Jennifer Garner source: ‘her kids may have to deal with this for the rest of their lives’

As you know if you’ve been keeping up with this sad, cliched saga, Ben Affleck is paying for his lover, his children’s former nanny, to stay at the Hotel Bel Air with her friends. (Either he’s footing the bill or he gave her enough money to do this, it’s unclear. Sources close to him tell US he’s “absolutely not paying” for her to stay there.) It’s thought that the nanny, Christine Ouzounian, is threatening a lawsuit against Jennifer Garner for wrongful termination. There are also rumors that Ouzounian may have intimate photos of Affleck and/or that she has damning information about him. She’s likely holding something over his head as she’s giving lame sourced quotes to the press while posing for bikini photos. There’s another rumor that Ouzounian has been trying to get pregnant by Affleck. I just hope that’s either untrue or she hasn’t been successful. Oh and The NY Daily News has a bunch of quotes about how awesome she is and how she thinks Ben is going to marry her. Good luck with that.

The last we heard from Ben’s side, his defense was laughably that his wife had “nitpicked” him and made him feel like he was an inadequate husband. Considering that he was sleeping with randoms, drinking and gambling heavily and spending large chunks of time away from home, he was inadequate. Ben is currently in Georgia at his 16 million, two-mansion, 50 acre compound on an exclusive island where he just threw a party for 35 people, catered by a local barbecue joint.

Yesterday we covered those updates, along with the details from the People story chronicling Jennifer Garner’s heartbreak. Today we’ll go over some of the new information from US Magazine’s cover story about how Jennifer found out about the affair and is fighting back. I found US’s coverage to be the most realistic in that it brings home what a betrayal this was by Affleck, not just to his wife but to his three kids too. Sleeping with the nanny is one thing, but these people are massively famous. All of this is going to be public knowledge indefinitely. Here are the details from US’s print edition (the header titles are mine):

Garner isn’t letting Affleck stay in the guest house
“With everything that’s happened, she’s no longer pursuing that.”

Garner is worried that the kids will be affected
“The idea that her kids may have to deal with this for the rest of their lives is something she is having a lot of trouble with.”

To Garner, his actions are inexcusable. Says a source: “Her level of anger has skyrocketed.”

How Garner got wise to the cheating
She’d heard rumblings that while she was in and out of town filming her comedy Nine Lives in Montreal in June, her estranged husband and the babysitter were planning outings together without the kids. “She didn’t know anything was going on,” says the close insider, “but she suspected it.”

Ouzounian was one of two nannies invited to the Bahamas
Despite her doubts, she invited Ouzounian on the family’s late-June trip to the Bahamas… Garner invited Ouzounian to tag along with another nanny “because one of her sisters lives there… Jen said ‘You can work and see your sister at the same time.’”

Ouzounian was alone with Affleck for five days in the Bahamas
But Ouzounian was mostly interested in seeing Affleck. While she and the other nanny flew with the actor and his kids to the family’s private home… Garner was tied up with filming in Montreal – and an unplanned trip to Boston to visit her ailing mother, Patricia, in the hospital.

Garner came to the Bahamas, then sent Ouzounian home for being emotional
When Garner finally arrived June 25 she sensed something was off. “Christine was acting emotional,” says the close insider. She told Garner she was struggling with a recent split from her ex-fiance, who lives in the Bahamas… “Jen said, ‘You can’t be around my kids like this. Please go home.’”

Ouzounian went back with Affleck but stayed in Vegas with him
A gracious Affleck offered to give her a lift on his private jet the next day. The plan… was for gambling buff Affleck to fly to Las Vegas for a charity poker tournament and Ouzounian to continue on to LA, but the plane remained grounded in Sin City…

Garner found out and fired Ouzounian, kicked Affleck out
By the time Affleck landed back in the Bahamas June 29, Garner had heard about the trip and pieced everything together, says the insider. “She knew, and Ben knew that she did… There wasn’t an ‘I know what you did’ discussion. It didn’t need to be said.’”

Instead, Garner took action. She sent a letter to Ouzounian July 1 letting her know she’d been fired, says the insider, and sent Affleck packing two days later. “Jen was upset, but she handled it. She got rid of Christine and that was that.”

Affleck is begging Garner to deny his relationship with the nanny
He has texted and phoned Garner countless times. “Ben wants Jen to deny his relationship with Christine… At this point, she wants nothing to do with Ben… She will facilitate him seeing the kids, but other than that, she is finished. What happened with Christine is the ultimate betrayal.”

[From US Magazine, print edition, August 17, 2015]

I have to admit, this story was powerful and put me firmly in camp Garner. (Please get the print edition of US for more. I really couldn’t do it it justice here, and there are even more details.) I was already on Garner’s side, but I didn’t know that Garner had just been to visit her mom in the hospital or that she had let the nanny come to the Bahamas because Ouzounian had a sister there. This was the ultimate passive aggressive move by Affleck. Yes this person is a fameho and likely targeted him, but he could have realized that this would devastate his wife and kids. He can get random tail at any time, he doesn’t have to go so close to home. Instead, he was so desperate to escape from his situation that he banged his kids’ nanny and probably set it up so his wife would find out. She did, and she finally put her foot down. Good for her.

The Daily Mail has new photos of Jennifer Garner on set. She looks really worn and tired, but she’s also filming so maybe it’s for her role.

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