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The British press, particularly lesser-know gossip rags, are notorious for making up quotes. There are two highly suspect recent quotes from celebrities that are being widely reported.

I don’t report stories I think are fake without some sort of disclaimer, and I haven’t covered these two because they seem completely fabricated to me.

Why are Renee Zellweger and Ben Affleck suddenly talking about their past relationship pain to a random British tabloid called Now? They’re not. These quotes are made up.

Affleck told Britain’s Now magazine: “I should never have got engaged and never gone down that route. I thought I wanted certain things, but I didn’t. I got lost and felt suffocated, miserable and gross. Being in the middle of a tabloid frenzy, it became so intense I had to stop and think, ‘What am I doing with my life?'”

The couple’s relationship was plagued by constant media attention and rumours of rows and the ‘Good Will Hunting’ star admits it was draining.
Affleck revealed: “I had to smile for the cameras, but I was really in turmoil. I was no longer in control of my life and I didn’t know which way to turn. I felt like a hamster in a cage. The faster my legs went, the less distance I seemed to travel.”

And here’s Renee Zellweger’s quote, from the same dubious source:

Speaking for the first time about her failed marriage, Zellweger tells the British magazine Now, “There was no alternative but to let it go.

“I made the biggest personal mistake of my life. I felt a fool.

“I was looking for something else. I just needed to put acting aside. I needed to sit still and not to worry about the dresses and the hair and the travel and the interviews.

“I was going through huge life changes at the time. I wanted to stop and be a girl for a while. My marriage came during this time and it was desperately important to me. I don’t want anyone to think I didn’t take it seriously.”

Zellweger admits Chesney did not approve when the actress invited her close friend to stay in their Hamptons, N.Y., farmhouse soon after their marriage.

She explains, “There was no acceptance of my life or my friends. My friend was pregnant, with her husband and young kid. She was doing up her house for the new baby.”

Zellweger and Affleck are notoriously tight-lipped and protective of their privacy. Affleck might have blabbed like this in the past, but he’s a family man now and has worked hard to stay out of the spotlight and rebuild his public image since the J.Lo fiasco. He wouldn’t bring it up like this, just like Zellweger wouldn’t remind the public of her failed four-month marriage.

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