public split in
June 2015],” an
insider tellsIn Touch
exclusively. Now the actress,
45, and theSNLproducer, 36, are
once again facing off now that Ben,
44,hassteppedoutpubliclywith
Lindsay. “Jen was inundated with
callsfromfriendsandfamilywarn-
ing her that photos of Ben and Lind-
saywereallovertheinternetafter
their July 6 dinner,” says the insider.
“She was livid and felt humiliated —
andwantedtoconfrontLindsay.”
Jen got her revenge when she
called Lindsay and unloaded on
her.“Jen already had her number
from when everything happened be-
fore,andthistimeshejustlaidinto
her, accusing Lindsay of breaking
upherfamilyandnowflauntingher
romance with Ben,” says the insider.
“Of course Jen blames Ben, too, but
shethinksitwasLindsay’sideato
come to LA knowing that she’d final-
ly be photographed with Ben and get
theirrelationshipoutintheopen.”
Lindsay was hardly rattled. “She
knowssheandBenaretogetherof-
ficiallynowandwasn’tfazedbywhat
Jenhadtosaytoher.”AsourcecloseHE COULDN’T
HELP
HIMSELF
“Ben’s affair
with Lindsay is
absolutely what led
to the divorce,”
says a source close
to the situation.Butthiswasntthescenefrom
theromanticheadline-making
dinner Ben and Lindsay shared
at Giorgio Baldi on July 6 — the
night they went public with their
“new” romance. The chemistry-
laden rendezvous that the eyewit-
ness details exclusively to In Touch
actually took place fi ve years ago at
the Lobby Lounge inside NYC’s Man-
darin Oriental Hotel. A source close
to Ben admits to In Touch, “Ben and
Lindsay may have hooked up in the
past.” Ben was sleeping at the Man-
darin Oriental hotel the night of that
late-night date, “and it seemed pretty
obvious he and Lindsay were hook-
ing up,” says the eyewitness. They
were clearly into each other in a way
that indicated an emotional connec-
tion — not the kind of thing any wife
would be happy with. And while the
world didn’t learn about their clan-
destine relationship at the time, one
person soon did: his wife, Jennifer
Garner. The devastating knowledge
led to a shocking showdown between
the women years ago. “Jen originally
confronted Lindsay in New York back
when she and Ben were still trying to
work on their marriage [ before theirwdown
the
r Woman
NGE
BenrevealedinMarchthat he’d
just completed treatment for
alcohol addiction — his second
rehab stint for alcohol — but that
didn’t stop him from sharing a
bottle of wine with Lindsay at
Giorgio Baldi on July 6. “Ben is
still partying a lot,” says a source.
“He seems to have never truly
gotten his act together.” His
sobriety remains a struggle, says a
source close to Jen: “Ben means
well when he goes into rehab. He
goes in with the intention to stop
drinking, but he has an addiction.
He goes for weeks without
touching booze, but then he will be
out having a good time and will
say one drink won’t hurt. He
always feels he can go back to
controlled drinking, but he ends up
back where he started.”FROM LEFT: ALAMY; BACKGRID; SPLASHBen’s
Drinking
Again