Jennifer Garner revealed Saturday that she tries to avoid news about herself and her ex-husband.
“We probably would’ve ended up at each other’s throats. I probably still would’ve been drinking,” said Affleck, adding that he felt “trapped” in his marriage.
Garner and Affleck met in 2001 on the set of the film “Pearl Harbor” and began dating publicly in 2004.“I just try to forget that I’m out there in any way, and the same with anyone I love,” said Garner. “I don’t need to see anyone in my family made into a meme. Although I’m sure he’s quite meme-worthy, yes!”“Part of why I started drinking was because I was trapped,” he said.
“I was like, ‘I can’t leave because of my kids, but I’m not happy, what do I do?’ 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,” continued Affleck. “Ultimately, we tried, we tried, we tried because we had kids, but both of us felt like we didn’t want this to be the model that our kids see of marriage.
“We did it amicably. We did our best. Did we have moments of tension? Did we have disagreements over custody? Was stuff difficult for us? Did we get angry? Yes, but fundamentally it was always underpinned with a respect,” said Affleck. “I knew she was a good mom. I always hoped she knew I was a good dad. I knew I was.”“It’s disgusting,” one source close to both Garner and Affleck said.
“I had a really painful experience where I did an interview where I was really vulnerable, and the entire pickup was something that was not only not right, it was actually the opposite of what I meant,” Affleckafter the pair called it quits 21 years ago.
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