Actually, the Reason for Ben Affleck and J.Lo’s Divorce Was Pretty Boring

Ben Affleck is opening up about his divorce from Jennifer Lopez. And he wants you to know the reason for their split isn’t as interesting as you think it is. “There’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue,” he told GQ in a new cover story. Really, he added, “The truth is much more quotidian than probably people would believe or would be interesting.” And what is that truth? “It’s really, it sounds more like a couple’s therapy session, which — you would tune out of someone else’s couple’s therapy after a while,” Affleck said. (We beg to differ, but continue.) “For one thing, you start going, ‘Okay, clearly this person has got these issues. Clearly they have these issues.’ And the reason I don’t want to share that is just sort of embarrassing. It feels vulnerable.”

In other words, there was more to it than just him focusing on The Accountant 2, and no, he didn’t leave J.Lo to run back to his ex Jennifer Garner. You won’t find any clues to their split in Lopez’s documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, either. “You’ve got to own what you knew going into any relationship,” Affleck said of Lopez’s fame. “And I think it’s important to say that wasn’t the cause of some major fracture. It’s not like you can watch that documentary and go, ‘Oh, now I understand the issues that these two had.’” Affleck added that he still has “nothing but respect” for Lopez. So can he go back to promoting his action flick now?

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