The man sitting opposite me is recounting an extraordinary scene: after a furious row, his soon-to-be-ex-wife Jennifer Lopez is stewing in the bedroom at their marital home in California.
Minutes later, she calls him – their mansion is so large he wouldn’t hear her if she shouted – imploring him to come upstairs.
What followed, he says, was one of the most passionate encounters in their marriage.
‘It was so great, but at the same time so sad because we kind of knew it was the end of the road.’
Ojani Noa married Jennifer Lopez in 1997 and is the only one of her four spouses to have known and loved her before she became a global icon
One could well imagine similar intense scenes as Jennifer Lopez’s marriage to actor Ben Affleck collapsed.
She filed for divorce last month, two years after walking down the aisle in a highly-publicised second run at love, having been engaged for two years between 2002-2004.
But the man talking to me is not her most recent husband…