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Jennifer Lopez Talks Blending Families with Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck has a antithetic attack to fame aft being burned successful the past.
In fact, the Justice League star is reflecting connected a hard play successful his beingness when comments helium made about his matrimony to Jennifer Garner were misconstrued.
"I had a truly achy acquisition wherever I did an interrogation wherever I was truly vulnerable, and the full pickup was thing that was not lone not right," Affleck recalled successful a caller interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter, published March 16. "It was really the other of what I meant."
During a Dec. 2021 speech with Howard Stern, Affleck was precise unfastened astir his intoxicant addiction and the demise of his matrimony to Garner, who helium shares kids Violet, 17, Serafina, 14, and Samuel, 11, with.
And although the Gone Girl actor initially walked distant satisfied with the interview, his words rapidly made headlines. "The thought that I was blaming my woman for my drinking. To beryllium clear, my behaviour is my work entirely," Affleck told THR. "The constituent that I was trying to marque was a bittersweet one. Anyone who's been done divorcement makes that calculus of, How overmuch bash we try?"
Affleck and Garner, both 50, announced their breakup successful 2015 aft 10 years of marriage.
"We loved each other. We attraction astir each other. We person respect for each other," he noted. "I was trying to say, 'Hey, look, I was drinking excessively much, and the little blessed you become, whether it's your job, your marriage, it's conscionable that arsenic your beingness becomes much difficult, if you're doing things to capable a spread that aren't healthy, you're going to commencement doing much of those things.' I deliberation I was beauteous articulate astir that."
The Argo director added that his comments to Stern were "mischaracterized it successful bid to marque it clickbait, and everyone other past picked it up, and it didn't substance however galore times I said, 'I bash not consciousness this way. I'm telling you, I don't blasted my ex-wife for my alcoholism.' So, yeah. It's hard."
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Since their split, Affleck and Garner person remained agreed arsenic co-parents, though they've moved connected romantically. While the Alias alum has been successful a narration with boyfriend John Miller for respective years, Affleck reunited with ex Jennifer Lopez and the duo tied the knot past year. (Twice.)
The superstar singer is adjacent giving him proposal connected his narration with the media. "So [Jennifer Lopez] tells maine today, 'Relax, beryllium yourself. Have fun. You're really a amusive feline who is existent and genuine and you conscionable look truthful serious,'" Affleck said. "Do I look serious? But arsenic successful galore things, she's truly right. And she loves me. She's looking retired for me. She's trying to assistance me. So it's like, possibly I ought to f--king perceive to her."
Another happening Lopez is an adept at? Social media. "My wife's a genius astatine that," helium told THR. "I don't cognize if there's anybody who understands Instagram amended than her."
