Ben Affleck Gets Upclose And Personal With Parade Magazine

 

Ben Affleck talks to Parade Magazine about his sweet little daughter Violet and how he considers his little girl “the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“She is happy as hell and talks like crazy!” says Affleck. “She has the ability to make me smile and feel so good and be so charmed that, when I’m not with her for a while, all I want to do is go home, just to be around her again.”

On his not-so-great childhood:

“I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did,” he says. “ I played sports, but I wasn’t great at them, so it wasn’t like I was super-athletic and getting a huge amount of praise for that. There was alcoholism at home because of my father. I changed schools [at 8 years old], and I didn’t really know the kids at the new school. I felt alone.”

On acting:

“I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing,” he explains. “A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it. Then, basically, came the next stage—should I continue to act or not?”

Check out more in the October 14 issue of Parade Magazine