JEN STRESSED BY SCRUTINY
For Jennifer Garner, time apparently doesn’t heal all wounds. The actress recently opened up about her split from Cambridge’s own Ben Affleck — namely, how the ever-peeping public continues to take an emotional toll on her throughout their prolonged divorce.
“I really feel the stress of it. I really, I could cry talking about it,” the actress said of the constant surveillance during an interview on CBS’ “Sunday Morning” that aired yesterday.
The celebrity couple — who share three children, Violet, 12, Seraphina, 9, and Samuel, 6 — have been separated since 2015 and officially filed for divorce last year. Despite having decided to legally end their 10-year marriage in April 2017, eager eyes have steadily remained on their rapport instead of any interest dying down.
“What I think I’ve learned is that the scrutiny in your private life puts a pressure to make something happen,” Garner said. “You feel a pressure to hurry up and get married, ’cause you think that’ll end the ‘Are they engaged? Are they not?’ ”
“And that’s true in the reverse, as well. If there is any inkling of trouble, or if the tabloids decide there’s trouble, it can create trouble,” she said, adding, “But to be honest, public scrutiny, everyone says, ‘Oh, you’ve had to go through this in public.’ The public isn’t what’s hard. What’s hard is going through it.”