Hollywood actor, Ben Affleck has confessed that his divorce was the biggest mistake of his life, as he opened up about his painful divorce and the pain he caused his children in a revealing interview with Diane Sawyer.
Ben Affleck appeared on “Good Morning America” on Thursday to promote his newest movie, “The Way Back” where he stars as a basketball coach that shares some of the same problems that he’s dealt with in his personal life. The actor spoke very candidly about his divorce from Jennifer Garner and said he never expected it to happen.
“I never thought I was gonna get divorced, I didn’t want to get divorced. I didn’t want to be a divorced person, I really didn’t want to be a split family with my children and it upset me because it meant that I wasn’t who I thought I was,” Affleck told Sawyer
Ben who in the last two or three years has checked himself into a rehabilitation centre expressed that he was worried that his drinking would affect his children.
“I really don’t want my children to pay for my sins,” he admitted. “Or to be afraid for me which is one of the hard parts of being the child of an alcoholic.”
Ben Affleck said that he does not want to pop up on his kids’ “news feed” like he did when TMZ posted a video of the star stumbling out of a swanky Hollywood party clearly intoxicated. The star admitted to seeing a portion of the short clip but said he did not watch all of it
“I know what it looks like to be drunk,” he said. “I don’t need to watch any more of it.”
In an in-depth expose the actor did with the New York Times, he admitted that his split from the mother of his children was the thing that keeps him up at night and that his drinking problem worsed when his marriage troubles started
“I drank relatively normally for a long time. What happened was that I started drinking more and more when my marriage was falling apart. This was 2015, 2016. My drinking, of course, created more marital problems,” he told the NY Times.
“The biggest regret of my life is this divorce,” Ben continued. “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.”
While facing his demons head-on, Ben said that focusing on the negative parts doesn’t do very much good.