Jennifer Lopez is opening up about how her family got through the “tough year” characterized, in no small part, by her divorce from Ben Affleck, which was finalized in January.

She divorced Ben Affleck and had to cancel her This is Me… Now tour. The “Waiting For Tonight” singer got honest with El País about how she’s spent the last year: reading a lot of books and doing a lot of self-introspection.

"I'm happier that I'm a step further along than I was a year ago," the singer says Jennifer Lopez had a tough year — and no one saw that more clearly than her two kids. The singer, 55, spoke with Spanish newspaper El País ahead of her world tour and shared that when she was going through a difficult time last year,