Ben Affleck's harsh warning to daughter Violet revealed - as 18-year-old struggles to deal with 'ridicule' over her fervent pro-mask speech

Ben Affleck has told his girl that she needs to beryllium 'realistic' astir her campaigning and can't trust connected his personage position aft nan 18-year-old was near 'extremely disheartened' by nan consequence to her reside connected disguise mandates.

Violet Affleck called for an extremity to each 'mask bans' successful aesculapian accommodation and authorities buildings during an impassioned plea to nan governing assemblage for Los Angeles County past week, successful which she elaborate her acquisition of contracting 'a post-viral condition' successful 2019.

Unsurprisingly, her unexpected speech, which clocked successful astatine conscionable nether 1 minute, proved divisive, pinch immoderate hailing her 'courageous,' while others branded her 'utterly deluded.'

Violet, nan eldest girl of Ben, 51, and his ex-wife Jennifer Garner, 52, is said to beryllium struggling pinch nan 'ridicule' and has been near emotion 'alone' successful her conflict to fortify pandemic-era protections.

'While Ben and Jen will ever support their daughter, Ben had a speech pinch her and told her that she needs to beryllium realistic pinch this because he doesn't want her to discarded each of her clip putting effort into thing that astir apt won't make a quality successful nan agelong run,' an insider told DailyMail.com.

'He knows really powerfully she feels astir this, but now that Violet is an adult, he felt that it was his work to fto her cognize that she is David fighting Goliath and that astir group unluckily do not consciousness nan aforesaid measurement she does astir this.

'He was besides concerned that Violet felt arsenic if her parent's prima powerfulness was going to beryllium capable to guarantee her nan result that she wanted which, successful this case, it is not.'

During her speech, Violet urged nan committee 'to face nan agelong COVID crisis' by strengthening protections, offering high-quality tests and opposing a prohibition connected masks.

'I request disguise availability, aerial filtration and Far-UVC ray successful authorities facilitates, including jails and detention centers, and disguise mandates successful region aesculapian faculties,' she said.

'You must grow nan readiness of high-quality free tests and treatment, and astir importantly nan region must reason disguise bans for immoderate reason.

'They do not support america safer. They make susceptible members of our organization little safe and make everyone little capable to participate successful Los Angeles together.'

Videos of nan reside were flooded pinch comments condemning her advocacy, pinch 1 personification writing: 'This woman doesn't cognize WTF she's talking about! Ignorance. So sad.'

Another commented: 'This is what mania looks like.'

Others hailed her a savior pinch nan teen quickly heralded arsenic nan sound of defense for agelong Covid sufferers aliases nan immunocompromised.

'Violet is simply a hero,' declared 1 personification connected Reddit. 'You spell girl!'

Another wrote: 'You are a earthy calved leader and a immense inspiration to nan covid alert community. Keep being nan top personification successful beingness and fighting for our rights.'

Violet – who precocious graduated from precocious schoolhouse – is now looking to propulsion backmost from pushing nan pleas further.

'Violet is highly disheartened and feels that her plea did thing much than to group her up for further ridicule,' nan insider continued. 'She believes that her plea for disguise mandates fell connected deaf ears because it isn't moreover being considered.

'She stopped reference nan critique and, while she is proud of her bravery successful doing this, she sees nary constituent successful pushing nan letter cover moreover further.

'It is clear to her and to those astir her that she is beautiful overmuch unsocial connected this one.'

Ben and Jennifer laid down strict guidelines up of her speech, demanding that she thoroughly amended herself connected nan taxable and hold until she was 18, insiders antecedently told DailyMail.com.

Her disguise wearing had go a basking taxable of speech online pinch neither Violet aliases her parents antecedently addressing it publicly.

She was notably seen wearing a disguise astatine Michael Rubin's White Party successful 2023 and much precocious while attending a Broadway show pinch Ben and her stepmom Jennifer Lopez.

She appeared to make a motion to her information successful May 2024 erstwhile she was pictured wearing a disguise and carrying Steven Thrasher's award-winning 2022 book, The Viral Underclass while spending clip pinch her mom.

But conscionable days aft her passionate plea, she was spotted without nan disguise during a time retired pinch Lopez successful nan Hamptons.

The teen whipped disconnected nan protective look covering arsenic she browsed nan East Hampton Antiques & Design Show pinch a friend successful tow, and was sat unmasked wrong a marquee filled pinch people.

Violet's siblings Fin, formerly Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12, person not been pictured wearing masks.

Jennifer and Ben announced their separation successful 2015 aft astir 10 years of marriage, and officially revenge for divorcement successful 2017.

Jennifer has since moved connected pinch businessman John Miller, while Ben rekindled his romance pinch Lopez successful April 2021 earlier tying nan knot successful July 2022.

But their matrimony has been plagued by divided claims for nan past 2 months, pinch nan stars nary longer surviving together.