Ben Affleck Was Held at Knifepoint at 14. His Attacker Later Killed Someone with a Knife

The two-time Oscar winner shared the shocking revelation on Kerry Washington’s ‘Street You Grew Up On’ podcast on Wednesday, Sept. 30

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• On the Sept. 30 episode of Kerry Washington’s Street You Grew Up On, Ben Affleck said recognizing older boys from baseball helped him escape being robbed
• He also shared his experience growing up in a working-class neighborhood where violence felt familiar
• “I was scared,” Affleck admitted

Long before Ben Affleck was fighting crime in Gotham City, he narrowly escaped an attack by a neighborhood kid...

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