this is "nightline." tonight, fugitive mom, cuffed, charged, and new clues. authorities still searching for her missing children, last seen in idaho months ago. now her hawaiian honeymoon with her new husband over. lori val olow getting her day i court. >> plus, revealing his biggest heartache. how he's reclaiming his life after struggles with alcohol. 20 years of reflection. but first.

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tonight lori vallow is behind bars. will her arrest help solve the case? >> you are to surrender immediately. >> a defiant lori vallow, a mother whose children have been missing for two months. >> you have been charged in the state of idaho with a number charges. >> reporter: her new husband, chad daybell watching impassively in the courtroom. the 46-year-old arrested and handcuffed thursday, facing charges, including non-support of a dependent child. her bail sits at $5 million. >> what i want to reiterate is that we are all hopeful that we are able to locate the missing children. >> can you tell me where your kids are? >> can you tell me where your kids are? >> reporter: the couple at the center of a mystery. where are jj and tylee?

it stretches from idaho to hawaii. a curious trail of deaths surrendering the coup surrounding the couple and accusations of belonging to a doomsday group. chad tight-lipped after his wife's arrest. >> the headlines have been major for all of the intricacies that come from it. and now you have two parents, one facing charges, the other one kind of out there in the ether. it raises more questions than answers. >> reporter: the biological grandparents of jj relieved lori is behind bars. >> we know it's a positive step for her. we also know as good as this news is, as bad as it is also, because we still don't have the children. >> reporter: the woodcocks were the first to raise the alarm that jj was missing. they told 2020 anchor amy robach about their desperate search for the children. >> this is your full time job

now. >> in this is our full time job now. what i'm looking for is one person. call authorities and say i think i know where they're at. that is my single, daily prayer. >> lori vallow was taken into custody without any incident. >> reporter: in a newly-released affidavit, rexburg, idaho police release incriminating details. on september 8, jj and tylee were taken to yellow stone national park. they claim this is the last-known sighting of the teenagers. as for jj, he was last seen at school on september 23rd. police discovered that the 7-year-old who has autism has prescription medication. she hasn't refilled since january 2019. in this video, can you see lori and an unidentified man moving items to and from a storage unit

in idaho. authorities searched that unit and found belongings linked to jj and tylee. lori and chad got married on a beach in hawaii. these photos capture a couple in love, but neither jj nor tylee were there for the wedding. just two weeks after chad's previous wife died. he received life insurance proceeds after her death after the affidavit. >> fact of it is one straw to be many peculiar straws in the story starts to raise an eyebrow bauf because the circumstances of her death are being questioned. >> reporter: chad also told his dead wife's parents that lori was aem at thn empty nester. some of his books focus on the end of the world. >> i can't say exactly when chad came into the picture, because i really don't know. i know lori was reading books.

>> books about the end of the world? >> and i knew she was in a group. >> reporter: the woodcocks describe lori as a good mom, until something changed. >> and did you love lori? >> oh, absolutely. she was. >> i loved being around her. she was very energetic, but now i think it's all a facade. >> reporter: the last time the grandparents face timed with jj was in august, after being unable to talk with him for months, they asked police to conduct a welfare check in november. when police went to lori's home, they discovered not only was jj missing but so was tylee. authorities allege lori and chad told police a series of lies. chad acted as if he didn't know lori very well, authorities said. he didn't know her phone number, according to the affidavit. lori's brother told the police that jj was with his grandma kay. clear lies since kay first called in the missing child report. then they said jj was with a

friend in arizona. they said that lori and chad had encouraged her at multiple times to provide false information about jj's whereabouts. >> as a part of the police investigation, they show that lori and chad have lied or actually solicited a friend to lie to the police. >> reporter: the day after the police visit, the couple vanished. >> their mom and step dad on the run. >> the children were never reported missing by their mother and step dad. >> reporter: two months after lori and chad were last seen in idaho, east idaho news captured the couple at this kauai resort. >> where are your kids? >> reporter: the couple's attorney issuing a statement in december. chad daybell was a loving husband and has the support of his children in this matter. lori daybell is a devoted mother and resents assertions to the contrary. we look forward to addressing the allegations once they have moved beyond speculation and

rumor. in late january, authorities in idaho demanded lori physically produce the children within five days. the woodcocks were there, waiting and hoping. >> i'm so hopeful, and i'm so afraid. >> yeah. >> i think i'm a lot more afraid by a long shot. >> reporter: but no children appeared. the grandparents still desperately waiting for news of jj and tylee. >> where's jj, where's tylee? that's our question. >> we would request bail be reduced. >> reporter: in court, lori's attorneys argue that a $5 million bail is too high. >> i'm asking for $10,000. >> reporter: and they're against her being extradited to idaho which could prolong the process of getting her back to the state where her children went missing. as to why she was the only one arrested so far -- >> it raises more questions than answers and we're on the edge of our seat to figure out what those answers are. >> lori vallow's next court

