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06.05.2022 - 02:13 / perezhilton.com
Minnie Driver has some THOUGHTS on the shocking way Matt Damon broke up with her back in the ‘90s!
The actress, who met and fell in love with Damon on the set of 1997’s Good Will Hunting, opened up about their fast and furious romance in a new interview with Entertainment Tonight. Recalling the end of their 1-year romance, after Matt appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and declared he was single, Minnie shared on Wednesday:
Yeesh! Combustible does not sound like the way you want things to go down!
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Interestingly, it sounds like Matt has Minnie’s parents to thank for the fact that she hasn’t held a grudge about the heartbreaking split, she added:
The Cinderella star’s family “loved Matt” but they “could see that this young man was rocketing really fast,” just as she was, she explained:
And it did result in a storm of tabloid attention, especially after the Jason Bourne lead went on Oprah’s talk show in 1998 and declared:
But just months later, the Brit slammed him for not giving her a heads up about his feelings, telling the Los Angeles Times:
She also added another dig, suggesting he was using their relationship as a PR move for more attention:
Yikes. The drama continued a year later, in November 1999, when Matt went back on Oprah’s show and denied not breaking up with his former co-star in person before making the announcement. He learned his lesson, though, because when asked if he was seeing anyone new, he quipped:
That time remains but a “surreal dream” to her now. Remarkably, she sounds somewhat understanding of it all, too, realizing that the screenwriter “couldn’t have helped how famous he became and how his life was being picked over.” If
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