Ben Affleck is finally talking about that FBI visit at his house earlier this year! Turns out he was as shocked and confused as everyone else!
In case you don’t remember, the Federal Bureau of Investigation stopped by the actor’s house in January right after the LA wildfires, leading to some wild rumors. No one knew what was going on, and that apparently included Ben!
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We got some pretty quick speculation that the FBI weren’t actually after Jennifer Lopez‘s ex — they were just in the area due to another issue. They were allegedly looking for the owner of a drone that ran into a plane helping put out the Pacific Palisades fire. But that’s not even the truth!
In his new wide-ranging interview with GQ, the 52-year-old said he actually didn’t know about the FBI visit until it hit social media:
“As it turns out, the FBI did, in fact, visit my house. But this is pretty revealing, right? So I come home and I see there’s a story with sources that say, ‘Hey, the FBI was at your house.’ I’m like, ‘Well, this is strange.'”
He had to do some digging of his own — but it wasn’t easy!
“So I call them and say, ‘Hey, FBI, were you at my house? Do you want to talk to me?’ ‘Oh, we don’t know.’ I get transferred along. Finally somebody who is actually responsible for what was happening was like, ‘Oh, we had no idea that was your house’.”
Crazy!!
A very high-profile home to be snooping around without even knowing it! Ben went on to explain the actual situation and what the officers were really looking for, as it was explained to him:
“There was a break-in of a federal official’s home in that area. So the FBI went around and whoever lived there, the FBI rang their bell, but because there are photographers sitting outside and these guys have their FBI jackets on, then it’s: The FBI has visited your house. Whoever wrote the story made up something about how it was related to an investigation about a drone that I guess did crash into one of the helicopters two or three miles up Mandeville Canyon. Turns out, no, it wasn’t about that. In fact, we were very far from where the drone was. So it’s like: You’ve seen this event about the FBI at my house. I had no idea. My only involvement was to track it down, figure it out.”
What a wild story to see about yourself! Imagine opening up social media to see the FBI is at your home when you’re not even there.
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