The couple separated after a decade of marriage and officially divorced three years later in 2018.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner divorced in 2018 after a 13-year marriage. Picture / Reuters
Garner told the magazine she leaned on close friends to help her cope.
“I make a big, concerted effort to see my people as much as I can, because that’s what matters,” she said.
“That’s where your resilience is, it’s in your relationships and in the people who carry you through.
“It’s important for women to know, when they think, ‘Oh, I’ll never see that, I’ll never have that feeling, I’ll never be friends with this person again’, [that] time is the opportunity to heal.”
According to People, the former couple remain close and are active co-parents to their three children, daughters Violet, 20, and Seraphina, 17, and son Samuel, 13.
She described co-parenting while in the public eye as “the hardest thing”.
“Not hard in the grand scheme of what is hard in the world, but tricky for me and tricky for my family,” she said.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner remain close and are active co-parents to their three children.
She said her children had always been her priority over her career.
“It never felt like a sacrifice. It was really hard to go to work and it definitely shaped the jobs I chose, in a big way,” she said.
News.com.au reported Garner supported Affleck after his 2024 divorce from Jennifer Lopez, with the pair seen spending time together with their children, including over Thanksgiving.
Garner is now in a five-year relationship with businessman John Miller, the chief executive of the tech company CaliGroup.