Josh Hartnett's romance with ex-girlfriend Scarlett Johansson almost put his role in movie 30 Days Of Night in jeopardy - because she gave him glandular fever.

The 29-year-old struggled to film scenes in the vampire picture after contracting the "kissing disease."

He says, "I was falling apart because I had glandular fever, otherwise known as the kissing disease. You're supposed to have it at 14, so apparently I haven't kissed enough people."

And the actor was further plagued by a handful of injuries while filming.

He adds, "I broke a knuckle, ruptured a blood vessel in my eye and kept getting beat up with cuts and bruises. It was a trying first month."

Hartnett and Johansson dated for a year after meeting on the set of movie The Black Dahlia, but split in November last year.

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