J-Lo relationship damaged my career, says Affleck
Dating Jennifer Lopez was bad for Ben Affleck's career, according to the Hollywood star himself.
Affleck and Lopez's romance hit the headlines between 2002 and 2004, and the couple were engaged when they split.
Both blamed excessive tabloid coverage for the separation.
Now Affleck, who now has a daughter with girlfriend Jennifer Garner, believes the unwanted media attention surrounding his romance with Lopez resulted in studio executives taking him less seriously in Hollywood.
He told American magazine Details: "It was probably bad for my career. What happens is this sort of bleeds over from the tabloids across your movie work.
"You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.
"I ended up in an unfortunate crosshair position where I was in a relationship and (the media) mostly lied and inflated a bunch of salacious stuff for the sake of selling magazines. And I paid a certain price for that."
