Violet Affleck reveals she and her mom, Jennifer Garner, had very different reactions to the Los Angeles wildfires | CNN

Violet Affleck and Jennifer Garner in 2022. CNN — Violet Affleck has revealed something about her relationship with one of her famous parents as part of her college experience. The 19-year-old daughter of actors Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck is currently a freshman at Yale University. The younger Affleck recently published an academic research paper in the school’s Global Health Review, titled “A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles.” She began the paper by reflecting on an environmental disaster that she and Garner endured with many other Southern California residents, writing “I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room.” “She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised myself and my siblings,” Affleck wrote. “I was surprised at her surprise: as a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of generation Z, my question had not been whether the Palis...