Ben Affleck: Dating J.Lo Was Bad For My Career

Ben Affleck has blamed his spate of duff movies on dating Jennifer Lopez.

After the critical and commercial success of Good Will Hunting, Ben’s career floundered with a string of turkeys, culminating in the dismal double-whammy of Gigli and Jersey Girl, in which he co-starred with then girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez.

Now Ben has admitted that the Bennifer years (2002-2004) hurt his career.

“It was probably bad for my career,” he tells the new issue of Details magazine.

“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...”