Jennifer Garner is opening up about the lengths the paparazzi would go to for pictures of her and Ben Affleck’s children.
“If I went through a yellow light, 15 cars would go through the red [light] behind me. They would drive up onto people’s lawns, even on a hillside,” Garner, 54, recalled in an interview on the Tuesday, July 21, episode of the “Shut Up Evan” podcast.
Garner and Affleck, 53, were married from 2005 to 2018 after costarring in 2003’s Daredevil. They share three children: Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 12.
“We were trying to have our little one play soccer, and the association asked us to stop because there were 20 cars coming,” the Five-Star Weekend actress remembered. “It wasn’t just about us, it was just an industry that had gotten out of control.”
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have been coparenting pros since their 2015 split. The exes became parents with the birth of their daughter Violet in December 2005, followed by Seraphina in January 2009 and Samuel in February 2012. Affleck and Garner announced they were separating after 10 years of marriage in June 2015 via a […]
“If you show up and you’re trying to get into the pediatrician and you have a sick kid on your shoulder and you’re scared, and you can’t get into the door because you’re blocked by photographers, there’s something wrong with that,” Garner said. “And the kids are paying the price.”
“Kids were getting knocked over coming out of preschool by photographers who were so hungry to get to me or to Ben, trying to get to our kids,” she added.
According to Garner, photographers were particularly interested in snapping pictures of her and her children despite “more famous” people living nearby.
“It just got silly,” she said. “I mean, I lived on the street with a lot of much more famous and successful people than I, but they followed me because I had the kids.”
Garner continued, “They wouldn’t follow Ben, they wouldn’t follow Matt Damon … they were like, ‘There’s the chick with the kids.’”
The Alias alum said she is still followed by at least two photographers and has developed something of a rapport with one of them.
“I have two [photographers] every day who’ve been assigned to me for 20-plus years, 25 years,” Garner said. “I have a very interesting relationship with my main guy. I’ve done anything to ask him to leave, and at the same time, we have an odd respect for each other.”
Jennifer Garner offered a glimpse into her coparenting dynamic with ex-husband Ben Affleck. “There is a time in your life where you do get caught in all of that. And that’s OK,” Garner, 54, told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Thursday, July 16, while reflecting on finding the balance between a successful career and […]
“We’ve had some really real-life moments together,” the actress explained. “I was followed by someone who, for whatever reason, I thought was gonna hurt me, and I ran to him because I knew him and trusted him, and I knew he and I would be OK.”
Garner added, “There’s kind of a Stockholm syndrome thing and at the same time, I’ve called the cops on him a million times and been like, ‘Can you please just give me a walk around the block with my kids and my dog?’”
