Jennifer Garner says she was asked to stop going to child's soccer practice due to publicity surrounding her

Jennifer Garner has opened up about her fraught relationship with fame.

This week the 54-year-old actress reflected on raising her three kids in the spotlight, revealing how her fame affected their everyday lives, including when she was asked to stop attending her children's soccer practices.

'If I went through a yellow light, 15 cars would go through the red behind me,' Garner recalled on Evan Ross Katz's Shut Up Evan podcast. 'They would drive up onto people’s lawns, even on a hillside.'

She shares Violet, 20; Fin, 17; and Samuel, 14, with ex-husband Ben Affleck, 53.

The Alias alum added, 'We were trying to have our little one play soccer, and the association asked us to stop because there were 20 cars coming. So it wasn’t just about us. It was just an industry that had gotten out of control.'

The Daily Mail has reached out to Garner's representatives for comment but has not yet received a resopnse. 

She went on to muse on the incessant presence of photographers. 

'If you show up and you’re trying to get into the pediatrician and you have a sick kid on your shoulder and you’re scared and you can’t get into the door because you’re blocked by photographers, there’s something wrong with that, and the kids are paying the price,' Garner said.

The screen star pointed out a sense of ambivalence as she recognized the privileged lifestyle her career has offered. 

'It felt like "poor little me, my poor little kids who have everything in the world," but it was a danger to everyone around us,' she said.

Katz asked Garner what the current climate is like between her and the relentless shutterbugs.

She said there are two photographers who have been assigned to follow her for over 20 years, and explained their 'odd' dynamic.

'I have a very interesting relationship with my main guy,' she opened up.

'I mean, I've done anything to ask him to leave. And at the same time, we have an odd respect for each other. I don't know... we've had some really real life moments together.'

Garner recalled, 'I was followed by someone who, for whatever reason, I thought was going to hurt me, and I ran to him because I knew him and trusted him, and I knew that he and I would be okay.'

'Like, there’s kind of a Stockholm syndrome thing,' she explained. 'And at the same time, I’ve called the cops on him a million times and been like, "Can you please just give me a walk around the block with my kids and my dog?"'

Earlier this month, the Houston, Texas, native made rare comments praising Affleck.

Amid the success of her Hollywood career, Garner said she 'absolutely' 'got caught up' in motherhood, but described her ex as a 'great partner,' eight years after their divorce was finalized.

The subject arose as she was asked by Entertainment Weekly about 'the minutiae of raising a family and working.'

'But my kids are a little bigger [now]. Their dad has become this incredible co-parent,' she gushed about her ex.

She added elsewhere in the interview: 'When [my kids] were younger, I wouldn’t have done a couple of weeks away without taking them with me. Now they’re in high school. You can’t really do that anymore. But they can stay with their dad. He’s wonderful. He takes care of them. He’s a great partner in that way. And that’s very freeing.'