Jennifer Garner got candid about her divorce from Ben Affleck.

Marie Claire UK dropped a new interview with the actress on Wednesday — and she made a rare comment about the difficulties of their very public breakup. His exes have a lot to say about him this week, apparently! LOLz! Perezcious readers know the pair went their separate ways back in 2015 after a decade of marriage, and they finalized the divorce three years later. Jennifer and Ben had three kids together: Violet, Fin, and Samuel. And looking back on that period in her life, the 13 Going on 30 star shared that she “could not handle” the intense interest over an already “hard” situation for her and her family:

“You have to be smart about what you can and can’t handle, and I could not handle what was out there. But what was out there was not what was hard. The fact of it is what was hard. The actual breaking up of a family is what was hard. Losing a true partnership and friendship is what was hard.”

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So, Jennifer refuses to engage in all the chatter about her personal life:

“It doesn’t serve me to take in gossip about myself or anyone else, much less my kids, so I don’t do it.”

Of course, it’s not always gonna be easy for the Alias alum to ignore it all. Jennifer expressed that navigating the public interest in her children and her own private life has been “the hardest thing,” adding:

“Not hard in the grand scheme of what is hard in the world, but tricky for me and tricky for my family.”

Thankfully, through it all, especially her divorce from Ben, she had a strong support system around her. Jennifer continued:

“I make a big, concerted effort to see my people as much as I can, because that’s what matters…. That’s where your resilience is: it’s in your relationships and in the people who carry you through.”

So true! Despite their breakup, Ben and Jennifer can co-parent amicably together — one of the many “surprises” about her life at this point. She said:

“And then, yeah, that I’m able to co-parent at this point in time with peace and equanimity and a partnership that I didn’t know I would ever get back to. I think it’s important for women to know, when they think, ‘Oh, I’ll never see that, I’ll never have that feeling, I’ll never be friends with this person again’ [that] time is the opportunity. Time is the opportunity to heal. Time is the opportunity to forgive, to move on and to find a new way to be friends.”

As the saying goes, time heals all wounds! Jennifer clearly knows that all too well!

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