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		</div><p>Ben Affleck has opened up on his battle with alcohol and his split from Jennifer Garner, describing the divorce as the “biggest regret of my life”.</p>
<p>In a deeply personal interview, the Hollywood actor, 47, also revealed he walked away from the forthcoming Batman film over fears he would drink himself to death.</p>
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<p>Affleck was married to Garner for 13 years from 2005 and the former couple have three children together.</p>
<figure id="attachment_149822" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-149822" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-149822" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/45464AAB-0364-4274-9FAE-ADEBA0F07E78.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="858" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-149822" class="wp-caption-text">Ben Affleck has opened up on his divorce from Jennifer Garner, describing it as the biggest regret of his life</figcaption></figure>
<p>“The biggest regret of my life is this divorce,” he told the New York Times.</p>
<p>“Shame is really toxic. There is no positive byproduct of shame. It’s just stewing in a toxic, hideous feeling of low self-worth and self-loathing.”</p>
<p>Affleck, who has won two Oscars as a filmmaker, will next star in drama The Way Back, in which he portrays an alcoholic basketball coach coming to terms with the end of his marriage.</p>
<p>Reflecting on his own battles with drink, Affleck, who had a public relapse in October, said: “People with compulsive behaviour, and I am one, have this kind of basic discomfort all the time that they’re trying to make go away.</p>
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<p>“You’re trying to make yourself feel better with eating or drinking or sex or gambling or shopping or whatever. But that ends up making your life worse.</p>
<p>“Then you do more of it to make that discomfort go away. Then the real pain starts. It becomes a vicious cycle you can’t break. That’s at least what happened to me.”</p>
<p>Affleck, a Hollywood leading man known for films including The Town, Argo and Daredevil, had been set to direct, write and star in the upcoming superhero film The Batman.</p>
<p>He first played the Caped Crusader in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice. However, Matt Reeves has taken over as writer-director while British actor Robert Pattinson will play the Dark Knight.</p>
<p>Explaining why he walked away from the project, Affleck said: “I showed somebody The Batman script. They said, ‘I think the script is good. I also think you’ll drink yourself to death if you go through what you just went through again’.”</p>
<p>Affleck has reportedly had three stints in rehab, in 2001, 2017 and 2018.</p>
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