The marriage of the Batman star Ben Affleck and prominent actress Jennifer Garner began in controversy and unfortunately ended the same way. The couple got married on June 29th, 2005 in a private ceremony of just four people. However, their chemistry can be traced back to the sets of the movie ‘Pearl Harbour’ in 2001. After this, they finally tied the knot after co-starring in the 2003 Marvel Comics movie ‘Daredevil’.

History of Batman & Elektra

After their divorce on October 4th, 2018, their married life has been the subject of much controversy on several American talk shows. Despite the fact that Jennifer Garner (who was famous for starring as Elektra in the 2005 superhero movie) was married to actor Scott Foley from 2000 to 2004, she struck up a romantic relationship with co-star Ben Affleck (now famous for starring in Zack Snyder’s Justice League as Batman) who was at the time engaged to pop star Jennifer Lopez for two years.

The Batman star Ben Affleck with ex-wife the Elektra star Jennifer Garner

The first news of divorce that the media received was in 2015 after which Garner decided to reconcile with a clear statement of wanting to make things work. But little is known about the extremely private lives of Affleck and Garner and surprisingly enough, they decided to file for divorce once again in 2017, which came to fruition in 2018.

Why did the Batman star feel trapped?

While the former couple’s three children Violet, Seraphina, and Samuel have learnt to live with their parents’ differences, due to the private nature of their lives, there is not much known about these three star kids. These three kids have been the main reason why the Batman star Ben Affleck had blurted out on ‘The Howard Stern Show’ that he “felt trapped” in his marriage.

In his own words, the hunk of an actor who embraced the role of the caped crusader in Zack Snyder’s Justice League 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 drank a bottle of scotch & fell asleep on the couch.” Affleck indirectly claimed that he developed a drinking problem because of the strained relationship he had with his ex-wife Garner coupled with his fatherly duties to Violet, Seraphina, and Samuel. 

Twitterati backed Garner instead of Affleck

Soon after this comment of the Batman star Ben Affleck aired, netizens on Twitter began rallying behind Jennifer Garner and at the same time throwing slander towards Affleck. Many users on Twitter claimed that Ben Affleck was an alcoholic because of his own misdeeds and that his ex-wife Jennifer Garner actually helped him get regular therapy for substance abuse. 

Other allegations began to be spewed up that the widely loved Batman star Affleck had, in fact, initiated an affair with their kids’ nanny and this is the main reason for their divorce in 2018. Some Twitter users even went so far as to claim that the comment made by Affleck on The Howard Stern Show is just to cover up his own adultery. 

Takeaway

Whatever be the reason for their divorce, it is clear from several other interviews that the respected Batman star Affleck had nothing but respect and appreciation towards his ex-wife Jennifer Garner. On Mother’s Day 2021, Ben Affleck made sure to publicly demonstrate this appreciation by saluting her efforts in co-parenting their three kids despite their personal differences. 

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