Ahead of the March 2020 release of “The Way Back,” a sports-drama about a high school basketball coach facing an addiction problem, lead actor Ben Affleck has opened up about his private — and at times, public — struggle with alcoholism, as well as his divorce to Hollywood actress Jennifer 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,” Affleck told The New York Times in a deeply personal interview. “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.”
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