(CNN)Ben Affleck is feeling grateful for the second chances he's received, both professionally and in his love life. Promoting his new movie "The Tender Bar," the actor tells The Wall Street Journal that he's really changed over the last five years. "Only within the last five years, I really felt increasingly grateful for the difficulties that I've had.
It's not insignificant, because a lot of that pain is rooted in pain caused to other people. And that turns out to be the most painful thing in life," he tells the publication.
As for a second chance with Jennifer Lopez, who he is once again dating 17 years after their breakup, he at first held back a bit in the interview saying, "You can write conjecture about it, but one of the harder.
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