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Yahoo
22-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Violet Affleck details heated argument with mom Jennifer Garner in hotel room
Violet Affleck knows how to capture a reader's attention. "I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mom in a hotel room," the Yale University freshman wrote in the opening lines of an academic paper published in the Global Health Review. The essay itself is dense and sophisticated, exploring parallels between public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies for confronting climate change. But tucked inside all that research is something more personal: a peek into the thoughts of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's eldest child. According to Violet, Garner was 'shell-shocked, astonished, at the scale of destruction' wrought by the wildfires in the neighborhood where she is raising her family. Garner, 53, and Affleck, who divorced in 2018, are also parents to Fin, 16, and Samuel, 13. 'I was surprised at her surprise: as a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of generation Z, my question had not been whether the Palisades would burn but when,' Violet wrote. The January, 2025 fires in the Los Angeles area killed at least 29 people and destroyed thousands of homes. Violet, a rising sophomore at Yale, recounted growing increasingly frustrated with other adults who dismissed the crisis as if it were merely a 'burst of bad luck.' 'It had come from a combination of high winds and low rains — what, my little brother asked, did global warming have to do with the speed of the wind?' Violet wrote. 'Hopefully, most of us understand the climate crisis better than my little brother," she later added. Violet's commitment to public health hasn't been confined to the classroom. In 2024, Violet delivered a passionate speech at a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting, pushing back against proposed mask bans in public spaces and healthcare settings. She spoke from personal experience, having dealt with a post-viral condition herself, and stressed how serious and long-lasting the effects of viral infections can be, especially for vulnerable communities. Violet also has a knack for language. When dad Ben Affleck appeared on TODAY in April, he described Violet as a "student of Spanish." He studied the subject at the University of Vermont. "She will tell me that hers is better than mine,' the actor told Savannah. 'And I'm glad that I get the chance to be on national television and just claim victory!'This article was originally published on
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Violet Affleck argues with mother Jennifer Garner about true cause of California wildfires
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter Violet Affleck went into detail this week about how she and her mother argued about the causes of the Los Angeles wildfires that destroyed their Pacific Palisades neighborhood in January. "I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room," the 19-year-old wrote in Yale's Global Health Review, where she is a student, in a piece published on Sunday titled: "A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles." Affleck continued of Garner, "She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised myself and my siblings. I was surprised at her surprise: as a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of generation Z, my question had not been whether the Palisades would burn but when." She wrote that while some people at the hotel saw the wildfires as a "burst of bad luck" that was a combination of high winds and little rain, she knew it was related to the "climate crisis." Jennifer Garner Seen Kissing Boyfriend John Miller As She Spends Time With Ben Affleck For Easter Along with Violet, Affleck and Garner, who divorced in 2018, also share Fin,16, and Samuel, 13. Read On The Fox News App Affleck compared people being forced to wear N95 masks because of poor air quality after the fires to the COVID-19 pandemic, writing that, like the health crisis, climate change will "soon become impossible for even society's most insulated to ignore." Like What You're Reading? Click Here For More Entertainment News She wrote about the "promised end to the pandemic has been more a matter of public relations than public health," adding that public health officials were soon forced to grapple with "ongoing waves of infection" even as the country came "out of the pandemic." Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck's Daughter Violet's Graduation Leaves Actress In Tears She also noted that coronavirus can be "a threat to even the healthiest individuals," specifying long COVID as an example. Last summer, the first-year college student, who often still wears masks, appeared at a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Meeting, speaking out against mask bans after Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she was looking at the legality of wearing masks at protests. Affleck wrote that despite the effectiveness of wearing masks, more proactive steps need to be taken to lower coronavirus infection risk, just like for climate change. Click Here To Sign Up For The Entertainment Newsletter "Though widespread N95 masking is indisputably the most effective tool for individuals to prevent COVID transmission, masking alone is both more resource-intensive and more reactive than collective interventions like paid sick leave for all workers, universal healthcare, and clean air standards requiring HEPA filtration and far-UVC light44 to kill airborne virus in public spaces," she argued. Ben Affleck Shuts Down Teenage Son's Request For $6K Shoes: 'I Have The Money, You're Broke' Affleck concluded her essay by saying, "In the same way that COVID-conscious and disabled people celebrate each chain of transmission broken, climate scientists recognize that each degree of warming we avoid will be a victory. It's time for everyone who cares about the latter to engage with the people, the methods, and the political commitments that make the former possible." Last spring, Garner shared several photos on Instagram of herself in tears during and after Violet's high school graduation. Violet is Garner and Affleck's oldest child. "Tell me you have a graduate without telling me you have a graduate," she wrote in the caption, adding in parentheses: "Bless our hearts." "How are we going to make it? What are we going to do?" Garner asked in one video taken on an airplane as she wiped away tears. Garner also told Southern Living in an interview last year that she has striven to raise her children to be humble despite being born into wealth. "It's really important for my kids to see that everyone doesn't have the lives they see in Los Angeles," she told the magazine. "That doesn't reflect the rest of the world. I want them to grow up with the Southern values I had—to look at people when they say hello and to stop and smell the roses. If I could do half as good a job as my mom did, I'd be pretty happy." Fox News Digital has reached out to a rep for Garner for article source: Violet Affleck argues with mother Jennifer Garner about true cause of California wildfires
Yahoo
21-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Violet Affleck reveals she and her mom, Jennifer Garner, had very different reactions to the Los Angeles wildfires
Violet Affleck has revealed something about her relationship with one of her famous parents as part of her college experience. The 19-year-old daughter of actors Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck is currently a freshman at Yale University. The younger Affleck recently published an academic research paper in the school's Global Health Review, titled 'A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles.' She began the paper by reflecting on an environmental disaster that she and Garner endured with many other Southern California residents, writing 'I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room.' 'She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised myself and my siblings,' Affleck wrote. 'I was surprised at her surprise: as a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of generation Z, my question had not been whether the Palisades would burn but when.' The Los Angeles wildfires at the beginning of the year resulted in the loss of thousands of homes and buildings, especially in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas. 'As I chatted with adults in the hotel where we'd gone to escape the smoke, though, I found my position to be an uncommon one: people spoke of how long rebuilding would take, how much it would cost, and how tragically odd the whole situation had been,' Affleck wrote. 'The crisis was acute, a burst of bad luck. It had come from a combination of high winds and low rains – what, my little brother asked, did global warming have to do with the speed of the wind?' she continued. 'Outside, people wandered, faces covered by N95s. 'This feels like COVID,' said one wild-eyed woman clutching two leashed Yorkies. 'We're all in masks.'' Affleck addressed air quality and health issues before. Last summer, the then 18-year-old spoke during the public comments portion of a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting and was seen making an impassioned plea in a video shared on X. 'I contracted a post-viral condition in 2019,' Affleck said at the meeting. 'I'm OK now, but I saw first-hand that medicine does not always have answers to the consequences of even minor viruses.' She went on to request 'mask availability, air filtration and far-UVC lights in government facilities, including jails and detention centers, and mask mandates in county medical facilities.' Affleck advocated for free testing and treatment opportunities, while adding 'most importantly the county must oppose mask bans for any reason.' 'They do not keep us safer, they make vulnerable members of our community less safe and make everyone less able to participate in Los Angeles together,' she concluded in her speech. Affleck is the eldest of three children of Garner and Ben Affleck, who married in 2005 and divorced in 2018. Their other children are Seraphina (who goes by Finn), 16 and Samuel, 13.
