Ben Affleck has made an interesting revelation about his son, Samuel Affleck. The actor and filmmaker recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. During the interview, he shared how his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, and his youngest child requested money for betting.
Ben Affleck talks about his son asking for money
In a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Ben Affleck opened up about how his 13-year-old son once asked him for money for sports betting. The “Gone Girl” star said, “My son asked me like a month ago, was like, ‘Hey, um, can I get like 100 bucks to bet on sports? ‘” He recalled how Samuel told him, “My friends get $100, but if they lose it, then that’s it.” The two-time Oscar winner also stated, “I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s a real standard, what discipline! Like, so that you don’t come twitching back going.”
Affleck added, “I know that Green Bay is going to cover the over in the second half.” The 53-year-old also explained how gambling was a part of his and his brother’s childhood. He shared, “My father worked at a bar, but mostly made his money sort of being a small-time bookie.” “I remember our first washing machine, our first VCR,” Affleck continued. The actor also remembered his “Dad coming home like, ‘You can thank Steve Grogan for this,’ the quarterback of the Patriots.”
He added, “Everybody keeps betting the Patriots to beat the spread.” Affleck noted, “And so I really was grateful that the Patriots were terrible—just thank Steve Grogan’s knees for our VCR.” Nevertheless, he exclaimed, “At the time, it was, like, shameful and kind of illegal. It was criminal, I mean, the statute of limitations has run out. Sorry, Dad!”
As such, Kimmel hilariously responded, “It wasn’t kind of illegal back then, it was flat-out illegal. It was very illegal. Everybody did it, but it was illegal.” Soon, Affleck clarified, “It was straight up illegal. It was criminal.” However, “it was like a thing that you had to be worried about, yeah.”
