After Admitting He Feels Like A “Poster Child” For “Actor Alcoholism,” Ben Affleck Explained Why He Wishes He’d Kept His Sobriety “Anonymous”

“I didn’t have any ambitions to be the national spokesman for recovering alcoholics,” he said. “And not because I have any shame with it or anything. I just find that, I’ve been sober for more than five years, it’s just not something that is at the forefront of my mind. It’s not the central preoccupation of my life.” Ben has talked openly about his alcoholism, but, as is the case for many celebrities, it wasn’t his choice to have the world let in on his personal struggles. In light of this, he said: “If I could have, I would’ve kept the fact that I’m sober anonymous.”