Buzz Feed
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Violet Affleck Recalls Arguing With Jennifer Garner
In the decade they were together, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner welcomed three children: Violet, Seraphina, and Samuel. With the exception of a few anecdotes every now and then, Ben and Jen are pretty private when it comes to their kids' lives. But now, with the trio all in their teens, we're beginning to learn more about their interests and aspirations. 'I'm okay now, but I saw first-hand that medicine does not always have answers to the consequences of even minor viruses,' the teen said at the time, calling for increased mask availability and more access to testing and medication. 'The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown that into sharper relief.' So, as part of her studies at Yale's Davenport College, Violet published an academic research paper in the university's Global Health Review on May 18. In the essay, titled 'A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles,' Violet recounts her personal experience living through the LA wildfires that caused devastation across the Pacific Palisades in January. She compares the similarities between the response to the wildfires and the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing that she and her mom, Jennifer, found themselves at odds over their conflicting reactions to the blaze. 'I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised myself and my siblings,' Violet begins, recalling that she was 'surprised' by her mom's surprise. 'As a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of generation Z, my question had not been whether the Palisades would burn but when.' Violet also mentions her 13-year-old brother, Sam, who she says was equally confused by the fires. 'The crisis was acute, a burst of bad luck. It had come from a combination of high winds and low rains,' she writes. 'What, my little brother asked, did global warming have to do with the speed of the wind?... Hopefully, most of us understand the climate crisis better than my little brother – we know, for instance, that it's existential and accelerating, meaning the danger to places like LA will only increase as the planet heats.' The essay is lengthy, but it's definitely worth reading. She concludes by examining how we can avoid future public health crises. 'In the same way that COVID-conscious and disabled people celebrate each chain of transmission broken, climate scientists recognize that each degree of warming we avoid will be a victory,' Violet writes. 'It's time for everyone who cares about the latter to engage with the people, the methods, and the political commitments that make the former possible.'
New York Post
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Violet Affleck details argument with ‘astonished' mom Jennifer Garner
Even Jennifer Garner fights with her kids. Garner, 53, and Ben Affleck's eldest daughter, Violet Affleck, 19, wrote an academic research paper in Yale University's Global Health Review where she detailed an argument she had with her mom over the destructive Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year. 'I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room,' Violet wrote. 7 Violet Affleck and Jennifer Garner at the White House in December 2022. Bloomberg via Getty Images Garner, according to Violet, 'was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised myself and my siblings.' 'I was surprised at her surprise: as a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of generation Z, my question had not been whether the Palisades would burn but when,' Violet added. 7 Jennifer Garner with her daughter Violet out in Los Angeles in May 2024. GC Images 7 A fire fighting helicopter drops water on the Palisades fire in January 2025. AFP via Getty Images Violet said that her younger brother, Samuel, 13, had doubts that there was a connection between the wildfires and climate change. 'What did global warming have to do with the speed of the wind?' Violet recalled Samuel asking her. 'Hopefully, most of us understand the climate crisis better than my little brother,' she added. 7 Jennifer Garner with her three children in 2018. Getty Images The teenager, who is a freshman at Yale and is outspoken about public health, went on to write that had an 'uncommon' opinion about the fires compared to other wealthy Pacific Palisades residents. 'As I chatted with adults in the hotel where we'd gone to escape the smoke, though, I found my position to be an uncommon one: people spoke of how long rebuilding would take, how much it would cost, and how tragically odd the whole situation had been,' she said. 7 Violet Affleck and Jennifer Garner in Los Angeles on May 18, 2024. GC Images Violet also argued that climate change is an 'existential and accelerating' crisis. 'Our bewildered response to crises like the LA fires tell us we may still be accustomed to addressing the climate crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic: as a question of how fast we can get back around to pretending like the problem is gone,' she wrote. Last year, Violet spoke in front of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and made a plea for mask mandates in LA hospitals. 7 Ben Affleck and his daughter Violet Affleck arrive at a 4th of July party in the Hamptons in 2023. Elder Ordonez / She also revealed that she 'contracted a post-viral condition in 2019' which sparked her passion for public health advocacy. 'I'm OK now,' Violet said, 'but I saw firsthand that medicine does not always have answers to the consequences of even minor viruses.' Garner and Ben, 52, are also parents to Seraphina, 16. The exes were married from 2005 to 2015. 7 Jennifer Garner talking about the LA wildfires on TV in January 2025. MSNBC During the wildfires crisis, Garner volunteered with the World Central Kitchen and revealed that a friend who she knew through church died in the blaze. 'I feel almost guilty walking through my house,' the 'Elektra' actress said.
