Jennifer Garner says she avoids memes about ex-husband Ben Affleck: 'It doesn't make me feel good'
- Jennifer Garner told Stellar Magazine that she avoids seeing ex-husband Ben Affleck in the press.
- "It doesn't make me feel good, even if it's something nice about one of us," the actor said on Saturday.
Jennifer Garner said she avoids press coverage of her and her ex-husband Ben Affleck in an interview published Saturday in the Australian magazine Stellar. The "13 Going on 30" actor said seeing mentions of Affleck "doesn't make me feel good."
"I really work hard not to see either of us in the press," Garner told the outlet. "It doesn't make me feel good, even if it's something nice about one of us."
Garner went on to say that she avoids all mentions of her loved ones in the press.
"I just try to forget that I'm out there in any way, and the same with anyone I love," she continued. "I don't need to see anyone in my family made into a meme. Although I'm sure he's quite meme-worthy, yes!"
In December 2021, Affleck commented on his 10-year marriage to Garner, saying that he would "probably still be drinking" if they had stayed together, in an appearance on "The Howard Stern Show."
Affleck clarified his comment in a March 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "I had a really painful experience where I did an interview where I was really vulnerable, and the entire pickup was something that was not only not right, it was actually the opposite of what I meant," he told the outlet.
"I think I was pretty articulate about that," the actor continued. "It was the New York Post who deliberately mischaracterized it in order to make it clickbait, and everyone else then picked it up, and it didn't matter how many times I said, 'I do not feel this way. I'm telling you, I don't blame my ex-wife for my alcoholism.' So, yeah. It's hard."
Garner and Affleck first met on the set of "Pearl Harbor" in 2000, and began publicly dating in 2004, according to People. In June 2005 the actors tied the knot and announced they were expecting their first child together.
Garner and Affleck announced their split in 2015 and finalized their divorce in 2018, per People. The duo shares three children, Violet, 17, Seraphina, 14, and Samuel, 11.