Ben Affleck sets record straight about Jennifer Lopez split, praises 'wonderful' Jennifer Garner

"Batman" star Ben Affleck shared his respect for Jennifer Lopez and praised ex-wife Jennifer Garner in a new interview. The actor finalized his divorce from Lopez in January.

"Part of it was, ‘OK, if I’m going to participate in this, I want to try to do it in an honest way and in a way that’s interesting.’ Because I thought it was an interesting examination," Affleck explained in a cover story for GQ magazine. "There are a lot of people who I think have handled celebrity more adeptly and more adroitly than I have, Jennifer among them.  "The truth is, when you talk to somebody, ‘Hey, what happened?’ Well, there is no, ‘This is what happened.' It’s just a story about people trying to figure out their lives and relationships in ways that we all sort of normally do." "And I’m really lucky that I have a really good co-parent and partner in Jennifer Garner, the kids’ mom, who’s wonderful and great, and we work together well."

"My temperament is to be a little bit more reserved and private than hers. As happens in relationships, you don’t always have the same attitude towards these things. And so I thought, 'Oh, this is interesting, because how do you reconcile that?