United Kingdom, Jan. 8 -- Jennifer Garner has reflected on her "hard" divorce from Ben Affleck.

The Last Thing He Told Me actress split from the 53-year-old actor-and-director - with whom she has children Violet, 20, Seraphina, 16, and 13-year-old Samuel - in 2015 after a decade of marriage and she admitted she "could not handle" the gossip and speculation about her personal life because she was struggling with the loss of a "true partnership".

She told Britain's Marie Claire magazine: "It doesn't serve me to take in gossip about myself or anyone else, much less my kids, so I don't do it.

"You have to be smart about what you can and can't handle, and I could not handle what was out there.

"But what was out there was not what was hard....