Ben Affleck admitted to getting into a ‘passive-aggressive rage’ in his previous relationships

Notoriously private actor Ben Affleck made some brutal remarks about why his romances usually end up failing in a 1999 interview.

The interview, which was published in Playboy magazine, is doing the rounds again amid Affleck’s divorce from wife of two years, Jennifer Lopez.

For months there had been rumors that their relationship was on the rocks, and Lopez went on to file for divorce last month.

The ‘Get On the Floor’ singer was quite open about her rekindled romance with Affleck when they got back together in 2021, and even released self-funded documentaries called The Greatest Love Story Never Told and This Is Me… Now: A Love Story which revealed a lot about the pair’s relationship.

Meanwhile, Affleck seldom lifted the lid on their marriage – apart from in an interview with Kevin Hart on his show Hart to Heart over the summer where he made some rare remarks about Lopez.

But his reserved approach to his private life is a far cry from his younger self, who was seemingly more candid about his romances.

A young Ben Affleck pictured in 1999 (Fotos International/Getty Images)

In the 1999 Playboy interview, Affleck shared why his relationships often fail and noted that they ‘never end well’.

“I think what happens is, I end up wanting to be out of the relationship,” the then 27-year-old shared.

“During the course of a relationship, if you get dissatisfied and unhappy and don’t say something, if you don’t deal with it right then, it just festers and stays there.

“So instead of saying, ‘Look, don’t do that, please don’t act this way,’ I go along with it until I just don’t want to be in the relationship at all.

“Then I create some incident or do something or just don’t call. And then she’s p*ssed.”

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck wed two years ago (Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

Affleck went on, as per MailOnline: “I can’t necessarily blame her at that point since I’ve developed such a passive-aggressive rage that I have no sympathy and tell her, ‘Well of course I didn’t call you. If you weren’t such a nagging, shrewish harpy I’d call you.'”

The Air star added that he was hoping that this was something he was ‘growing out of’, and he seemingly did so as in 2005, he wed 13 Going On 30 favorite Jennifer Garner.