Since the beginning of the 90s, Ben Affleck has managed to earn his own place in the film industry thanks in large part to His early success with ‘The indomitable Will Hunting’ (1997), by Gus van Sant, where he played a secondary role and whose script co -written next to Matt Damon was worthy of the Oscar for the best original script. That was the starting point of an interpretive career that would later add other recognition titles by critics and the public as ‘chasing Amy’ (1997), by Kevin Smith, ‘Armageddon’ (1998), and ‘Pearl Harbor’ (2001), both directed by Michael Bay, films that consolidated AFFleck as one of the most recognizable and requested faces of Hollywood of the moment. At the same time, His interest in management began to take shape With a filmography that has been well received and that includes tapes such as ‘goodbye, goodbye’ (2007), ‘The Town (city of thieves)’ (2010) And especially ‘Argo’ (2012), who received the Oscar for Best Filmwho showed his enormous talent as a filmmaker and who consecrated him as a multifaceted artist.
Affleck’s popularity, however, has gone beyond his work on the big screen. His private life has been under constant media scrutiny, fueled by a constant presence in the sensationalist press. In 2003, the actor was committed to singer and actress Jennifer Lopez, in a relationship that became one of the great focus of the tabloids of the time. However, only four days before the wedding, the couple decided to postpone the ceremony alleging a strong harassment by the paparazzi, and finally both ended their relationship a year later, in 2004. Almost two decades later, in 2021, Affleck and Lopez resumed their sentimental link, which definitely culminated this time in marriage, although for a short time, since they both returned to end their relationship with their relationship with their relationship In 2024. Between one relationship and another, the actor lived the one he has described as the great love of his life: actress Jennifer Garner. Affleck and Garner met during the filming of ‘Pearl Harbor’ and agreed again in ‘Daredevil’ (2003), by Mark Steven Johnson, beginning a relationship that resulted in a marriage that lengthened from his wedding in 2005 until his divorce in 2018, and that resulted in the birth of his three children.
Although Affleck has claimed on multiple occasions that Garner has been the most important person in his life, the relationship could not resist AFFleck’s personal problems, especially marked by their fight against alcoholism. The actor himself sincere about it in an interview granted to ‘The New York’ Times in 2020, where he acknowledged: “My divorce with Jennifer Garner is the greatest regret of my life. Shame is really toxic. It has no positive consequence. He is simply cooking in a toxic and horrible feeling of low self -esteem and self -descence. ”In the same conversation, Affleck reflected on the origin of his difficulties:“ I drank with relative normality for a long time. What happened was that I began to drink more and more when my marriage was falling apart. This was in 2015, 2016. My alcohol consumption, of course, created more marriage problems. It is nothing healthy for me to obsess myself with failures, relapses, and punish me. I have certainly made mistakes. I have certainly done things that I regret. But you have to get up, learn from it, learn even more, try to move on. ”
Far from hiding, Affleck has approached in public the consequences of its addiction and has spoken with transparency of the fault that generates having lost its family. In an interview in ‘Good Morning America’, also in 2020, he confessed: “I didn’t want to divorce, I didn’t want to be a divorced personI really didn’t want to be part of a separate family with my children. He bothered me because it meant that it was not the one who believed to be, and that was very painful and disappointing. For myself. ”In 2016, in the ‘CBS This Morning’ program, the actor had already expressed his affection for Garner with these words:“I am a great admirer of Jennifer. He is a fabulous person. He is a wonderful person. Is an excellent mother. It has incredible talent. He has given such a good example and an example that I follow. It is someone whom I admire and respect, and with whom I maintain an excellent friendship. ”
