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00:00Okay, can we just talk about the absolute chaos unfolding with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's co-parenting?
00:06I mean, J.Lo comes back into the picture and is like, six years of painstakingly built peace, just poof, gone.
00:13It's an incredible reversal.
00:14I mean, for over a decade, Garner's whole public persona was about protecting him, protecting the family, being the stable one through all of it.
00:24Right.
00:25The fact that she's apparently done with that, that's the real story here.
00:28That's what we need to get into.
00:30That's the mission for this deep dive.
00:31We're going to break down why the years of protection are over.
00:34But first, since you're here with us, we need your immediate take.
00:37Are you Team Garner or Team J.Lo in this whole mess?
00:40Drop your gut reaction in the comments.
00:42And for everyone just tuning in, you're listening to the latest celebrity gossip.
00:47And today, we're diving headfirst into the breakup of Hollywood's most carefully maintained co-parenting unit.
00:53The years of Garner taking the high road are, it seems, officially over.
00:58And what the reports are saying behind the scenes is absolutely brutal.
01:01Okay.
01:01So to really get it, we have to start at the very beginning.
01:04The foundation of their whole relationship is, well, it's kind of ironic, isn't it?
01:08Oh, massively.
01:09They met on the set of Daredevil back in 2002.
01:11And Ben himself later admitted they fell in love while filming.
01:16Which is key context here.
01:19A huge deal.
01:20Because at the time, he was in, like, the most famous engagement on the planet with Jennifer Lopez.
01:25And Garner was married to Scott Foley.
01:27People forget that part.
01:28They do.
01:28So the timeline gets really messy really fast.
01:31Garner and Foley split in March 2003.
01:33Then later that year, Ben and J.Lo famously call off their wedding.
01:37And J.Lo was not quiet about how devastating that was.
01:40She said she felt eviscerated, that she, you know, lost her sense of self.
01:45It was a huge public heartbreak.
01:46And then what felt like minutes later, poof.
01:49By fall 2004, Ben and Garner are suddenly very publicly together at the World Series.
01:53It's so fast.
01:55Engaged by April 2005.
01:57Married by June 2005.
01:58With, like, four people there.
02:00Super secret.
02:01So their entire marriage was basically built on the ashes of another very public relationship.
02:06Exactly.
02:07And the irony is just, it's perfect.
02:09The marriage was built on a relationship that started while he was with the exact woman who would return almost 20 years later to, you know, blow up the stability they built.
02:19It's wild.
02:20So if that's the messy foundation, the next 10 years were all about Garner's master class in PR and damage control.
02:27She was, for a decade, the anchor.
02:29The ultimate anchor.
02:30I mean, for 10 years, while they had their three kids, Violet, Serafina, and Samuel, her entire job, according to all the reports, was just maintaining normalcy while Ben was publicly struggling with his demons.
02:41She managed that narrative so well, even with the nanny scandal in 2015.
02:45Oh, that was a catastrophe.
02:47The reports that he took the nanny to Vegas.
02:49His rep denied it, of course, called it complete garbage.
02:52But the timing was suspicious.
02:53The divorce announcement came, like, days later.
02:56But here's where her strategy was genius.
02:58Even after that, in her big Vanity Fair interview, she calls him the love of my life.
03:03Such a calculated move.
03:04Totally.
03:05It wasn't just emotion.
03:07She was positioning herself as the one taking the high road.
03:10The one who would never, ever trash him in public.
03:13For the kids.
03:14And that focus on stability just kept going.
03:17In 2017, they even paused the divorce filings.
03:20Not to get back together, but just for the children.
03:22And he knew it.
03:24When he went to rehab that year, he posted that big thank you on Facebook to my co-parent, Jen.
03:30He publicly acknowledged that she was holding it all together for him and the kids.
03:35Which is what makes what happens next so, uh, because she set a very clear boundary during this time.
03:40Right.
03:40When she started seeing John Miller, she was super protective.
