Divorce Over! Ben Affleck Calls Jennifer Garner His 'Wife' Amid Reconciliation Rumors!

Ben Affleck didn’t just go on a rant on Bill Simmon’s new HBO show, Any Given Wednesday, he spilled some seriously personal news about the status of his marriage of Jennifer Garner!

The Boston native first defended his beloved New England Patriots football and their leader Tom Brady in an expletive-filled speech about “Deflatgate.”

Then he reminisced about his days dating Jennifer Lopez and how badly their breakup affected his career.

"If you went by what people said...I wasn't cool and I wasn't talented, and I was like the lowest rung of cool and talented that you could possibly be in the public consciousness at that time," he admitted.

But out of the negativity he found his passion for directing. "That was where I found myself when I thought, 'Hey, I want to take up directing,' which is for people that are taken seriously," Ben told Bill. "That became my mantra--I'm just going to work harder than everybody else."

But if it weren’t for the support of his current spouse, Ben wouldn’t have been able to accomplish his dream. "My wife was really instrumental and helpful in me doing a lot of that work," explained Ben, "because I was just so focused on it and it was harder to balance family and all that."