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Minnie Driver is aware of that point heals most heartache.
Driver appeared on “The Jennifer Hudson Present,” the place she mirrored on the disappointment she felt at age 25 after a break up from her former boyfriend Matt Damon, saying she would inform her youthful self she’d be simply high-quality.
“I want I might have informed her, ‘Honey it’s cool, you possibly can have fun and life’s gonna be nice and delightful and arduous and superb,” Driver mentioned.
Driver and Damon dated for a couple of yr after they met whereas filming the 1997 movie “Good Will Searching.”
“You’re going to like once more, it’ll be high-quality,” Driver added. “My little face, [I want] to wrap my arms round that younger lady and hug her and go, ‘It’s all going to be high-quality honey, don’t fear.’”
The subject got here up after a throwback clip of Damon and Ben Affleck profitable greatest authentic screenplay for “Good Will Searching” on the Oscars in 1998 not too long ago made headlines. It confirmed Driver’s showing crestfallen as the 2 gave their acceptance speech.
After somebody commented on social media that she “seems so unhappy,” Driver defined why.
She wrote that that Damon had “ended our relationship a number of weeks earlier than” and “was on the Oscars along with his new gf.”
“I used to be devastated,” she mentioned. “Want I might have celebrated extra because it was a tremendous second for all of us, and for this glorious movie!”