Blames Jennifer Garner, the woman who drove him to rehab, for his drinking.
You can't tell by just reading the quotes, but one of those magazine shows played clips of this interview and he sounded drunk as shit.
Says the twerp who posts comments taken out of context by a sensationalistic media.
He gave a two hour interview, did you listen to it in its entirety or just see a blurb on Facebook condemning Affleck?
Speaking of twerps...
“I’d probably still be drinking,” he told Stern. “Part of why I started drinking alcohol was because I was trapped. I was like, I can’t leave because of my kids, but I’m not happy. What do I do?
Ben Affleck "quit" drinking for the first time in 1997 btw. 8 years before he married Garner.
"After starring in Good Will Hunting with his longtime friend Matt Damon, Affleck chose to stop drinking in 1997. “I just wanted to stop. I started regretting some things I did when I was drunk,
"It wasn’t until 2001 that the Pearl Harbor actor sought treatment for his alcoholism. He has since been to rehab multiple times, including a stay in 2017 and 2018."
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/everything-ben-affleck-has-said-about-his-sobriety/party-life/
Who stands up for this guy?
“I’d still be drinking if we were still married, but it would be my own fault. Jennifer was a great person. We just weren’t compatible.“
“Everything you read [in the news about the divorce] was bulls–t. The truth was we took our time, we made our decision … We grew apart,” he said. “We had a marriage that didn’t work. This happens. She’s somebody I love and respect, but to whom I shouldn’t be married any longer.”
Don’t want to add anymore context to the quotes now would we? Goes against you’re gullibility for falling for clickbait bullshit.
"“I’d still be drinking if we were still married, but it would be my own fault. Jennifer was a great person. We just weren’t compatible.“
You made this quote up. He did not say this in the Stern interview.
Affleck has all the acting gravitas of a marshmallow.
If he's just as inert as a human, I am not surprised.
He's pure shit.
shareCan't stand the guy, but those quotes are taken out of a larger conversation, and don't really represent what he said.
shareHe literally said his drinking problems were tied to his marriage to her and he's been an alcoholic since at least 1997:
“I’d probably still be drinking,” he told Stern. “Part of why I started drinking alcohol was because I was trapped. I was like, I can’t leave because of my kids, but I’m not happy. What do I do?
Ben Affleck "quit" drinking for the first time in 1997 btw. 8 years before he married Garner.
"After starring in Good Will Hunting with his longtime friend Matt Damon, Affleck chose to stop drinking in 1997. “I just wanted to stop. I started regretting some things I did when I was drunk,
"It wasn’t until 2001 that the Pearl Harbor actor sought treatment for his alcoholism. He has since been to rehab multiple times, including a stay in 2017 and 2018."
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/everything-ben-affleck-has-said-about-his-sobriety/party-life/
Without listening to the whole interview, I feel fairly confident that that quote is out of context. There's a part in between those quotations that the article opts not to quote, and is potentially editorializing instead.
It's possible your interpretation is accurate, but his quoted lines there don't necessitate that.
I go back into my past and attribute my drinking problems to specific situations and triggers. But it doesn't mean I'm not claiming responsibility or that I'm blaming the people that led to some of those situations. And his attributing his drinking in part his living situation then, isn't absolving himself of having drinking problems before that, or after that.
Not saying he's a good person or that he hasn't been a shitbag. I think he's even admitted as much.
Yes, you keep quoting the same lines over and over and over again. It was a 2 hour interview. Just because he says that he would still be drinking if he was still married doesn't mean that he blames Jennifer. It just means that he was unhappy in the situation.
shareExactly. Affleck may well be a jerk I don't know, I've never even seen one of his films. But nowhere does he say " Jennifer drove me to drink " but that is the way the media presented his words. And a bunch of Pavlov dog kneejerk response morons want to lynch the guy. It's disgusting.
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The A list mostly movie actor/sometime director must have forgotten about the time when he wasn't married and passed out drunk on top of a former Playmate and had to be carried to an Uber by two bouncers. Oh, or the time when he wasn't married and passed out drunk at a card table. You can't forget the time when he wasn't married and had sex and then passed out on top of the woman he just had sex with who was handcuffed to the bed and couldn't move until our actor woke up several hours later and then yelled at her. Ben Affleck/Jennifer Garner (Ben Affleck Hit Back At Accusations That He "Blamed" Jennifer Garner For His Alcoholism And Said That He Was Wrongly Made Out To Be An "Awful Guy")
Jennifer Garner certainly doesn't deserve Ben blaming her for his drinking. He felt trapped? Boo-hoo. She went above and beyond for him. Any respect I had for him went out the window that interview.
shareHe's a douchebag but as an actor, I can't help but like the sumbitch.
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