Ben Affleck has certainly had a lot of time in the news recently. His pending divorce from Jennifer Lopez is something that captured the attention of many.
This isn’t surprising, because Ben Affleck’s dating life has been a matter of conversation among fans for quite some time. Even the first time he was married to Jennifer Garner, it seemed as if people couldn’t get enough information.
He had worked with Jennifer Gardner on two movies, Daredevil and Pearl Harbor. They also appeared in the Dinner for Five series together and it seemed as if some chemistry existed.
There was a problem, however, with them getting together. Jennifer Garner was married to Scott Foley at the time but they would eventually get divorced. It was amicable.
Despite the fact that they were available, it did take some time for them to get together. Eventually, they got married in 2005 but it wasn’t as happy of a marriage as they had hoped.
They did have three children together and seem to be doing okay but crack showed up in the relationship and they eventually said goodbye to each other.
In 2015, Ben said that Jennifer was the most important person to him when he was interviewed by Playboy. He said: “Getting to know her, falling in love with her and being connected with her gave me a foundation to reach out and say, ‘OK, I’m going to do Hollywoodland. I’m going to direct Gone Baby Gone. Those were the steps forward I needed to put positive stuff on the board.” According to Ben, Jennifer gave him a stable home life while he was able to reach his career goals.
It wasn’t long after that that he took Christine Ouzounian, the nanny on a trip to Las Vegas. His children didn’t go, and then it was shown that he was in the process of divorcing Jennifer.
Jennifer spoke about it on Vanity Fair, saying: “We had been separated for months before I ever heard about the nanny. She had nothing to do with our decision to divorce. She was not a part of the equation. Bad judgment? Yes. It’s not great for your kids for [a nanny] to disappear from their lives.”
They were eventually divorced, as Ben began to have additional problems with drinking. Many of the issues were due to the fact that he was drinking when fighting with Jennifer, and it was a coping mechanism that he used.
In the end, he admitted that the biggest regret of his life was this divorce. He said: “Shame is really toxic. There is no positive byproduct of shame. It’s just stewing in a toxic, hideous feeling of low self-worth and self-loathing.”
Things change, and they certainly have changed for Ben Affleck. We will be looking forward to seeing what direction this goes in now that things are changing again.