Los Angeles: Addressing a controversy of his request to conceal his ancestral connection to a slave-owner in a documentary, actor Ben Affleck says the reason why he was lobbying to hide the truth was because he was "embarrassed" about his lineage.


Ben Affleck. Pic/Santa Banta 

"I didn't want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed. The very thought left a bad taste in my mouth," Ben Affleck said in a statement posted to Facebook on Tuesday evening, reports theguardian.com.