Good Will Hunting actor clarifies her viral reaction to Matt Damon winning Oscar: I was devastated

Hollywood celebrities Minnie Driver and Matt Damon dated briefly between 1997-1998. The duo starred together in Good Will Hunting which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The award was accepted by Damon alongside Ben Affleck and Minnie’s reaction had stolen the show.

Minnie Driver finally reacts to ex-Matt receiving Oscars with Ben.

Comments by Celebs quoted Minnie as saying under an Instagram comment section, "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!"

Good Will Hunting won back-to-back awards

In 2022, Driver told Entertainment Tonight, "My family loved Matt – it wasn't that. It was that they could see that this young man was rocketing really fast and so was I, and when you're young, it's pretty hard to keep your head on straight and to maintain a grounded sense of deportment. They were like, 'This may well end badly for reasons that are to do with all these things coming together in a perfect storm.'"

Damon first revealed breaking up with Minnie in January 1998 on "The Oprah Winfrey Show".

In the same interview, Minnie revealed, "There's a guy who'd been sent, the cameraman at the Academy Awards. He'd literally been told to stay on me, and he was so in my grill. He was like a wildlife photographer waiting for the kill. He was just waiting for the moment that I was going to break or something was going to happen or I was going to get up and scream."

Officially, Damon has been married to Luciana Barroso since 2005. On the other hand, Driver is said to be dating filmmaker Addison O'Dea since 2019.