Jennifer Garner avoids Ben Affleck memes: ‘It doesn’t make me feel good’

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told Aussie magazine Stellar. “It doesn’t make me feel good, even if it’s something nice about one of us.”The “13 Going on 30” star said she also goes out of her way to avoid press coverage of all her loved ones.“I just try to forget that I’m out there in any way, and the same with anyone I love,” Garner added. “I don’t need to see anyone in my family made into a meme.

Although I’m sure he’s quite meme-worthy, yes!”Affleck, 50, and Garner met in 2001 on the set of the film “Pearl Harbor” and began dating publicly in 2004.The pair tied the knot in 2005 after announcing they were going to have the first of three children together.Affleck and Garner split in 2015 and finalized their divorce in 2018, the same year Affleck checked himself into rehab for alcoholism.While he’s now sober, the “Argo” actor said on “The Howard Stern Show” that he thinks he would still be drinking if he had stayed married to Garner.“We probably would’ve ended up at each other’s throats.

I probably still would’ve been drinking,” said Affleck, adding that he felt “trapped” in his marriage. “Part of why I started drinking was because I was trapped,” he said.“I was like, ‘I can’t leave because of my kids, but I’m not happy, what do I do?’ And what I did was [I] drank a bottle of scotch and fell asleep on the couch, which turned out not to be the solution,” continued Affleck. “Ultimately, we tried, we tried, we tried because we had kids, but both of us felt like we didn’t want this to be the model that our kids see of marriage.”But the “Good Will Hunting” star said they ended things on good terms.“We did it amicably.