However, the fanfare proved thoroughly entertaining for Affleck's children, who have a long-running joke of making up hypothetical titles for their future autobiographies.
“My daughter just turns to me,” the actor noted, “and goes, 'J.Lo was my stepmother.' I said, “That's a good title.” It could be a lot worse than that.”
Joking aside, Affleck was also candid about witnessing the negative effects that all the media attention surrounding him, Lopez and Garner has had on his children.
“Every day I'm alive I want to make sure I'm doing the right thing by them, making their lives better,” he reflected. “And that doesn't mean that sometimes I don't come home and see that they've been through some bulls… T. It breaks my heart when I say, 'This would never happen if Jo wasn't in this life.' And it's hard, I really, really think about it a lot.”
However, Affleck acknowledged that his fame has benefits.
“But I also know that I like this life more for them than the one I had,” he added. “And that's the bottom line. And I talk about that a lot with Jennifer as we look at what a difference it makes in our kids' lives.”
Read on for a look back at Affleck and Lopez's decades-long relationship. New episodes of Heart to heart premieres Thursdays on Peacock.
