Minnie Driver Boldly Admits She Was “Devastated” Watching Matt Damon Receive His Oscar For ‘Good Will Hunting’ Because He Had Just Dumped Her

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Good Will Hunting actress Minnie Driver revealed why she looked so “devastated” when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won an Oscar for the 1997 drama.

The actress, who played Good Will Hunting‘s Skylar, commented on a video shared on Instagram that showed her solemnly watching on as Damon and Affleck took the stage to receive the first Academy Award of their careers.

After fans in the comments noted that she looked “so sad,” she revealed that her relationship with Damon had ended just weeks before the awards ceremony.

“Matt had ended our relationship a few weeks before this, and was at the Oscars with his new gf… I was devastated. Wish I could have celebrated more as it was an amazing moment for all of us, and for this wonderful film !” she commented.

She did not disclose who his new girlfriend was at the time.

GOOD WILL HUNTING, Minnie Driver, Matt Damon — Photo: Courtesy of Everett Collection

Driver and Damon began dating while filming Good Will Hunting after starring as each other’s love interests. The relationship was short-lived, however, as Damon later denied having a girlfriend during an appearance on Oprah.

“Well, I’m single. I was with Minnie for a while, but we’re not really romantically involved anymore, we’re just really good friends. I love her dearly,” he told Oprah Winfrey, before later adding that it “wasn’t meant to be.”

Driver later hit back, telling the Los Angeles Times that she found his comments to be a “fantastically inappropriate” way to address their breakup.

But Driver later revealed in 2021 that she had recently spoken to Damon for the first time since they finished filming the movie.

“I did see Matt Damon on the beach and I had not had a conversation with him, seriously, since we made the film,” Driver said during an appearance on the Keep It! podcast. “That was last summer and it was actually very nice to see him, and his kids, and his wife and it all felt quite middle-aged actually, which was reassuring.”

She said, “I feel like so much of the folly of youth went on with our initial relationship, like it was amazing and tabloidy. So that was nice to just have sort of a middle-aged conversation about the weather and stuff.”