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Ben Affleck says he has empathy for Britney Spears over 'collective cruelty' of paparazzi

Ben Affleck has 'empathy' for Britney Spears, having also dealt with intrusive paparazzi his whole professional life, slamming the system as an example of 'a kind of collective cruelty.'

Every time," the star of The Accountant 2 said on the April 24 episode of This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, addressing the"sad Affleck" memes that sprang from a set of 2020 pap shots, "The idea is, like, follow somebody around, antagonize them, and then hopefully they'll have like a nervous breakdown and go crazy on you, and then your video will be worth more money," Affleck explained. "I don't know her, but I do know that the cycle of having people harangue you and yell at you and hassle you and follow you, it kind of seemed like that itself was whipping up the whole thing into a tizzy."

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