Ben Affleck is said to have sold himself on ‘being a changed man’ but failed to see it through during his marriage to Jennifer Lopez.
The couple, who first dated in the Noughties, are said to have first split because of the ‘public scrutiny’ surrounding their relationship but everything seemed to be going well when they rekindled in 2021.
WHAT WAS SAID?!
Yet after Lopez, 55, filed for divorce this week, a source told PageSix: ‘When they weren’t in front of the cameras. They would barely speak to each other during what was supposed to be the happiest time of their life.
‘He sold her on him being a changed man, and that lasted a very short time.’
They also claimed that Affleck – who has publicly battled with his sobriety – ‘started craving more privacy, and he could no longer take Lopez’s level of celebrity.
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HIS BATTLE WITH SOBRIETY
He’s had three stints in rehab in 2001, 2017 and 2018, with his first wife Jennifer Garner staging an intervention on the most recent occasion and driving him to treatment.
He later embarrassed the Alias actress by saying that he felt trapped in the marriage while trying to stay together for the sake of their children, and would cope by drinking a bottle of Scotch and falling asleep on the couch.
After facing a backlash, he later clarified that he was in no way blaming her for his alcoholism.
