‘We did our best’: Ben Affleck says his marriage went South for so many ordinary reasons

Human-truth-serum Howard Stern pulled out more facts, this time from Ben Affleck, who participated in Stern’s SiriusXM program on a press tour for Bidding bar as Last match and potentially Not Deep water. The actor candidly talks about his marriage and addiction, which made his marriage Jennifer Garner like a story with familiar lines. At the end of the day, their divorce was something of a partiality in his words.

“Everything you read [about the divorce] is a bull – t. The truth is we took our time, we made our decision. We’re growing apart,” he said, possibly referring to tabloid rumors that he was romantically involved with their nanny, which his camp has denied ever since. “We had a bad marriage. This happens. She’s someone I love and respect, but I shouldn’t marry anyone else. ” Good marriage turns bad, same old story. “In the end, we tried, we tried, we tried because we had kids, but we both felt it. we don’t want this to be the model our kids see of marriage,” he said, staying together for the kids’ turn to say goodbye, another story as old as ever.

“We did it amicably. We did the best we could. Do we have stressful times? Do we disagree about child custody? Are things difficult for us? Were we angry? Yes, but it’s always been underpinned by a sense of respect, basically,” he said, adding, “I know she’s a good mom. I always hope she knows I’m a good father. I know I was. “

Affleck also deals with addiction (he went to rehab in 2018, three years after they announced their divorce). He said, “We probably ended up together. I’ll probably still drink,” and “Part of the reason why I started drinking is because I got stuck. “

“The cure for addiction is suffering, you’ve had enough, something inside of you will go away,” I’m done. “He say. “I’m lucky I got to that point before I lost the most important things. It’s not my career or money – it’s my relationship with my kids, and when I felt that impact on them, I realized it. ”

Affleck added, “It was the worst day of my life. I have modified…. But since that day, I swear to God, I haven’t had a single drink.”

Garner said Vanity Fair in 2016, after announcing their divorce in 2015, “I’m a pretty hard worker. It was one of the pains in my life when what I believed in so strongly, I completely failed twice. You must have two people to dance a marriage. My heart is a little softer right now and it’s always easier to focus on the ways you feel hurt, but I know that, with time and some perspective, I’ll come to understand more clearly about I let the system down. , because there’s no way for me to get started on this. “

“I definitely spent a lot of time in my marriage that I will now have to myself,” she said. “I don’t know how I’m going to use it.” And about a large tattoo of an Affleck phoenix on her back after the breakup, she said, “You know what we would say in my hometown about that? ‘Bless him heart.‘A phoenix rose from the ashes. Am I the ash in this scenario? I go umbrage. I refuse to become ashes.”

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