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Minnie Driver on March 10.
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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 unhappiness she felt at age 25 after a cut up from her former boyfriend Matt Damon, saying she would inform her youthful self she’d be simply advantageous.
“I want I might have instructed her, ‘Honey it’s cool, you’ll be able to rejoice and life’s gonna be nice and exquisite and onerous and wonderful,” 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 advantageous,” Driver added. “My little face, [I want] to wrap my arms round that younger girl and hug her and go, ‘It’s all going to be advantageous honey, don’t fear.’”
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Matt Damon and Minnie Driver in 1997.
The subject got here up after a throwback clip of Damon and Ben Affleck successful finest unique screenplay for “Good Will Searching” on the Oscars in 1998 just lately made headlines. It confirmed Driver’s showing crestfallen as the 2 gave their acceptance speech.
After somebody commented on social media that she “appears to be like so unhappy,” Driver defined why.
She wrote that that Damon had “ended our relationship just a few weeks earlier than” and “was on the Oscars together with his new gf.”
“I used to be devastated,” she mentioned. “Want I might have celebrated extra because it was an incredible second for all of us, and for this excellent movie!”