn’t, even when I didn’t. Thank you for teaching me who I really am.”
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