Ben Affleck is sharing his side of the story. 

Over three months after the Good Will Hunting star and Jennifer Lopez finalized their divorce, he addressed the end of their two-year marriage—which followed an engagement in the mid-aughts before a breakup until 2021.  

“There’s a tendency to look at breakups and want to identify root causes or something,” Ben explained to GQ in an interview published March 25. “The truth is much more quotidian than probably people would believe or would be interesting.”

And while he acquiesced that he and the Maid in Manhattan star had some fundamental differences in their approach to fame, he emphasized of their breakup, “There’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue.”

The 52-year-old—who shares kids Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 13, with ex Jennifer Garner—also added context to a widely circulated clip from Jennifer’s The Greatest Love Story Never Told, where he briefly compared their different perspectives on celebrity life saying, “you don’t marry a ship captain and say you don’t like water.”