Jennifer Garner Recalls 'Surviving' Ben Affleck's Obsession With Beyoncé
The 53-year-old actress appeared at a Los Angeles bookstore on Thursday
alongside author Laura Dave, noting during the event that Dave likes to work
while listening to music - a habit she said she knows all too well from her
famous ex.
'Do you guys do this? Do you listen to a song
over and over again? I just want to tell you something. I've survived
this. I have lived through it,' Garner joked.
'Ben Affleck listens to a song over and over. I had a three-month-old
and a three-year-old living in a rental in Cambridge, Massachusetts while he was shooting
The Town. And he listened to Beyoncé's 'Halo,' and I would be nursing."
Affleck and Jennifer Garner were married from
2005 until 2015 and share three children: Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and
Samuel, 13.
Back in 2010, Affleck directed his second film The Town, starring Blake Lively,
while Beyoncé’s Halo, released in January 2009, was one of her biggest hits
and, according to Jennifer Garner, became the relentless soundtrack to his unforgettable
Halo phase.
Affleck himself has admitted he often listens
to the same songs on repeat while working.
'I listen to music when I write and usually I will find a couple of
songs that are inspiring to me and I just sort of put them on a loop and then I
will write to music,' he said in a 2016 Golden Globes interview.
'And I find that it’s kind of hypnotic and it
allows me to concentrate more and it puts me more in the kind of feeling of the
scene that I want the story to have.
'And so I think music is really, really
helpful.'
The candid bookstore moment comes after the
Daily Mail reported that Jennifer Garner and Affleck’s other ex, Jennifer
Lopez, whom he split with in 2025 after three years of marriage, were not
photographed together at the Golden Globes.
Lopez has twins Max and Emme with her
ex-husband Marc Anthony, while Jennifer Garner has Violet, Seraphina, and
Samuel with Affleck.
The families reportedly all get along well,
and insiders say the children's friendships remain a priority for both women.
Meanwhile, Affleck and his longtime friend
Matt Damon brought their trademark banter to The Today Show this week, sharing
stories from decades of friendship.
‘Um, [he's] not great at cleaning up around
the house,’ Affleck admitted about Damon, who quickly shot back, ‘Hey! [That
was] when I was younger.’
Affleck laughed off the defense: ‘Well,
that's all I have to go by. I mean, we could ask your wife and see if it's
gotten better.’
Damon, for his part, pointed out that his
co-star’s tardiness can still be a challenge.
‘We got here this morning and Ben was three
minutes early. He got here before me and that's the first time in 45 years he
has not been late,’ he joked.
The pair first collaborated on their 1997 hit
Good Will Hunting, a film that earned them an Oscar.
Damon then shared a funny early story involving
his wife, Luciana.
‘After we'd been together for a little while,
probably a few months, she admitted that — I think I met her best friend from
high school, and it came out that the two of them went and saw Good Will
Hunting together, and her best friend thought I was the cute one, and she
thought Ben was the cute one.
'So she admitted to me… I'm like, "You
got the wrong one?" She told me that 23 years ago.’
He added that the moment hasn’t affected
their professional rapport today, noting that Luciana is a producer on The Rip,
as well as Affleck’s upcoming directorial project, Animals.
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