Details magazine caught up with Ben Affleck for their November cover story, where the actor talked about dating and being engaged to Jennifer Lopez before the pair finally called it quits in January 2004. -It was probably bad for my career,” the actor explained. “What happens is this sort of bleed-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. Then, in concert with some movies that didn’t work…”
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