Redeem now - Ben Affleck is responding to the "Sad Affleck" memes from this year's Grammys.
- He told The Hollywood Reporter he tried to get out of being in the comedy bit host Trevor Noah did.
- He said he told Lopez he was going to get out of the shot and his wife told him, 'You better fucking not leave.'"
Ben Affleck is setting the record straight about those "Sad Affleck" memes that went around after he and his wife Jennifer Lopez attended this year's Grammy Awards in February.
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in."I had a good time at the Grammys," he told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview pegged to his upcoming movie, "Air," which opens in April.
"My wife was going, and I thought, 'Well, there'll be good music. It might be fun," he continued.
However, he said when host Trevor Noah came to their table, he had a feeling a comedy bit was coming. He tried to escape as he didn't want to be a part of it.
"I was like, 'Oh, God,'" Affleck recalled. "They were framing us in this shot, but I didn't know they were rolling."
"I leaned into her and I was like, 'As soon they start rolling, I'm going to slide away from you and leave you sitting next to Trevor,'" Affleck said he told Lopez. "She goes, 'You better fucking not leave.' That's a husband-and-wife thing."
So Affleck stuck it out with his wife, though it looked like he wasn't having a good time.
That moment, along with his bored reaction to performances through the night, led to the Oscar winner going viral.
There were even some people online who commented that Affleck seemed intoxicated, which the star took offense to, seeing as he's struggled with alcoholism in the past.
"They were like, 'He's drunk,'" Affleck said. "And I thought, that's interesting. That raises a whole other thing about whether or not it's wise to acknowledge addiction because there's a lot of compassion, but there is still a tremendous stigma, which is often quite inhibiting. I do think it disincentives people from making their lives better."
Despite the camera capturing Affleck seemingly uninterested in being at the Grammys, TikToker @AlmostAnna, who sat beside the two for a portion of the evening, said they were "super lovey-dovey" with each other.
"Like their hands were always intertwined…it wasn't like, 'Oh my God, this is going to lead to divorce.' They were cute," she said in a TikTok post.
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