Jennifer Garner's Candid Account Of Being Hounded By Paparazzi Branded 'Horrifying'

“This is in equal parts fascinating as it is terrifying...”

Jennifer Garner has shared an eye-opening account of what it’s like to be pursued by paparazzi photographers.

Speaking on Netflix’s Shut Up Evan podcast, Jennifer recalled what the intrusion into her life by the paparazzi was like at the height of her marriage to her ex-husband Ben Affleck.

“It was totally ludicrous,” she said. “It felt like ‘poor little me’, you know? ‘My poor little kids who have everything in the world’ – but it was a danger to everyone around us.”

She explained: “If I went through a yellow light, 15 cars would go through the red behind me. They would drive up onto people’s lawns, even on a hillside.

“We were trying to have our little one play soccer, and the association asked us to stop because there were 20 cars coming to try to [take photographs]. So, it wasn’t just about us. It was just an industry that had gotten out of control.”

“If you show up and you’re trying to get to the paediatrician and you have a sick kid on your shoulder and you’re scared, and you can’t get into the door because you’re blocked by photographers, there’s something wrong with that.”

Jennifer went on to say that “the kids were paying the price”, recalling that children were getting “knocked over coming out of pre-school, by photographers who were so hungry to get to me or to Ben” or “trying to get to our kids”.

“So, as much as I recognised that, you know, we are privileged and lucky and grateful to all that that has afforded us, and all that that’s........

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