Jennifer Garner reveals if she's still in contact with her first love

For better or worse, you never forget your first love. While everyone falls in love for the first time at different stages of their lives, the idea of the person and who you were can linger for decades. Jennifer Garner helps explore that in The Five-Star Weekend, the series based on Elin Hilderbrand's bestselling novel, which is now streaming on Peacock. 

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Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a celebrated cookbook author whose seemingly perfect life begins to unravel after the death of her husband. Hoping to rediscover herself, Hollis invites four friends from different chapters of her life to spend a weekend together on Nantucket, including a surprise guest from her past: her high school sweetheart, Jack, played by Timothy Olyphant.

HOLA! Had the opportunity to talk to Garner and her co-star Chloë Sevigny ahead of the series' release. When I asked Garner whether she believes it's true that your first love never really leaves you, the actress responded, "The feeling of your first love never leaves you."

While only Garner knows who her first love was, she revealed, "I'm not in touch with the first love that I had. I'm not in touch with him at all, but I remember what that felt like."

The Golden Globe winners' comments come from someone who has experienced different chapters of love in her own life.  Over the years, the actress has been married to Scott Foley and Ben Affleck and has maintained a long-term relationship with businessman John Miller.

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For Garner, "Every love is different." Instead of looking back with nostalgia, she suggests that every relationship offers something worth carrying forward. "Every relationship is almost a different kind of love, and you get something from each relationship."

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In The Five-Star Weekend, viewers get to see what could happen when you come face to face with your first love decades later, with Hollis and Jack. 

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But Garner says Hollis' reunion with Jack isn't simply about revisiting the past. "Hollis, going back to Jack, she's a totally different person than she was in high school with Jack," she explains. "She's evolved a lot since then. They both have. So they're rediscovering, but they're also discovering each other for the first time."

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The 13 Going on 30 star may believe it's just the feeling that stays with you, but for Sevigny, her first love is still very much part of her life.

"I'm still close friends with my first love," Sevigny told HOLA!, revealing that the two recently reunited professionally.  "He directed, and I produced a film about these kids on tour with Dead and Company, and we're still very close and very much in each other's lives."

The Five Star weekend is now available to stream. 

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