Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck divorce news: Couple could be calling off their divorce
Despite having been separated for more than a year now, it appears that "Miracles from Heaven" actress Jennifer Garner and "Justice League" actor Ben Affleck may be headed for a reconciliation.
The former couple, who were married in 2005 and had three children together, announced their separation in June 2015. However, reports indicate that neither Garner nor Affleck have filed any divorce papers, suggesting that neither is ready to make their separation official.
According to Entertainment Tonight, while Garner and Affleck are separated, they continue to live in the same house. "He still lives on the property in Brentwood, California, but in separate living quarters," a source told the outlet. In addition, the two are regularly snapped together on errands, bringing their children to school, or taking strolls around their neighborhood. They also regularly go to church as a family. "They sat very close to each other," an eyewitness recently told ET about the pair. "There wasn't any distance between them," the source added.
ET noted that Garner and Affleck even voted together last Tuesday and were photographed at a polling place near their home.
In October, In Touch claimed that Ben's mother, Chris, pleaded with Garner to stop the couple's divorce from moving forward and to give her son another chance. Her mother-in-law's request reportedly gave Garner pause. "Jen is torn and doesn't know what to do," a source allegedly told the publication.
Chris' plea was supposedly based on her worries over Ben's emotional well-being. According to In Touch, his mother feared that Affleck would "go off the rails" without his family and that he would fall into a "cycle of partying and boozing" if the divorce pushed through.
Shortly after Garner and Affleck announced their plans to divorce in 2015, rumors began swirling that it was Affleck's dalliance with the family nanny, Christine Ouzounian, that prompted his and his wife's separation.
Garner cleared up this rumor with Vanity Fair earlier this year, saying, "We had been separated for months before I ever heard about the nanny. She had nothing to do with our decision to divorce. She was not a part of the equation."