Watch Ben Affleck Get Emotional speakme About His Divorce ...

Ben Affleck isn't executed opening up about his divorce from Jennifer Garner.

The actor, presently on an emotional press tour for his movie the manner lower back, sat down with Diane Sawyer for decent Morning the usa to discuss his sobriety, divorce, and that TMZ video.

When asked about that final one—a video that was launched this past October and perceived to reveal a sobriety setback for Affleck—the actor/director revealed he best watched a part of it. "i do know what it looks like to be under the influence of alcohol," he instructed Sawyer. "I don't deserve to watch any more of it."

the most emotional a part of the interview came when he started discussing the conclusion of his marriage to Garner. To him, it turned into the hardest issue to confess to himself. "I on no account notion that i was gonna get divorced. I didn't need to get divorced. I didn't wish to be a divorced grownup. I definitely didn't need to be a break up family with my little ones," he says, choking again tears. "And it upset me since it intended I wasn't who i assumed i was. And that become so painful and so disappointing in myself."

See the entire interview, below:

Affleck and Garner, who share three little ones, signed divorce papers in October 2018 after first splitting in June 2015 after 10 years of marriage. In a new profile with the long island instances, Affleck spoke of, "The biggest be apologetic about of my life is that this divorce."

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner on November 27, 2019 in l. a., California. BG004/Bauer-Griffin

however no matter if it's his divorce or his struggles with alcoholism (he's now sober), Affleck doesn't plan to wallow in his mistakes. "shame is definitely toxic. There isn't any fantastic by-product of shame. It's just stewing in a toxic, hideous feeling of low self-value and self-loathing," Affleck observed. "It's no longer certainly suit for me to obsess over the screw ups—the relapses—and beat myself up. I even have actually made error. I actually have definitely done things that I regret. but you've got to prefer yourself up, be taught from it, learn some greater, are trying to stream forward."