Ben Affleck’s public letter to ex Jennifer Garner

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He sat down for a tell-all interview during which he opened up about his struggles with sobriety, being a dad and his very public split from the actress.

in which he plays an alcoholic trying to put his life back together.

“People with compulsive behaviour, and I am one, have this kind of basic discomfort all the time that they’re trying to make go away,” Affleck told the outlet. “You’re trying to make yourself feel better with eating or drinking or sex or gambling or shopping or whatever. But that ends up making your life worse. Then you do more of it to make that discomfort go away. Then the real pain starts. It becomes a vicious cycle you can’t break.”He added: “That’s at least what happened to me.

Affleck recalled that he “drank relatively normally” for most of his marriage. But in 2015 or 2016, as issues began to bubble up in the relationship, he began to drink more heavily, which “created more marital problems”.He said that while he still feels guilt over the split, he’s moved beyond the shame.

“Shame is really toxic. There is no positive by-product of shame,” he said. “It’s just stewing in a toxic, hideous feeling of low self-worth and self-loathing.”

 

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