Once the cat was out of the bag on Megan Cooper and Mario Lopez' secret romance, it apparently brought an abrupt end to their relationship.
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"We're not friends anymore. He's really pissed. He's like, 'You're not supposed to talk to [press],'" Cooper -- one of 10 contestants on ABC's upcoming I Survived a Japanese Game Show reality series -- told E! News in a Saturday report.
"But when you make me look like a total whore, I'm going to tell somebody about it."
The 22-year-old Hooters girl from San Antonio, TX alleges she and Lopez had a romantic relationship away from the public eye for almost a year. The problem was that -- at the same time -- he was publicly dating his Dancing with the Stars third-season professional partner Karina Smirnoff.
"He told me he lived alone," Cooper told E! News. "But I opened up [his] closet and saw a row of women's shoes and said, 'Either you are a cross-dresser or a woman is living here.' Mario said Karina just left her stuff there and was moving it out. He kept telling me that he and Karina were broken up."
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Cooper said she and Lopez continued to see each other up until March. However Lopez and Smirnoff only ended their two-year relationship earlier this month -- with a rep for the Dancing with the Stars professional telling People "the relationship wasn't heading in the right direction."
"He has a lot of great qualities, but he was not the most faithful person in the world," Cooper told E! News about Lopez. "He's a really great guy, don't get me wrong. He's a really nice person."
A Lopez rep declined comment on Cooper's allegations, according to E! News.
Cooper will compete on I Survived a Japanese Game Show -- a new reality series that will follow the contestants as they travel to Japan to compete in various challenges for the chance to claim a $250,000 -- when it premieres Tuesday, June 24 at 9PM ET/PT on ABC.
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