It wasn’t because of the documentary, guys.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]
Words by Georgia Aspinall<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2009263294.jpg” alt=”Bennifer” title_text=”Los Angeles Premiere Of Amazon MGM Studios %22This Is Me…Now: A Love Story%22 – Arrivals” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] \u00a0Ben Affleck is typically a very private person. Across his now 30 years working in Hollywood, he rarely gives interviews about his personal life. Until now, that is. The 52-year-old actor has opened up about his divorce from Jennifer Lopez and co-parenting relationship with his first wife Jennifer Garner in a new interview with GQ.<\/p>\n Affleck married Lopez in 2022, two decades after they got engaged at the height of their fame in the early noughties. The pair called it quits before the big day way back then, but rekindled as adults and quickly headed to the altar. Almost three years into their marriage, the pair filed for divorce, with much ado made about what could\u2019ve possibly happened to tear them apart a second time.<\/p>\n Many pointed the finger at Lopez, citing her documentary about their relationship, called The Greatest Love Story Never Told, as a key reason the marriage fell apart. Some claimed they could see signs of disrepair in the series, that Affleck seemed reluctant to be involved and didn\u2019t share the same love for the limelight Lopez did. It was the same narrative that tabloids spread after their first break up \u2013 misogyny persisting despite 20 years of so-called progress in the way media outlets talk about women.<\/p>\n Now, Affleck has put rumours that the documentary played any part in their marriage breakdown to bed. \u2018I think it\u2019s important to say that wasn\u2019t the cause of some major fracture,\u2019 he explains. \u2018It\u2019s not like you can watch that documentary and go, \u201cOh, now I understand the issues that these two had.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1775780438.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” alt=”Bennifer” title_text=”2023 LACMA Art+Film Gala, Presented By Gucci – Red Carpet” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] Did he want to be a part of it? \u2018I thought it was an interesting examination,\u2019 he says. Affleck went on to explain that Lopez has always handled celebrity more adeptly than he has, and while his temperament is to be \u2018a little bit more reserved and private\u2019, he knew exactly what he was getting into.<\/p>\n \u2018As happens in relationships, you don\u2019t always have the same attitude towards these things,\u2019 Affleck explains. \u2018And so, I thought, Oh, this is interesting because how do you reconcile that? I love and support this person. I believe in them. They\u2019re great. I want people to see that. And I think the thing that I said in that documentary or the piece that they used was where I said, You don\u2019t marry a ship\u2019s captain and then say, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t like going out in the water.\u201d You\u2019ve got to own what you knew going into any relationship.\u2019<\/p>\n Later in the interview, Affleck reiterates that he had no negativity or judgement towards doing the documentary, or Lopez. \u2018I hope I was clear about, when you asked me about Jen and the documentary and I talked about that and my sort of personal life a little bit, which I don\u2019t mind doing as long as my actual feelings and intentions and beliefs are communicated, which I hope I was clear that really this is somebody I have a lot of respect for,\u2019 he says. \u2018And I get wanting to divine or explore the kind of differences in perspective that we have in terms of how a person feels comfortable approaching the line between public and private life. But I really hope that whatever you use doesn\u2019t suggest that I have any negativity or judgment or anything regarding that. I have nothing but respect. I guess there\u2019s a tendency to look at breakups and want to identify root causes or something. But honestly, like I said, the truth is much more quotidian than probably people would believe or would be interesting.\u2019<\/p>\n Alas, there was drama behind the marriage ending. Affleck is clear on that. \u2018There\u2019s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue,\u2019 he says. \u2018The truth is, when you talk to somebody, \u201cHey, what happened?\u201d Well, there is no: \u201cThis is what happened.\u201d It\u2019s just a story about people trying to figure out their lives and relationships in ways that we all sort of normally do. And as you get older, this is true for me, I assume it\u2019s true for most people, there is no \u201cSo-and-so did this\u201d or \u201cThis was the big event.\u201d\u2019<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] In fact, the reason he\u2019s reluctant to talk about his personal life is because \u2018it\u2019s embarrassing\u2019 to be that vulnerable, he says. Ultimately then, the truth is entirely less interesting than fiction reported by the showbiz rumour mill \u2013 as it often is. Lopez, for her part has similarly expressed an aversion to openly talking about her divorce.<\/p>\n \u2018It feels vulnerable,\u2019 she told Interview Magazine piece in October, noting she has no regrets about their romance. \u2018That doesn’t mean it didn’t almost take me out for good. It almost did.\u2019<\/p>\n Well then, that\u2019s that!<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] Photo: Getty<\/b><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The actor has really opened up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-news"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8104,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8095\/revisions\/8104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘There is no scandal.’<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]