03:45Kept him completely away from the kids for a long time.
03:48The rule was obvious.
03:49You figure out your own stuff first.
03:50You don't bring the kids into it until it's serious and stable.
03:53They were shielded.
03:54It was six years of structure.
03:56Of careful, deliberate healing.
03:58From 2015 to 2021, they had a system.
04:00And then, April 2021.
04:03Bennifer 2.0.
04:04The nuclear option.
04:05And this is where it all just crumbles.
04:08Ben and J-Lo get back together.
04:10And while the rest of the world is, like, thrilled about the nostalgia, you have to imagine Jen Garner is just watching her entire system fall apart in real time.
04:21It wasn't just that they got back together.
04:22It was the speed, the public nature of it all.
04:25Within two months, they're in that super steamy, very public make-out session in Balibu.
04:31And the photo tells the whole story.
04:33Because J-Lo's son, Max, is right there.
04:35He literally interrupts them to show them something on his phone.
04:38Yes.
04:38The kids were part of the spectacle from day one.
04:41And this is the part of the story that's breaking now.
04:43The reports say Ben introduced J-Lo to his three kids almost immediately.
04:48We're talking within weeks.
04:49Without asking Garner.
04:50Without consulting her at all.
04:52Just a unilateral decision that completely stomped all over the precedent she had so carefully set.
04:57So the conflict was basically over the pace, right?
05:00Totally.
05:00It's two completely different parenting philosophies.
05:02But Garner, who did everything slowly, thought it was way too early.
05:07One source said they just don't see eye to eye on raising their kids.
05:10Meanwhile, the justification from sources close to J-Lo was that her twins were used to being around a lot of people.
05:19Which, not the point.
05:20Ben's kids weren't.
05:21They had been in a protected private bubble specifically to heal.
05:25And overnight, they're not just meeting their dad's new girlfriend.
05:28They're thrust into this global media circus.
05:32That's the failure right there.
05:33Yeah.
05:33The moment he did that, the co-parenting stopped being about the kids' needs.
05:37It was now about servicing his romance.
05:39And suddenly, Violet, Serafina, and Samuel's faces are all over the tabloids next to J-Lo.
05:46Their private lives became public entertainment.
05:49And the irony is just, it's blinding.
05:51Four years earlier, he's on Facebook thanking her for protecting them.
05:54Now he's the one throwing them to the wolves for a relationship.
05:57You compare Garner hiding John Miller for ages versus Ben doing this.
06:01It's a stark contrast.
06:03And the latest celebrity news is really clear on this.
06:05This wasn't about Garner being jealous of the romance.
06:08No, she'd moved on.
06:09It was about her watching the carefully constructed stability fall apart.
06:14She lost her husband to J-Lo twice, in a way.
06:17But the second time, she also lost the entire co-parenting system she sacrificed everything to build.
06:22And that's the breaking point.
06:23That's when the reports say she finally stopped protecting him.
06:27Of course.
06:27Yeah.
06:28Her job was no longer protecting him.
06:30He was protecting her kids from his choices.
06:33She couldn't uphold his image when his actions were undermining their security.
06:36She had to pick a side.
06:37Her co-parent's reputation or her children's privacy.
06:40And she chose the kids.
06:42He's the one who destroyed the peace treaty.
06:44Not back in 2015 with the divorce, but in 2021, when he brought the circus back to town.
06:49So, to recap this whole deep dive, the official story of this perfect, stable co-parenting was basically a smokescreen.
06:58Ben prioritized a rekindled romance over the rules they had in place.
07:02And J-Lo's return was the catalyst that just exposed all of it.
07:06It leaves you with that one big question, right?
07:08Totally.
07:08Did Ben follow his heart?
07:10Or did he just shatter his kid's sense of security for a trip down memory lane?
07:13So whose side are you on?
07:15Team Garner?
07:16Team Ben?
07:17Or maybe?
07:18Team Everyone's Messy?
07:20Well, that's all the tea we have for today.
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