Ben Affleck Breaks Silence on Grammys ‘Sadfleck’ Viral Second
Sadfleck or Happyfleck? Ben Affleck became an fast meme following he was spotted searching bored and depressing in the course of the 2023 Grammy Awards on February 5, but the Armageddon star now insists that he was not sad at all.
“I experienced a superior time at the Grammys,” Ben, 50, instructed the Hollywood Reporter one month soon after likely viral, incorporating that he determined to go to the display with wife Jennifer Lopez because he assumed there would “be superior songs.” “At movie award exhibits, it is speeches and, like, seem-mixing webinars. But I assumed this would be enjoyable.”
Ben went on to say that the second he observed Grammy host Trevor Noah approaching their desk, he knew the newlyweds would be on digicam.
“They ended up framing us in this shot, but I didn’t know they had been rolling. I leaned into [Jen] and I was like, ‘As quickly they start rolling, I’m heading to slide absent from you and depart you sitting upcoming to Trevor,’” he recalled. “She goes, ‘You greater f–king not leave.’”
In accordance to the He’s Just Not That Into You actor, there have been situations when he attended occasions he would have relatively not been at, but the 2023 Grammy Awards was not a single of them.
“I’ve gone to occasions and been pissed off. I’ve long gone and been bored. I have gone to award demonstrates and been drunk, a bunch,” he advised the outlet. “Nobody at any time as soon as reported I’m drunk [those times]. [But at the Grammys] they have been like, ‘He’s drunk.’”
Ben – who has been open up about his struggles with alcoholism – went on to say he inadvertently “became 1 of the poster boys for actor alcoholism.”
“[People assuming I was drunk] raises a whole other detail about no matter if or not it’s wise to accept addiction mainly because there’s a great deal of compassion, but there is however a huge stigma,” he said. “I do feel it disincentivizes folks from building their lives superior.”
Even though Ben claimed that the world wide web memes obtained it completely wrong, subsequent the display, an insider revealed to In Touch that he was only “uncomfortable.”
“Ben was on his best habits as Jen’s date, which is the only reason he was there,” the insider exclusively explained to In Contact on February 6. “But it was noticeable that he didn’t sense cozy because all eyes ended up on him.”
For her component, the “Let’s Get Loud” songstress, 53, took to Instagram that exact same day to say that she “always [has] the very best time” with her spouse.
