Selling Sunset’s Emma Hernan Explains Ben Affleck’s Raya Messages: It Was ‘The Smallest, Innocent Little Thing’ — and It Happened in 2019
usmagazine.comSetting the record straight. Emma Hernan is speaking out about messaging with Ben Affleck on Raya after the actor denied being on the celebrity dating app for “several years.”“It was not recent,” the real estate agent, 30, clarified to E!
News’ Daily Pop on Monday, April 25. “This was 2019. Literally, the smallest, innocent little thing. … [It] blew up out of proportion.”The Netflix star’s rep corroborated the timeline to Us Weekly, noting, “Ben and Emma’s Raya interaction occurred in 2019.
They matched, they exchanged messages, they never met.”Hernan further told E!, “I think on the show, you didn’t see the timeframe and it just seemed worse.
And it was literally the smallest thing. End of story. We’re shutting that one down now.”On a recent episode of Selling Sunset, the Netflix star made headlines when she discussed the potential love connection with the Deep Water actor, 49, after the two allegedly matched on Raya “right before” Affleck rekindled his romance with Jennifer Lopez.The Argo director’s “opening pickup line” had to do with the fact that the two were both from New England, as they each hail from Massachusetts, Hernan told costar Chrishell Stause in the fifth episode of season 5. “We have the Boston connection,” she explained. “It was very sweet.”Affleck even got flirty in the alleged messages. “He may or may not have been texting me,” the reality star claimed. “He may or may not have asked to grab … coffee a few times.”On Friday, April 22, the Oscar winner denied any recent activity on the app.“Raya has confirmed that he has not been an active member for several years,” a rep for the Oscar winner told People in a statement.In the episode, Stause, 40, told Hernan that she “could’ve foiled Bennifer,” joking
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