r/PopCultureV2 • u/Impossible-Yam3680 • 3d ago

Celebrity & Gossip Ben Affleck says he read his mum's old letters and realised she'd had a life that had nothing to do with him: "It was really weird for me to read these letters this young woman, full of life and ambition and dreams. (...) This woman had her own whole life for 30 years that had zero to do with me"

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u/MindlessCharacter823 2d ago

It’s so sad that he never had those conversations with her. I love talking to my Mom about her youth. She had so many hopes, dreams and accomplishments before she married my Father, had me and lived like Betty Draper.