Last year, Ben Affleck surprised by declaring that if he drank it was because he felt trapped in his marriage to actress Jennifer Garner, so he chose to drink a bottle of whiskey to fall asleep on the couch. Although later the actor of League of Justice He assured that his words were taken out of context.
It was during his participation in The Howard Stern Showin 2021, that the director of Gone Baby Gone spoke about his problems with alcohol during the time he was married to the actress If I had 30. Now we know that she surely didn’t mean it badly, but his words sounded very harsh.
He would probably still be drinking. It’s part of why I started drinking…because I was stuck. I was like: ‘I can’t, I’m not leaving for my kids, but I’m not happy. What I do?’ What I did was drink a bottle of ‘whisky’ and fall asleep on the sofa, which turned out not to be the solution.
Although those of us who know his story know that his drinking problems began more than 20 years ago, long before he married his ex-wife Jennifer Garner, since in 2001, he tried to rehabilitate himself for the first time, with the help of Charlie Sheen. , who took him to a clinic in Malibu, California, where he completed a 30-day treatment.
The second time Ben tried rehabilitation was in 2017. His last admission to overcome his alcoholism problem was in 2018, being Garner who led him to enter a rehabilitation center.
The truth was that we took our time, we made the decision… We distanced ourselves. We had a marriage that didn’t work out, this happens with someone I love and respect, but shouldn’t be married to anymore. In the end, we tried. We tried, we tried because we had children. We both felt that we did not want this to be the model of marriage that our children see.
After the unfortunate statements, Affleck made an appearance on the show Jimmy Kimmel Live!where he clarified that his words were perceived in the wrong way, since he did not realize the situation until he saw them published everywhere.
They said that I had blamed my ex-wife for my alcoholism and that I was trapped. And this made me look like the worst, most insensitive, stupid, horrible guy. And they had literally taken part of the conversation that I had been having for two hours and made it sound like I was saying the exact opposite of what I said. I was talking about how much we respect each other and care about each other, and care about our kids and put them first.
And we review ours. Let me be clear: that is not true. I do not believe that. It’s the exact opposite of who I am, what I believe, and I would never want my children to think that I would ever say a bad word about their mother, because it really upsets me. That hurts my feelings.