Ben Affleck went back to rehab as production was set to start on his new film The Way Back a few years back, and we’re now learning that his ex wife Jennifer Garner called the director of the film during that time. Ben, who plays a basketball coach struggling with alcohol addiction in the film, was worried the movie would be scrapped after he had to leave to go to rehab. “So what happened was, just as we started prepping the movie, Ben fell off the wagon,” director of the movie Gavin O’Connor told the UPenn student run magazine, 34th Street. “So he ended up going to rehab, and I didn’t know if the movie was over.
The studio certainly thought the movie was over. His ex–wife Jennifer Garner called me up, and told me that when he went to
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