Minnie Driver has reflected on what she would have told her younger self three decades on from having her heart broken by former flame Matt Damon.
Appearing on Thursday’s episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show, the actress, 54, opened up about the emotional period following her split from Damon, 53, in 1998 when she was just 25.
Driver and Damon met while filming the movie Good Will Hunting in 1997 and dated for a year until their split shortly before awards season.The subject came up after host Hudson, 42, asked her about a resurfaced video which had gone viral last year and showed Driver looking sad as Damon and Ben Affleck won Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting at the Oscars in 1998.Hudson noted that “it made a lot of headlines” after Driver then commented on her sad expression in the clip.
"I wish I could have told her, ‘Honey it’s cool, you can celebrate and life’s gonna be great and beautiful and hard and amazing,’ ” Driver said, adding: “You’re going to love again, it’ll be fine.”
Responding at the time to the video, which was posted in October, Driver had written "My face," followed by four crying with laughter emojis and a red heart in the comments section.
She also acknowledged a fan who wrote, "Minnie looks so sad," and admitted that they were right because Damon had “ended our relationship a few weeks before” and “was at the Oscars with his new gf."
"I was devastated," continued Driver, who starred as Skylar in Good Will Hunting. "Wish I could have celebrated more as it was an amazing moment for all of us, and for this wonderful film!"
Elaborating further to Hudson, she said: “We’d recently broken up, I was nominated, he was nominated. He had a new girlfriend, I was totally heartbroken.”
She added, “I think it’s like anyone who’s been heartbroken can understand, it’s like the last thing you want is everybody having a window in on that and it was so public.”
"So when I commented, it was just I saw the clip, I hadn’t seen the clip,” the Beekeeper star continued. “I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it. I’d never seen my face. The reaction when they won and they cut to me because there was a camera right in the face of the poor young 25-year-old girl, who’s about to burst into tears.”
