Ben Affleck's 13-year-old son asked him for money to bet on sports
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Ben Affleck shares how his father worked as a bookie and his son now wants to start sports betting, joking there's a reason his grandfather is broke.
Lori Bashian is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital.
"My son asked me like a month ago, [he] was like, ‘Hey, um, can I get like 100 bucks to bet on sports?’" Affleck shared. "It’s like, what? [He’s like,] ‘My friends get $100, but if they lose it, then that’s it.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s a real standard, what discipline! Like, so that you don’t come twitching back going, ‘I know that Green Bay is going to cover the over in the second half.’"
Earlier in the interview, Affleck shared that his father also had a special interest in gambling, revealing that while his father "worked at a bar mostly," he made a lot of "his money sort of being a small-time bookie."
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