Jennifer Garner and Scott Foley’s Relationship: Revisit Their Timeline, Cause of Split

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Jennifer Garner and Scott Foley’s Relationship: Revisit Their Timeline, Cause of Split

While Bennifer may be living like it's 2002 again, it’s safe to say fans will never say the same about exes Jennifer Garner and Scott Foley. “She played my girlfriend on Felicity. We met on the show and … we hit it off instantly and [we were] soon dating,” the Scandal star recalled of his first wife on SiriusXM's Radio Andy in September 2021. After two years of dating, the pair wed in 2000. After less than three years of marriage, however, Garner and Foley called it quits. The Alias star, who cited irreconcilable differences in their divorce papers, told InStyle at the time that the couple were ”victims of Hollywood." "Everything is speeded up here — it is a fast-lane life, and if something is not working, it is considered best to end it without much thought. If we lived where I was brought up [West Virginia], we would probably still be together,” she told the magazine at the time, calling their split “amicable.” Two years after their divorce was finalized, Foley got engaged to girlfriend Marika Domińczyk. The couple, who wed in 2007, share daughter Malina (born in 2009) and sons Keller (2012) and Konrad (2014). [jwplayer 2WwlDnpn-zhNYySv2] “[Jennifer and I] were together for a total of about five years. I say that — I downplay that because my wife, is right behind me,” Foley said during his aforementioned Radio Andy interview, joking about getting into “dangerous territory” while discussing his “short-lived marriage” to the Emmy nominee. Garner went on to marry Ben Affleck in 2005 when she was pregnant with their eldest daughter, Violet. The twosome also welcomed Seraphina in 2009 and Samuel in 2012. After a decade of marriage, Garner and Affleck announced their plans to separate. “I’m a pretty hard worker. It’s one of the pains in my life that something I believe in so strongly I’ve completely failed at twice,” the 13 Going on 30 star told Vanity Fair with “emotion in her voice,” per the magazine, in 2016. “You have to have two people to dance a marriage. My heart’s a little on the tender side right now, and it’s always easier to focus on the ways that you feel hurt, but I know that, with time and some perspective, I’ll have a clearer sense of where I let the system down, because there’s no way I get off in this.” Garner and Affleck finalized their divorce in 2018. She subsequently began an on-again, off-again relationship with businessman John Miller. After a series of romances and flings, Affleck, for his part, got back together with ex-fiancée Jennifer Lopez during the spring of 2021. Scroll through for more on Garner and Foley’s past relationship:

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Meeting on ‘Felicity’

The pair met in 1998 when Garner appeared on Foley’s hit WB show, which also starred Keri Russell and Scott Speedman.

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2000

The duo tied the knot in October 2000.

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Why They Split

After announcing their breakup in April 2003, divorce papers revealed that their date of separation was March 23, 2003, the same day Garner walked the Oscars red carpet without her then-spouse.

Garner was then linked to her Alias costar Michael Vartan. The pair denied that a third party was a reason for their split.

“Nobody else was involved,” Foley told TV Guide in October 2003, five months after they filed for divorce. “Jennifer became a huge celebrity. She became a huge star, and she deserved everything she got. There was no other relationship, there was no infidelity, nothing. People get divorced, you know? Through no one’s fault and everyone’s fault.”

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Wish She Waited

“Everyone reaches maturity at different times. I wish I’d known to wait for marriage until I was 30 or over; I did marry in my 20s and I found divorce a crushing experience,” Garner told The Sun in 2012 amid her marriage to Affleck. “I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me – I was beyond heartbroken when they did.”

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Looking Back

Garner reflected on their split again in 2013, telling Allure that Foley is a “great guy” but their marriage “imploded.” She explained: “We were full-on grown-ups, but looking back I’m aware we did not know what hit us.”

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Where They Stand in 2021

The Dawson’s Creek alum told Andy Cohen in September 2021 that he doesn't “search out” run-ins with Garner, but he doesn’t mind seeing her.

“You have to say hello. You’re very civil,” the actor explained. “I mean, we do not keep in contact because she has her own family. I have mine. … But I’ve seen her a few times — especially when we were living in L.A. — and Marika has been with me. You know, everybody says hi and you’re cordial and you move on. That’s life, right?”