A source told the Daily Mail: “[Garner] has been through it with the same man herself and although the circumstances were quite different… they both dealt with some of the same issues.”
Garner and Affleck split up in 2018, after which the 52-year-old actress began dating businessman John Miller. She may have moved on romantically from her ex-husband, but she sees Lopez as a source of stability in his life, and so wants to help save their marriage.
“Jen does not want Ben to pull the plug on this marriage because she really does care about JLo,” the aforementioned insider told the Daily Mail. They added that Garner “did go to his house to talk to him about this and to try and keep the two of them together.”
“JLo was told several times by Jen how valued she is in all their lives,” the source added. “She is one of the only women who can get through to Ben and keep him from jumping off the deep end with his addiction.”
Back in 2020, Affleck admitted in a New York Times interview that his drinking had worsened his “marital problems” with Garner.
“People with compulsive behavior, and I am one, have this kind of basic discomfort all the time that they’re trying to make go away,” he said at the time. “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. 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,” he continued. “That’s at least what happened to me.”
Earlier this week, Affleck was missing from the premiere of his wife’s new movie, Atlas.