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head to the gym where the junior varsity basketball team is preparing for a playoff game. >> i believe in you. you're going to do it. i have a very good feeling about this game. >> reporter: affleck has a new movie coming up called "the way back." about a group of young basketball players who need to believe in themselves and a struggling coach who needs faith, too, that he can overcome addiction and reclaim his life. >> which one's me, this one? >> reporter: this is you. okay here we go. nice to he sao you again. >> nice to see you again, too. you look great. >> reporter: i think you were 27 in our first interview. you're now 47. >> like i said, you look the same. i'm quite visible, 47, you can see it. not getting away with anything. >> reporter: a hollywood star ready to talk about the fault lines of addiction in his life. >> i got sober when i was younger, when i, in 2001. which i now look at as a sort of a jv version of what really the

problem is. i was sober for a couple year, and then i thought, you know, i want to drink like a normal person and have wine at dinner and so on. and you know, i was able to. i was able to for about eight years. >> reporter: but he says he learned that sooner or later your vulnerabilities can find you. >> i started to drink more and more and more, and it was really hard for me to accept that that meant i was an alcoholic. i was like, i can just go back. i was fine before. i just take a break. i need to slow down. i'm okay, know what i mean? this isn't mean. and i started to drink every day. i'd come home from work and i'd start to drink and sit there and drink until i passed out on the couch. >> reporter: those years spent directly under the glare of the spotlight, the spotlight that first landed on him more than 20 years ago. there he was, a new face lighting up hollywood, ben affleck and his childhood buddy matt damon wrote a little movie

called "goodwill hunting." they were still two guys from boston in disbelief. >> chris moore produced the movie! >> whoever we forgot, we love you, and thank you so much! >> reporter: but it didn't take long for affleck to become a certified star, on the cover of all those magazines as a super hero in batman, in armageddon and a hollywood heartthrob. and in person, so well-read, so mischievous. he does an improve of bill clinton. >> he might take you by the hand. say, well, diane, you know, you've got the biggest surplus in american history. we created 22 million new jobs, and he feels your pain, a little town called hope. >> reporter: "the town" and "argo" brought him a new

dimension in hollywood. kept a kind of balance, as he married jennifer garner, the beloved ak trectress and had th children. but as years went by, there was rockiness in his marriage. two times inhe last three years he went to rehab, always worried that his drinking was affecting the children at the center of his life. >> i really don't want my children to pay for my sins. >> reporter: or to be afraid for you. >> or to be afraid for me, which is one of the hard parts of being the child of an alcoholic. you think what if my dad gets drunk, what if he does something stupid. what if he ends up on tmz. >> reporter: did you watch the tmz? >> i did. i did. i saw a little bit. i saw a little bit of it. so yes, i guess i did watch some of it, although not the whole thing. i know what it looks like to be drunk. i don't need to watch anymore of it. >> reporter: a relapse, broadcast around the world.

and in that moment, reliving a family history, a family in which so many lives were devastated by addiction. he was a little boy whose grandmother took her life amid alcohol and barbiturates. his aunt had an addiction. so did his father. >> for me, seeing my dad, he was drunk every day, and that was life. as that got worse, that was really, really painful. i always said, that will never be, i'm never going to do that. i wish he had been sober during those formative years, but what he's taught me is how important it is for me to be sober now during these formative years for my kids. >> reporter: he says his mother was his rock. and as his family broke apart he vowed never to repeat it. what was the hardest thing to be honest with yourself about? >> that i was going to, that i never thought i was going to get divorced. i didn't want to get divorced. i really didn't want to be a split family with my children. and it upset me.

because it meant i wasn't who i thought i was. and that was so painful and so disappointing. >> reporter: in yourself. >> in myself. >> reporter: and he says a wake-up call about the dad he is determined to be. >> i took the last half of the year off, and i just got to be dad, drive to school, pick'em up, go to the swim meet. that's where the parenting happens. it's in the cracks. in the moments where you just take them back from soccer and they say something profound or they talk about how they're really feeling about something, and it's like, that's where you get to be the parent. that's joy of it. and that's what i don't want to miss. >> reporter: he says, with sobriety, he can now understand more about the anxieties and the depression that have haunted him since the age of 26. >> i get depressed. anti-depressts are very helpful. i've taken them since i was it 26 years old. sometimes they won't tell you about some awful side effect and

you come back and say why am i 60 pounds heavier? oh, you put on a little weight, oh, well thanks. >> reporter: he has a new appreciation of a haealthy day. he likes discipline, routine, starting with the gym in the morning, then work. he has just written a new screenplay with matt damon. >> i'd like to find some sort of sense and meaning and purpose, you know. i was not raised religious. i'm not a the very good christian, although i go to church with my kids, because it was important to jennifer, and now i go, too, and i like it quite a bit. >> reporter: do you ever say to yourself, maybe i can, maybe i can go back, we can go back and reset time and have that family in tact again? >> you know, there are things that i would love to go back and change. i have regrets. i, you know, i made plenty of mistakes. some big, some small.

i wish i could go back in time and change all kinds of things, but i can't. >> reporter: but what he can do now is join that new breed of hollywood leading men showing a different kind of strength for family and sobriety. brad pitt, bradley cooper. >> i got sober because of this guy. and every day has been happier ever since. >> robert downey. >> reporter: robert downey. >> and guys like bradley and, you know, robert, have been really helpful to me and really supportive. and they're wonderful men. >> reporter: and with his new movie sending a message of hope and a reminder, if you need help, you're not alone. >> one, two, three, win! >> my favorite scene in this movie, this is a little bit of a spoiler, is where my character loses his job, because it's really about consequences. and you understand how desperate he is to not have to suffer those cops

painful that can be. >> reporter: on the right, the 47-year-old man, looking at the new path ahead. five years ahead, you want people to say ben affleck is? >> five years from now, ben affleck is sober and happy and sees his kids three and a half days a week and has made three or four movies that are interesting to him. i directed two. that he's hopefully proud of. and is in a healthy, stable, loving, committed relationship. >> reporter: sao he inside of you. >> i really set myself up for that one. didn't i? got to make it now. >> our thanks to diane. up next, beauty and grace out of isolation. this is my body of proof.

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