“Batman” star Ben Affleck shared his respect for Jennifer Lopez and praised ex-wife Jennifer Garner in a new interview. The actor finalized his divorce from Lopez in January.
Ben Affleck set the record straight on the “root causes” of his divorce from Jennifer Lopez.
Affleck and Lopez finalized their divorce in January, roughly two years after getting married at the actor’s Georgia estate. The “Argo” star noted that while people have speculated about the issues that led to his divorce from JLo, the real reason is much more ordinary than anyone might believe. Affleck and Lopez’s different approaches to fame have been mentioned as the cause of their split after the premiere of Lopez’ documentary, “The Greatest Love Story Never Told”, but the “Air” director emphasized it “wasn’t the cause of some major fracture.”
“Part of it was, ‘OK, if I’m going to participate in this, I want to try to do it in an honest way and in a way that’s interesting.’ Because I thought it was an interesting examination”, Affleck explained in a cover story for GQ magazine. “There are a lot of people who I think have handled celebrity more adeptly and more adroitly than I have, Jennifer among them.
“My temperament is to be a little bit more reserved and private than hers. As happens in relationships, you don’t always have the same attitude towards these things. And so I thought, ‘Oh, this is interesting, because how do you reconcile that?
“I love and support this person. I believe in them. They’re great. I want people to see that”, he continued. “And I think the thing that I said in that documentary or the piece that they used was where I said, ‘You don’t marry a ship captain and then say, ‘Well, I don’t like going out in the water.
