{"id":1122631,"date":"2021-12-15T18:14:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1122631"},"modified":"2021-12-15T18:14:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T23:14:17","slug":"ben-affleck-slammed-for-claiming-he-wouldnt-be-sober-if-he-didnt-divorce-jennifer-garner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-affleck-slammed-for-claiming-he-wouldnt-be-sober-if-he-didnt-divorce-jennifer-garner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck Slammed for Claiming He Wouldn&#039;t Be Sober if He Didn&#039;t Divorce Jennifer Garner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fben-affleck-slammed-for-claiming-he-wouldnt-be-sober-if-he-didnt-divorce-jennifer-garner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1122631&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/benaffleckgarner1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Actor Ben Affleck was slammed for telling Howard Stern on Tuesday that he would \u201cstill be drinking\u201d if he didn\u2019t divorce his ex-wife, actress Jennifer Garner, and that he felt \u201ctrapped\u201d in their marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of why I started drinking was because I was trapped,\u201d Affleck said of his marriage with&nbsp;Garner during an appearance on <em>The Howard Stern Show<\/em> on Tuesday, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-10311503\/Fans-react-Ben-Affleck-feeling-trapped-marriage-ex-wife-Jennifer-Garner.html\">report<\/a> by <em>Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018I can\u2019t leave because of my kids, but I\u2019m not happy, what do I do?\u2019 And what I did was [I] drank a bottle of scotch and fell asleep on the couch, which turned out not to be the solution,\u201d the <em>Good Will Hunting<\/em> star added.<\/p>\n<p>Affleck said that he \u201cprobably still would\u2019ve been drinking\u201d if he hadn\u2019t separated from Garner in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The actor\u2019s comments sparked major backlash on social media,&nbsp;where users accused Affleck of trying to \u201cblame\u201d his alcohol issue on Garner, who was pictured driving Affleck to&nbsp;rehab in 2018.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou blame your ex wife for drinking? You were a drunk before you married her!\u201d&nbsp;one Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YeahYea95207175\/status\/1470945066533462019?s=20\">exclaimed<\/a>. \u201cSpeaking poorly about the mother of your children pretty much makes to a terrible father and a total dickhead!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@BenAffleck Sounds like your blaming your ex-wife for your drinking! Scumbag!\u201d another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhondaGc19\/status\/1470946725779185670?s=20\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.4139344262295\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ben Affleck: I would&#8217;ve &#8216;still&#8217; been drinking if I stayed married to Jennifer Garner <br \/>Jennifer Garner: *helps him to rehab 3 full years after they\u2019ve already  separated * <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9StRYJ7tWI\">pic.twitter.com\/9StRYJ7tWI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cecily (@chicagobonjour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chicagobonjour\/status\/1470877981983784960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re a dickhead,\u201d another Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeeDeetle\/status\/1470945072510386180?s=20\">said<\/a>. \u201cEven if that\u2019s the case about unhappiness in you marriage why would you drag your ex through the mud publicly and seemingly blame that situation for your own self destructive choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3536121673004\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was rooting for Ben Affleck but to blame his drinking on his marriage to Jennifer Garner is so silly. She dried his ass out multiple times! After they broke up even. Mmmmm. He best take himself to a meeting or something.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 roxane gay (@rgay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rgay\/status\/1471142457224183812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c@BenAffleck you are an ASSHOLE with NO CLASS. Hope your kids stop speaking to you for good because you truly aren\u2019t good enough for them,\u201d another Twitter user&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mimisnowball\/status\/1470944530966974467?s=20\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201chow was it possible for him to still feel trapped after the divorce since he had Jennifer Garner drive him to rehab?\u201d another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thinkin63201475\/status\/1470942518137470981?s=20\">asked<\/a>. \u201c@BenAffleck is lower than pond scum. Real pathetic excuse of a human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you can\u2019t accept that your drinking problem is because of you, you still have a drinking problem,\u201d another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Boeing74\/status\/1471027495411466240?s=20\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cJennifer Garner didn\u2019t drive Ben Affleck to drink, she did however drive him to rehab probably saving his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Ben Affleck was slammed for telling Howard Stern on Tuesday that he would \u201cstill be drinking\u201d if he didn\u2019t divorce his ex-wife, actress Jennifer Garner, and that he felt &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}