Washington DC, Jan. 8 -- Actor Jennifer Garner has spoken candidly about her divorce from actor Ben Affleck, describing the separation as "hard" and reflecting on the emotional toll of losing a partnership and breaking up a family, according to E! News.

In a recent interview, the 53-year-old actress looked back on her 2015 split from Affleck, which was legally finalised in 2018, and said public attention was not the most difficult part of the process.

"You have to be smart about what you can and can't handle, and I could not handle what was out there," Garner said, gesturing to the distance. "But what was out there was not what was hard," as quoted by E! News.

She explained, "The fact of it is what was hard. The actual breaking up of a...