Jennifer Garner Talks 'Intense' Moment Presenting Sexual Abuse Survivors an Award at 2018 ESPYs (Exclusive)
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Jennifer Garner is opening up about the emotional close to the ESPY Awards on Wednesday night.
The 46-year-old actress took the stage to present the night's final award, the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, to 141 athletes who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of Larry Nassar, a former team doctor for USA gymnastics and Michigan State University who was recently sentenced to 40 to 175 years prison.
"Well, this is a very intense moment," she told ET's Nischelle Turner just before she presented the award.
The former Alias star further discussed how she talks about the culture of abuse with her own children, Samuel, 6, Seraphina, 9, and Violet, 12.
"It's so important to find a way to talk to our kids and help them know that they're always safe coming to us, they can tell you anything, anything," Garner shared. "I don't know, I bumbled my way through [a talk about it] the way anyone would, but I think it's just really important to keep the conversation going."
When Garner took the stage minutes later she called what the women went through "a nightmare." Following her speech, Aly Raisman, Sarah Klein and Tiffany Thomas Lopez opened up about their own experiences with the other 138 women surrounding them on stage.
Before the ESPY awards, Garner was working hard to get in shape for her upcoming action movie, Peppermint, which is due out in September.
"You know I was doing what I had been doing before, we just upped the intensity and we upped the times a day that I worked out," she revealed. "I was working out with Body by Simone's Simone De La Rue and we kept dancing. We danced our way through it."
Despite growing up dancing, Garner revealed that she "wouldn't call myself an athlete."
"I cannot throw or catch a ball to save my life," Garner joked. "I live in fear that somebody is going to be like,' here, catch' and I'll duck."
Here's more on Garner's workouts:
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