Good Will Hunting star's father got the news secondhand. In a new interview with , Timothy Affleck said hasn't talked to his son “in ages.” Despite their lack of contact, Timothy is happy for the recently engaged couple. “If everything one reads on the internet is true, they're having a good time together,” he told The Sun. “He's quite busy with all of his new found activities.
He's been working a lot, which no one seems to care about. They care about romance."He continued, “I haven’t been in touch recently, but we write periodically so it’s OK.
I saw my grandkids a few months back." Affleck has three children with ex-wife Jennifer Garner: Violet, Seraphina, and Samuel.
Ben Affleck recently proposed to while the Marry Me star was . “Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed," she wrote in the latest edition of her newsletter. "I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying hard to get my head around the fact that after 20 years this was happening all over again, I was quite literally speechless and he said, ‘is that a yes?’ I said YES of course that’s a YES.” Based on the rest of the interview, it seems Timothy hasn't reconnected with Lopez since she was first engaged to Ben back in the early 2000s. “I did meet Jennifer [Lopez] when they first dated," he said. “There's a lot I admire about her, she's quite a special woman.”He continued, “What I like most about her is that she did it all herself, she brought herself up on so many different levels, she’s obviously very talented.
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