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After an interview on Sirius / XM’s The Howard Stern Show that made headlines for all the wrong reasons, Ben Affleck tried to set the record straight on Wednesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!
During the conversation with Stern, Affleck spoke at length about his career, his failed marriage to Jennifer Garner, and his battle with alcoholism, in which he said he “would probably still have been drinking” if he was still with Garner. The couple married from 2005 to 2018.
“I started drinking in part because I was trapped,” the 49-year-old actor told Stern. “I was like, ‘I can’t leave because of my kids, but I’m not happy, what am I doing? And what I did was [I] drank a bottle of scotch and fell asleep on the couch, which turned out not to be the solution.
The comments led fans to drag Affleck online, with some using the hashtag #TeamGarner.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live! On Wednesday night Affleck responded by saying of Garner, “I had gone on and said how much we respect and care about each other and care about our kids and put them first,” but the title “just makes me the worst, most callous, stupid horrible guy.
The Tender Bar star also commented, “I would never want my kids to think that I will ever speak badly about their mother.” Affleck shares daughters Violet, 16, and Seraphina, 12, and son Samuel, 9, with the former Alias star.
Affleck insisted the headline-grabbing drinking commentary was taken out of context and is “the exact opposite of who I am.”
He insisted, “It hurts, man!”
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