Ben Affleck Writes Touching Letter To Jennifer Garner, Thanks Her For Being A 'Great Mom'

This was back in the far off year of 2004.

We all laughed when Ashlee Simpson was caught lip-syncing on SNL, we all had a good time watching White Chicks and of course, there was Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.

And in a world that was fresh off the heels of the doozy that was 2001, we needed something to make sense.

They first became friends when they shot Pearl Harbor.

However, they really started dating in mid-2004. It was a grand and beautiful relationship, two of Hollywood's biggest stars getting together was something we could all be happy for.

And then, they got married.

Yes, it was a private Turks and Caicos ceremony, but when we heard about it our hearts were melting.

But then, tragedy struck. Ten years after the wedding, we heard the worst news ever.

"What?" we asked "How could they do this?" It was outrageous! It was unfair!

But oh, was it true. And since, we have lived in a post Affleck-Garner world.

A much darker world.

He announced that he "regrets" his divorce from ex-wife, Jennifer Garner.

They have three kids together, daughter Violet, 14, daughter Seraphina, 11, and son Samuel, 7.

He began by talking about his new movie, The Way Back, in which he plays a high school basketball coach who ruins his marriage and lands himself in rehab.

This caused him to open up about how his own drinking has caused his marriage with Garner to crumble.

"There is no positive by-product of shame. It’s just stewing in a toxic, hideous feeling of low self-worth and self-loathing.”

“It’s not particularly healthy for me to obsess over the failures—the relapses—and beat myself up. I have certainly made mistakes. I have certainly done things that I regret. But you’ve got to pick yourself up, learn from it, learn some more, try to move forward.”

“I drank relatively normally for a long time,” he said.

“What happened was that I started drinking more and more when my marriage was falling apart. This was 2015, 2016. My drinking, of course, created more marital problems.”

He shared the note that he wrote for Jen following his infamous October 2019 relapse.

“What I want to say publicly and privately is, ‘Thank you. Thank you for being thoughtful, considerate, responsible, and a great mom and person.'"

“I never thought that I was gonna get divorced. I didn’t want to get divorced. I didn’t want to be a divorced person. I really didn’t want to be a split family with my children,” he admitted.

During his interview with Sawyer, Affleck revealed that he had seen some of the viral TMZ footage from his October 2019 relapse.

The footage showed him intoxicated and stumbling out of Kimpton La Peer Hotel after attending the UNICEF Masquerade Ball.

Sadly, this happened after he celebrated one year of sobriety.

After all, she was a constant support for him, even after their divorce.

“She wants Ben to be in the kids’ lives. That means dealing with things she isn’t happy about,” a source revealed to Us Weekly at the time.

“Jen’s major sticking point is that Ben needs to be sober — and truthful about it. There’s no wiggle room on that as far as his relationship with his kids goes."

“I have to be the man I wanna be at this point,” he said during his Good Morning America interview.

“I don’t have any more room for failure of that kind.”