Jennifer Garner Chokes Up During Podcast Chat With Molly Sims [Video]

Jennifer Garner got emotional as she remembered a teacher who mentored her while she was a young dancer, saying it thinking of them made her “choke up.”

The Hollywood star, 52, learned ballet when she was growing up and said one particular teacher had a huge impact on her. She said the “amazing” teacher was also “tough,” but that she proved to be “gold” in her life.

Opening up on Molly Sims’ Lipstick On The Rim podcast, mom of three Garner said: “She was everything to me, she was a mentor. She was so tough.

“I remember the day she told me she was proud of me. I had won a scholarship for a summer intensive, a dance intensive at the North Carolina School of the Arts.”

Sounding tearful, the Yes Dayactress went on: “She wrote me a note and said, as the head of the board of the West Virginia whatever, I am very pleased to tell you that …