Stunned Ben Affleck reveals son Samuel, 13, asked him for sports betting money

Ben Affleck was flabbergasted.

The character revealed during his caller quality connected “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that his 13-year-old son, Samuel, had asked him for money to stake connected sports.

“My boy asked maine for illustration a period ago, [he] was like, ‘Hey, um, tin I get for illustration 100 bucks to stake connected sports?’” he told Kimmel.

“It’s like, what? [He’s like,] ‘My friends get $100, but if they suffer it, past that’s it.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s a existent standard, what discipline! Like, truthful that you don’t travel twitching backmost going, ‘I cognize that Green Bay is going to screen nan complete successful nan 2nd half.’”

His confession came aft he admitted that his dad, Timothy Byers Affleck, was a bookie erstwhile he was younger.

“My begetter worked astatine a barroom but mostly made his money benignant of being a small-time bookie,” nan “Gone Girl” character said.

“I retrieve our first washing machine, our first VCR, successful fact, dada coming location like, ‘You tin convey Steve Grogan for this,’ nan backmost of nan [New England] Patriots. ‘Everybody keeps betting [on] nan Patriots to hit nan spread.’ And truthful I really was grateful that nan Patriots were terrible; conscionable convey Steve Grogan’s knees for our VCR.

“At nan time, it was, like, shameful and benignant of illegal. I mean, nan statute of limitations has tally out. Sorry, dad,” Ben added.

After coming from humble beginnings, nan multimillionaire has attempted to raise his children — Violet, Seraphina and Samuel — pinch ex-wife Jennifer Garner reasonably down-to-earth.

In fact, almost a twelvemonth ago, nan “Rip” character was caught squirming erstwhile his boy asked him for a $6,000 brace of Dior Air Jordan 1 sneakers.

“You for illustration those because they’re expensive,” he told nan teen, who past replied, “No, they’re tough! I’ve ever said they look good!”

Although Ben agreed that nan brace was very nice, he told Samuel that he had to mow “a batch of lawns” to spend them.

Shortly after, Ben explained to Jenna Bush Hager connected nan “Today” show that he wants their kids to study nan worth of difficult work.

“You emotion your kids. You want to springiness them everything and do everything for them,” he said, saying that he believes “you do [kids] a disservice” by not school them “you person to work” for what they want.

In fact, he wants to instill successful them that, to get what they want, they request to activity hard.

“I’m like, ‘Well, if you want that, you tin activity 1,000 hours.’ You cognize what I mean? Minimum wage. And erstwhile you activity 1,000 hours, you whitethorn not want to walk that connected a brace of sneakers,” he explained.

At nan time, he besides revealed that Violet, 20, and Seraphina, 17, person already picked up respective jobs.