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Ben Affleck has a few regrets. Divorcing his ex-wife Jennifer Garner is one. Not getting to direct his standalone Batman flick might be another.

The two-time Oscar winner is doing the press rounds for his upcoming movie, The Way Back, which casts him as a recovering addict who mounts a comeback by coaching the basketball team at his former high school.

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But in a new interview with the New York Times, Affleck, who has endured a very public struggle with alcoholism, was candid about his failures off the screen.

“The biggest regret of my life is this divorce,” he told the publication.

The Argo star wed Garner in 2005 and they share three children together. His alcohol abuse, he says, is partially to blame for the disintegration of his marriage.

“I drank relatively normally for a long time,” he said. “What happened was that I started drinking more and more when my marriage was falling apart. This was 2015, 2016. My drinking, of course, created more marital problems.”