Ben Affleck politely denied ever meeting “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Lisa Barlow despite her previous claim that a work obligation with him was keeping her from filming some of the Bravo show this season.
The “Gone Girl” star was put on the spot in his Access Hollywood interview, which was posted on Friday.
“It’s ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.’ Cast member Lisa Barlow is saying that she was with you at an event with her husband and she wasn’t able to film. The cast members don’t believe her. So the question is, do you know who Lisa Barlow is?” the interviewer asked the actor as he promoted his new film with Matt Damon, “The Rip.”
Affleck immediately responded with confusion, but said that he doesn’t “want to get anybody in trouble.”
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“I don’t know what this is – an event in Salt Lake City? Like, prove somebody right or wrong?” he asked.
In the episode in question, Barlow, 51, did not clarify where the event was that she was supposed to be meeting Affleck at. However, the interviewer told the star that it was likely held in Utah.
“I haven’t been in Utah in maybe, 8, 9 or 10 years, I don’t know,” Affleck, 53, said. “It doesn’t look familiar to me and I don’t remember anything.”
The “Air” star went on to sidestep the question by saying it’s unlikely that he met the Bravolebrity, but it is possible that he could have met her and the meeting slipped his memory as he typically runs into so many people at events.
“I don’t want to embarrass her because, I say hi to a lot of people, I don’t want to be the jerk who is like, I did meet you… You don’t remember everyone you meet,” Affleck shared.
“I don’t think I’m qualified to weigh in on this, whatever this raging controversy is.”
It didn’t take long before Barlow came back with receipts and proof. She responded in the comments section under Access Hollywood’s post explaining that she allegedly met him at the SXSW movie festival.
“SXSW [for] The Accountant 2,” she wrote, referring to Affleck’s movie premiere at the Austin, Texas, festival in March 2025. “And it was a great movie and party.”
She then followed it up with a TikTok from her SXSW experience. Included among the roundup of clips was a video showing her view of Affleck walking the red carpet at the festival as well as a brief snippet of Lively talking on stage at her “Another Simple Favor” premiere.
As Bravo fans may recall, the Vida Tequila owner said in a Season 6 episode the reason why she couldn’t attend castmate Angie Katsanevas’ girls’ trip was because of her feud with other co-star Bronwyn Newport and because she had a business obligation involving the actor and Lively.
