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Three months after his bombshell divorce was finalised,\u00a0Ben\u00a0Affleck\u2019s kids are giving him an ultimatum\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Even J.Lo couldn’t get him to quit this habit<\/p>\n
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Jennifer Lopez is serving her revenge smoking hot. Not only has the recently divorced star started filming her new movie, Netflix rom-com\u00a0Office Romance\u00a0alongside hunky director Brett Goldstein, she\u2019s also announced that she\u2019ll be touring again this summer.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, her ex\u00a0Ben\u00a0Affleck, 52, whom J.Lo, 55, split from last August before their divorce was finalised in January, was photographed last week looking anxious and stressed as he puffed away on a cigarette while filming his new political thriller,\u00a0Animals.<\/p>\n
And now a source tells us that while his loved ones have been supporting\u00a0Ben following the split, with his three children all attending the premiere of\u00a0The Accountant 2\u00a0last week, behind-the-scenes they are demanding that he takes one big step following his marriage breakdown \u2013 and quits smoking for good.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0insider says, \u2018His children are all old enough now so he can\u2019t really hide it. He doesn\u2019t smoke around them, but they know the smell and they loudly disapprove. Everyone in his life nags him about it, Jennifer Garner, Matt Damon, his mom, he hears it from all sides.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The source continues, \u2018Ben\u00a0has a very addictive personality and when he does something, he tends to go all in. He doesn\u2019t just have one sneaky smoke at the end of the day, this is an all-day long thing.’<\/p>\n
Ben\u00a0has always been refreshingly candid about his battles with addiction, describing his struggle in 2020 as a \u2018vicious cycle\u2019.<\/p>\n
The Oscar winner said at the time, \u2018People with compulsive behaviour, and I am one, have this kind of basic discomfort all the time that they\u2019re trying to make go away.\u00a0You\u2019re trying to make yourself feel better\u00a0with\u00a0eating or drinking or sex or gambling or shopping or whatever. But that ends up making your life worse.<\/p>\n
\u2018Then you do more of it to make that discomfort go away. Then the real pain starts. It becomes a vicious cycle you can\u2019t break. That\u2019s at least what happened to me.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
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‘Ben smokes when he’s stressed’<\/p>\n
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Previously checking into rehab for alcohol addiction in 2001,\u00a0Ben\u00a0later admitted that his relationship with alcohol began to spiral out of control again when his marriage to his ex-wife, actress Jennifer Garner, 53, began to break down in 2015-2016, before the pair announced their split in 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ben\u00a0\u2013 who shares Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 10, with Jennifer \u2013 checked into rehab again following their divorce after 13 years together but revealed last month that he has been sober \u2018for over five years\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But now the source says that despite his loved ones urging him to quit smoking,\u00a0Ben\u00a0is still struggling to give up his last vice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The insider says, \u2018It\u2019s a huge struggle because\u00a0Ben\u00a0smokes when he\u2019s stressed out and he\u2019s been very stressed for a good year now.\u00a0He\u2019s finding life very stressful these days, and smoking is the last vice he has left so it\u2019s especially hard to give up.<\/p>\n
\u2018Unfortunately, his smoking habit has gotten worse since his split with J.Lo because he doesn\u2019t have a wife to answer to. He can smoke morning, noon and night and pretty well not hear about it.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, with recent reports speculating that\u00a0Ben\u00a0is growing closer to Jennifer, with the pair seen hugging on a family day trip paintballing just last month, sources have also revealed that his ex is not a fan of his \u2018disgusting\u2019 habit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Ben’s kids are begging him to give up his addiction<\/p>\n
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In the midst of his divorce from J.Lo in January, an insider, who said Jennifer was \u2018terrified\u2019 that\u00a0Ben\u2019s smoking will \u2018kill\u2019 him, shared, \u2018She always nags him about smelling like smoke and what a gross habit it is. But her biggest concern of all is his health. She\u2019s appalled that he\u2019d treat his body that way.\u2019<\/p>\n
Ben\u00a0was believed to have been leaning on nicotine gum during his two-year marriage to health and fitness fanatic J.Lo. But after moving out of their Beverly Hills mansion last June, our source reveals how the actor is struggling to curb his habit more than ever without her good influence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They continue, \u2018He doesn\u2019t have anyone with him 24\/7, the way he did with J.Lo. As much as they clashed towards the end, for a lot of their marriage she was a really positive influence on him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018She had him eating much healthier. Sure, there was still some fast food, but nothing like there was before. He has stuck with that good habit since they broke up. And he\u2019s actually gotten better about working out, too.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now, with US insiders reporting how he was urged by those close to him to give up smoking as a New Year resolution in 2025, our source says\u00a0Ben\u00a0is now \u2018desperate\u2019 to stop for the sake of his children, most of all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ben\u00a0spoke of his concerns for his children back in 2019, when a picture of him smoking sparked the meme \u2018Sad\u00a0Affleck\u2019 meme.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the time, he said, \u2018\u2026as my kids got older and started seeing the internet themselves, that’s the difficult part. Even the “Sad\u00a0Affleck” meme – that was funny to me. I mean, there’s nobody who hasn’t felt that way at a junket.<\/p>\n
‘But then my kids see it and I think, “Oh, are they going to think their dad is fundamentally sad or they have to worry about me?” That’s really tough.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now our source adds, \u2018Ben\u00a0swears he wants to quit, and he knows he has to do it as it\u2019s not the example he wants to set for his kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018He hates that he\u2019s causing his loved ones to worry about his health and it\u2019s upsetting for everyone in his life to see him trashing his health with disgusting toxic smoke by choice.<\/p>\n
\u2018But they can\u2019t force him to stop. It’s actually very sad and no doubt the guilt weighs on\u00a0Ben.\u2019<\/p>\n
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