The Tender Bar, Ben Affleck recently talked extra candidly to Howard Stern about his relationship with ex-wife Jennifer Garner and his alcohol addiction.
He talked about how unhappy he was in their marriage, and how he believes those circumstances contributed to his reliance on alcohol. "That was part of why I started drinking alcohol—I was trapped," Affleck told Stern. "I was like, 'I can't leave because of my kids, but I am not happy.
What do I do?' What I did was drink a bottle of scotch on the couch, which turned out not to be the solution. "Although Affleck was in a bad way during his marriage to Garner, he clarified the immense "respect" he had and has for her, and wasn't in any way trying to blame her for his alcoholism.