Ben Affleck recalls horrid experience with Marijuana: ‘The dice were loaded’Posted by On

Ben Affleck recently sat down for a candid discussion recalling his “bad experience” with marijuana back when he was a teenager.

He spoke about his issues during an interview with Vanity Fair and began by saying, “I had a bad experience with marijuana at 15 — I had a dissociative panic attack. So I only smoked weed if everyone else was smoking, and I had to sort of Bill-Clinton it and fake it. I didn’t really like marijuana.

“I wasn’t a very heavy drinker then. I became an alcoholic much, much later and I’m in recovery now, so that was a whole different time. I was a little nervous, like, ‘Should we be drinking before we’re working tomorrow?’ Some people were actually drinking and stoned at work.”

“For me, it was a two-pronged thing. I have a genetic component. Two of my grandparents were alcoholics. So it seemed like statistically, the dice were kind of loaded.”

He added, “When my life got stressful, which principally had to do with the disappointment and the pain that the divorce caused my children, that affected me profoundly. I didn’t want to see them hurt. I found myself drinking more and more at night at home by myself. It was something I was doing to avoid dealing with painful feelings. My parents got divorced when I was young. I know how painful that is.”

“I’ve experienced depression and anxiety. The psychological issues are not as well…

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