Some were surprised when Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner announced their divorce last week. But for those who know the couple, there was no such surprise. As a friend of the marriage assures People magazine, their tensions were very visible and the separation "inevitable". Affleck, 42, and Garner, 43, announced their separation a day after celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary with a press release asking for "understanding and respect." “After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce. We will move forward with mutual love and friendship and a commitment to care for our children and ask for respect for their privacy during this difficult period. This is our only comment on an intimate and family topic. Thank you for your understanding, ”said the statement released in People.
The reasons abounded for years at least in the Hollywood rumor mill where Affleck could never get rid of his fame as a womanizer, gambler and drinker. He only managed to silence her thanks to an apparently stable marriage that came after resounding love failures with Jenniffer López and Gwyneth Paltrow. Together with Garner, the Oscar winner at the beginning of his career as a screenwriter for Good Will Hunting, he went back not only to his image but also to his career, achieving a new statuette, this time as producer of Argo, a film he also directed, and turned into a new superhero in the new Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
The versions of this divorce are also divided and other sources consulted by the magazine prefer to speak of a separation by mutual agreement. “It's easy to write Ben off as a bad father and husband. And they always want to hang him in the guise of a womanizer and a player, ”says another source who makes his comments from the freedom that anonymity gives.
The truth is that both actors have more and more on their artistic plate. And as Affleck assured this newspaper while shooting Argo, his marriage worked in these busy times thanks to the patience and dedication of his wife and mother of his children.
Garner is currently shooting his next film, Miracles from Heaven, in Atlanta (USA), and Affleck will leave his little family vacation to attend Comic-Con in San Diego (USA) next Saturday, the largest gathering of fans of everything related to the world of science fiction and fantasy where he will present his next job as Batman in front of 8,000 angry fans who will care little about his divorce.