Zach Baron of GQ interviews Ben Affleck about his life in the public eye:
GQ: One story I read this week, speaking of tabloids, was that the FBI visited your house.
Ben Affleck: Good example. As it turns out, the FBI did, in fact, visit my house. But this is pretty revealing, right? So I come home and I see there’s a story with sources that say, “Hey, the FBI was at your house.” I’m like, “Well, this is strange.” So I call them and say, “Hey, FBI, were you at my house? Do you want to talk to me?” “Oh, we don’t know.” I get transferred along. Finally somebody who is actually responsible for what was happening was like, “Oh, we had no idea that was your house.” There was a break-in of a federal official’s home in that area. So the FBI went around and whoever lived there, the FBI rang their bell, but because there are photographers sitting outside and these guys have their FBI jackets on, then it’s: The FBI has visited your house. Whoever wrote the story made up something about how it was related to an investigation about a drone that I guess did crash into one of the helicopters two or three miles up Mandeville Canyon. Turns out, no, it wasn’t about that. In fact, we were very far from where the drone was. So it’s like: You’ve seen this event about the FBI at my house. I had no idea. My only involvement was to track it down, figure it out.