{"id":223298,"date":"2026-01-08T14:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223298\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:05:12","slug":"jennifer-garner-gets-raw-about-ben-affleck-divorce-in-rare-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223298\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Garner Gets Raw About Ben Affleck Divorce In Rare Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Jennifer Garner<br \/>\n                          Time to Get Real About Ben Divorce&#8230;<br \/>\n                          Partnership, Friendship Lost<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              January 7, 2026<br \/>\n                            5:54 PM PST\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260108_1393549b94e547248dfee027ea67f859\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:3a4d7a3a-db78-4b35-aab9-5589f4c00371\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1393549b94e547248dfee027ea67f859_md.jpg\" alt=\"jennifer garner ben affleck getty comp\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jennifer-garner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Garner<\/a> is looking back on a rough time in her life &#8230; making some rare comments about her divorce from ex-husband <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/ben-affleck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Affleck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Marie Claire published Wednesday, Jennifer revealed she did her best to steer clear of all the coverage of her 2015 divorce with Ben, which was all over the news.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250712_e15e96b1e7b74dd9a2b45ff9be71d4c5\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:3a4d7a3a-db78-4b35-aab9-5589f4c00371\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e15e96b1e7b74dd9a2b45ff9be71d4c5_md.jpg\" alt=\"ben affleck jennifer garner red sox game sub\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer says &#8230; &#8220;You have to be smart about what you can and can&#8217;t handle, and I could not handle what was out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But she said the headlines and stories weren&#8217;t what was truly hard &#8230; instead, it was the actual divorce.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer told the outlet &#8230; &#8220;The actual breaking up of a family is what was hard. Losing a true partnership and friendship is what was hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you know &#8230; Ben and Jennifer were married for a decade until they pulled the plug in 2015 with a divorce that dragged on for about 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250712_10dce0a182454fe4bb30ba609be343c3\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:3a4d7a3a-db78-4b35-aab9-5589f4c00371\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10dce0a182454fe4bb30ba609be343c3_md.jpg\" alt=\"ben affleck jennifer garner red sox game sub 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exes have been on great terms for a while now and share three kids together &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/violet-affleck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Violet<\/a>, Fin, and Samuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Garner Time to Get Real About Ben Divorce&#8230; Partnership, Friendship Lost Published January 7, 2026 5:54 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-223298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}