The star of infamous flops Pearl Harbour and Daredevil dated the Latino actress between 2002 and 2004, making another poor film, Gigli, together and keeping the press buzzing over their will they, won't they wedding arrangements.
Ben is now in a stable relationship with Jennifer Garner, but says that he is still suffering the repercussions of the media frenzy surrounding his Lopez romance.
Speaking to American magazine Details, he said: '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.'
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