Ben Affleck’s Near-Robbery Took a Dark Turn Years Later
The actor said one attacker later killed a person and went to prison for 20 years after the teenage mugging.
- On Wednesday, actor-director Ben Affleck revealed he was robbed at knifepoint as a 14-year-old while walking home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during an appearance on Kerry Washington's podcast.
- Growing up on Cottage Street, Affleck described his childhood neighborhood as a 'working class' area where 'poor people sort of like, feeling like they were fighting it out.'
- Recognizing the assailants as older boys he knew from baseball, Affleck initially tried to 'play it cool' and felt he was 'off the hook' when they approached him.
- The 54-year-old revealed that the attacker committed a fatal stabbing three or four years later and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
- Affleck and Washington are promoting their new crime thriller, Animals, which releases in select theaters and via Netflix on October 9.
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Ben Affleck Reveals Chilling Aftermath Of Teen Knifepoint Robbery
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Ben Affleck’s Near-Robbery Took a Dark Turn Years Later
Photo credits: Kerry Washington and Simpson Street via YouTube Ben Affleck once escaped a terrifying teenage mugging after recognizing the boys holding him at knifepoint. Years later, he learned one of those boys had killed someone and served 20 years in prison. The actor recently revisited the encounter while reflecting on his childhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What began as a frightening walk home eventually became a memory that followed h…
The actor has remembered how two young men threatened him with a knife when he returned from high school and the turn of the situation when they discovered that they knew each other.
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The US actor remembers a confrontation in his hometown Cambridge and reflects on his youth.
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