You Won’t Believe What Ben Affleck Is Saying About His Marriage To Jennifer Garner Now—She Must Be FURIOUS!

The Argo director went on to say that he wanted to stay in the marriage for the sake of their three children – Violet, 16, Seraphina, 12, and Samuel, 9 – and turned to alcohol for the "solution" to his problems. He continued: "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 I drank a bottle of scotch and fell asleep on the couch, which turned out not to be the solution. Ultimately, we tried, we tried, we tried because we had kids, but both of us felt like we didn’t want this to be the model that our kids see of marriage."

The Gone Girl actor then went on to clarify that most of what the tabloids speculated about their marriage and divorce was false (although he used a much more colorful and NSFW word) and their divorce was, contrary to reports, actually quite amicable.

"Everything you read in the news about the divorce was *expletive.* The truth was we took our time, we made our decision … We grew apart,” he said. "We had a marriage that didn’t work. This happens. She’s somebody I love and respect, but to whom I shouldn’t be married any longer."

"We did it amicably. We did our best," he concluded. "Did we have moments of tension? Did we have disagreements over custody? Was stuff difficult for us? Did we get angry? Yes, but fundamentally it was always underpinned with a respect. I knew she was a good mom. I always hoped she knew I was a good dad. I knew I was." We're glad to hear that he redeemed himself at the end of the interview; but we wonder what Garner will have to say about his initial comments about his drinking…