{"id":73511,"date":"2025-05-08T03:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=73511"},"modified":"2025-05-31T03:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T07:21:14","slug":"ben-affleck-opened-up-about-sympathizing-with-britney-spears-over-harassment-by-paparazzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/ben-affleck-opened-up-about-sympathizing-with-britney-spears-over-harassment-by-paparazzi\/73511\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck opened up about sympathizing with Britney Spears over harassment by Paparazzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"495\">While promoting <em data-start=\"231\" data-end=\"249\">The Accountant 2<\/em> on Theo Von\u2019s podcast, Ben Affleck opened up about his sympathy for Britney Spears during her darkest moments. Affleck recalled witnessing the intense paparazzi harassment Spears faced early in her career, which contributed to her 2007 meltdown.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"497\" data-end=\"808\">Affleck said, \u201cYears ago, I really had a lot of empathy for Britney Spears,\u201d acknowledging how the relentless media pressure seemed to exacerbate her struggles. Though he doesn\u2019t know Spears personally, Affleck understood how the constant yelling and following by photographers could \u201cwhip things into a tizzy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"1076\">He described this as a form of \u201ccollective cruelty,\u201d likening the media to people \u201cwaving the stick at the tiger,\u201d provoking celebrities until they react. Affleck noted that many times stars appear annoyed because they\u2019re simply being poked and prodded relentlessly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1078\" data-end=\"1205\">Currently, Affleck is gearing up to reprise his role as Christian Wolff in <em data-start=\"1153\" data-end=\"1171\">The Accountant 2<\/em>, starring alongside Jon Bernthal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While promoting The Accountant 2 on Theo Von\u2019s podcast, Ben Affleck opened up about his sympathy for Britney Spears during\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":73512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1876],"class_list":["post-73511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-ben-affleck"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}