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Ben Affleck On How Father's Alcoholism Influenced His Decision to Stay Sober For His Kids | THR News
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The actor opened up about how his children inspire him to stay sober, revealing that alcoholism runs in his family.
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I started to drink more and more and more, and it was really hard for me to accept that that meant I was an alcoholic.
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I was like, I can just go back.
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Ben Affleck opened up in a revealing new interview with GMA about what or who inspired him to stay sober.
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The actor spoke candidly in a two-part interview with Diane Sawyer that aired on Good Morning America.
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In the Thursday segment, the actor revealed that alcoholism runs in his family.
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For me, seeing my dad was just, he was drunk every day, and that was just life.
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And as that got worse, that was really, really painful.
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While he said that he wished his father had been sober during his childhood,
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seeing his father's alcoholism is how the actor says he learned how important it was for him to stay sober during his kid's formative years.
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Affleck credited his children for his decision to go to rehab two times over the past three years.
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I really don't want my children to pay for my sins or to be afraid for me,
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which is one of the hard parts of being the child of an alcoholic.
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During the second part of Affleck's interview on Friday,
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the actor credited some famous friends for helping him stay sober.
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He shared that fellow actors Bradley Cooper and Robert Downey Jr.
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were helpful and supportive during his sobriety and called them wonderful men.
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Affleck also opened up about his divorce to Jennifer Garner,
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admitting that he had a hard time accepting it.
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The couple who shared three children divorced in 2018.
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They didn't want to be a divorced person.
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I really didn't want to be a split family with my children.
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He continued saying,
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It upset me because it meant I wasn't who I thought I was,
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and that was so painful and so disappointing.
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The actor was also asked if there was anything from his past that he wished he could change.
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I've made plenty of mistakes, some big, some small.
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I wish I could go back time and change all kinds of things, but I can't.
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For more on this story, head to tjar.com.
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For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.
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For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.
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