Jennifer Garner has made a rare comment about her divorce from Ben Affleck, nearly 10 years on from their split.
The Hollywood hotshots married back in 2005 after first meeting on the set of Pearl Harbor, and they went on to have three children together before splitting up in 2015.
Their divorce was finalised three years later and both have had little to say to the press about their relationship in the years since, although Garner did make a rather raunchy admission about the size of her ex-husband's manhood.
Affleck would go on to marry Jennifer Lopez in 2022 but endured another drawn-out divorce after finalising things with the singer in early 2025, later admitting that he'd found things hard in the world of dating since becoming a single man.
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Speaking while promoting his 2025 film The Accountant 2, and ostensibly talking about his character, he told Page Six: “It’s not easy for anyone figuring out relationships, particularly at the very early part, where you’re trying to gauge, ‘What does this signal mean? Is this person looking at me? Do they like me? Am I going to humiliate myself if I go over there?'"
Perhaps if he didn't limit himself to only marrying women called Jennifer, he would have more luck.
But there's no doubting Affleck's abilities as a father, as he continues to co-parent with Garner for their three kids Violet, Fin and Samuel.
Garner has now given an update on how the divorce affected her.
The 13 Going on 30 star admitted that she couldn't handle certain aspects of the break-up and that it was 'hard' not just for her but her three children when they called it quits back in 2015.
“You have to be smart about what you can and can’t handle, and I could not handle what was out there. But what was out there,” Garner told Marie Claire, gesturing into the distance, “was not what was hard. The fact of it is what was hard.
"The actual breaking up of a family is what was hard. Losing a true partnership and friendship is what was hard.”
But she found solace in her community of people and now, ahead of her upcoming second season of her Apple TV+ drama The Last Thing He Told Me, she's clearly more comfortable speaking about her second marriage.
She added: “I make a big, concerted effort to see my people as much as I can, because that’s what matters. That’s where your resilience is: it’s in your relationships and in the people who carry you through.
"I think it’s important for women to know, when they think, 'Oh, I’ll never see that, I’ll never have that feeling, I’ll never be friends with this person again'.
"Time is the opportunity to heal. Time is the opportunity to forgive, to move on and to find a new way to be friends."
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James Moorhouse