The return of Bennifer: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, from box office bombs to love, and back again?

They may have split in 2004, but superstar couple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck — or Bennifer as we called them — remained very much in each other’s lives in the ensuing years.

“They are friends. They have always been friends, and they have seen each other through the years,” a source told People after the two were spotted together recently, sparking reconciliation rumors.

The former fiances were hanging out together around Big Sky, Montana, reports said Monday. “[Jennifer] spent several days with Ben out of town,” a source told People magazine. “They have a strong connection. It’s all been quick and intense, but Jennifer is happy.”

The star-powered duo was spotted driving together in Big Sky before they returned to Los Angeles on Saturday on a private jet, the sources said.

They met back in 2002 on the set of “Gigli,” playing gangsters who fall in love while attempting to kidnap a powerful federal prosecutor’s psychologically challenged younger brother. Critics, claiming a lack of chemistry between Affleck and Lopez, panned the pic.

But real life would refute that, as the pair began dating.

Lopez, now 51, and Affleck, 48, went public not long after her 2003 divorce from Cris Judd, her second husband. They got engaged later that year, a proposal sealed with a 6.1-carat, pink solitaire diamond Affleck had chosen himself, custom-made by celebrity jeweler Harry Winston.

The diamond was a game-changer, setting off a craze for colored diamonds, Town and Country Magazine reported at the time.

The media dubbed them “Bennifer,” one of the first hybrid celebrity-couple names ever coined.

The two split briefly after postponing their wedding due in part to the preponderance of paparazzi, and then broke up permanently not long after.

The A-list pair famously decoupled “in front of the entire world,” as Lopez put it in a later interview with Vanity Fair. They called off their engagement days before they were due to tie the knot, and two months before the second film they co-starred in, “Jersey Girl,” hit theaters, according to People at the time.

But there “was genuine love there,” as Lopez would tell People later, and the two always had complimentary things to say about each other in the 17 years since their romance ended.

It took her a full two years to get over Affleck, who she said held a special place in her heart, she confessed to Vanity Fair in 2017.

“It was a two-year thing for me until I picked myself up again,” she said.

Jennifer Lopez exchanged rings with Marc Anthony in a June 2004 wedding that reportedly surprised even her close-knit family. Lopez split from former fiance Ben Affleck just months before.

She then married singer Anthony and they had twins, now age 13, but not before returning the $2.5 million diamond to Affleck, as ABC News reported at the time.

Affleck would go on to marry actress actress Jennifer Garner, a union that lasted 10 years before the couple separated in 2015, finalizing their divorce in 2018.

Lopez, meanwhile, divorced Anthony and met Alex Rodriguez, the now-retired baseball player. They had been engaged since 2019 but called off their relationship last month.

Affleck has always spoken highly of his former flame, opening up especially in the past year about the “vicious s—” rife with racist and sexist comments, that had swirled when they were together.

He also praised her work ethic and talent, calling himself “humbled” to watch her in action.

On Saturday, Lopez and Affleck appeared in the previously taped “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World” event at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Lopez performing and Affleck making an announcement onstage alongside late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Is this the return of Bennifer? One can only hope.

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