Ben Affleck has a special method to fame after being burned previously.
In actual fact, the Justice League star is reflecting on a troublesome interval in his life when feedback he made about his marriage to Jennifer Garner have been misconstrued.
“I had a extremely painful expertise the place I did an interview the place I used to be actually weak,” Affleck recalled in a March 16 cowl story for The Hollywood Reporter, “and the complete pickup was one thing that was not solely not proper, it was really the other of what I meant.”
Throughout a Dec. 2021 dialog with Howard Stern, Affleck was very open about his alcohol dependancy and the demise of his marriage to Garner, who he shares children Violet, 17, Serafina, 14, and Samuel, 11, with.
And though the Gone Lady actor initially walked away happy with the interview, his phrases shortly made headlines. “The concept I used to be blaming my spouse for my consuming. To be clear, my habits is my accountability fully,” Affleck advised THR. “The purpose that I used to be attempting to make was a tragic one. Anybody who’s been via divorce makes that calculus of, How a lot will we strive?”
Affleck and Garner, each 50, introduced their breakup in 2015 after 10 years of marriage.
