“It’s part of why I started drinking,” Affleck told Stern. “Because I was trapped.”
Affleck said he and Garner struggled to keep their family together. They are the parents of Violet, 16, Seraphina, 12, and Samuel, 9.
“We had a marriage that didn’t work, this happens, with somebody that I love and respect, but to whom I shouldn’t be married any longer,” he said. “Ultimately, we tried. We tried, we tried because we had kids.”
“I was like ‘I can’t leave ’cause of my kids, but I’m not happy, what do I do?'” Affleck said. “What I did was drink a bottle of scotch and fall asleep on the couch, which turned out not to be the solution.”
Some on social media took Affleck to task for, in their opinion, blaming Garner for his addiction.
CNN has reached out to reps for Garner for comment.
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