Ben Affleck reveals true feelings about Britney Spears

Ben Affleck opened up about the time he felt bad for the Toxic singer, Britney Spears, even though he wasn’t fully sure of what she was going through.

The Good Will Hunting star explained that his feelings came from an experience many celebrities face at some point in their careers: being constantly harassed by the paparazzi.

“A long time ago, years and years ago, I really had a lot of empathy for Britney Spears,” Ben stated on the podcast This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von.

He went to say that it “seemed” like the photographers were following her around during a time when she might have been going through something tough.

Ben, 52, continued telling host Theo, 45, that he wasn’t sure if Britney, 43, was actually having trouble with the paparazzi or not.

“I don’t know because I don’t know her,” he began, before adding, “But I do know that the cycle of having people harangue you and yell at you and hassle you and follow you. It seemed like that itself was kind of whipping up the whole thing into a tizzy.”

The Gone Girl actor called it “collective cruelty” and also added an analogy, “the image that you see are the people around waving the stick at the tiger or poking on it.”

“All you see is the growling animal,” the Academy Award winner said, referring to the fed-up celebrities being photographed as violent individuals, without the context of the paparazzi harassing them first.

Notably, the Argo director did not explicitly declare which incident he was referring to.

Has Britney Spears ever talked about Ben Affleck?

Yes, the Overprotected singer, Britney Spears dished in a now-deleted Instagram post that she had allegedly “made out” with Ben, after calling him an “amazing actor.”

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