By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Ben Affleck may be Hollywood’s golden boy these days, but back during the earlier years of his career, he believes the public treated him worse than convicted wife and baby killer Scott Peterson!

The Academy Award winner, who is currently getting a lot of Oscar buzz for his latest film, Argo, opens up in GQ’s December 2012 issue about the painful public backlash he encountered in 2003 and 2004, when he was dating and starring in movies with Jennifer Lopez, and Breaking Celebrity News has the details.

“At the time, I knew on some level, ‘This is insane,’” he reveals about the mean-spirited words that were being said and written about him at the time.

“What was that guy’s name who killed his wife and dumped her off the side of a boat? Peterson. I remember thinking he actually gets slightly better treatment than I do in the press. At least they had to say ‘alleged killer.’

“Unfortunately there’s an aspect of that that’s like one of those fights you see on YouTube where one of them falls down and then a bunch of people who were standing around come over and kick the person. They don’t know them, they have no involvement in the fight, but they recognize a moment that they can get a free shot in, and for some people it’s just too much to resist. And that was definitely me at that p