While promoting her upcoming memoir, 'The Riches' actress notes she still cherishes her past relationship with the 'Ford v Ferrari' actor because they were once in love with each other.
- May 6, 2022
AceShowbiz - Minnie Driver gets nostalgic about one failed romance. While promoting new memoir "Managing Expectations: A Memoir Essays", the Dahlia Malloy depicter in "The Riches" reflected on the "combustible ending" of her "sweet love affair" with actor Matt Damon.
The "Good Will Hunting" actress dished to Entertainment Tonight about details of the past relationship. Revealing that her family had already predicted the ending, she spilled, "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," Minnie went on explaining. "They were like, 'This may well end badly for reasons that are to do with all these things coming together in a perfect storm.' "
It turned out that Minnie's breakup with Matt did end badly and publicly. News spread like wildfire, and even reached her local grocery store, making her feel uncomfortable. "I don't care who you are, that is agony and it's like a strange, surreal dream," she recalled of the public separation.
"But I know he didn't put that picture there," the 52-year-old actress added. "It's so tricky, because it's not deliberate, he couldn't have helped how famous he became and how his life was being picked over, in the same way that mine was."
"It's funny now, when I think about walking down the magazine aisle in my local supermarket at midnight with my best friend, we were like, 'Are you seeing this? This is super weird,' " Minnie divulged further.
"My friend, Alexandra was like, 'Oh my god, I can't believe this is happening, like, I feel like we're in a movie. I would totally watch this movie, even though I know you're super heartbroken, but this is really weird,' " she continued recalling.
Minnie also remembered being followed by a cameraman at Academy Awards after the public split. "There's a guy who'd been sent, the cameraman at the Academy Awards -- he'd literally been told to, like, stay on me and," she detailed to the outlet, "Like, 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," she elaborated further, "He'd been told, 'Stay on her, bud. Something's gonna happen.' "
The "Cinderella (2021)" actress was thankful her father was by her side at the prestigious award show. "He was just squeezing my hand, and so he was doing what a dad does, which is protecting their kid," she dished, "I think this had been established, my dad liked strong medicine and it's good, he was right."
She added, "It feels like a movie in itself, which it was and it was presented in that way, but now, I look back and it just feels really overly dramatic and kind of funny -- brutal, but funny."
Despite the unpleasant experience, Minnie still cherished her past relationship with Matt. The fiance of Addison O'Dea stressed that before it all came crashing down, they once loved each other. "I tell that story with love, because that was just a sweet romance that was just a sweet love affair in the center of all of that stuff, but had a combustible ending, which then became the focus," she said.
Minnie further noted the reason she did not have hard feeling over it. "Another thing that my parents taught me, was there just isn't any time to sit around feeling resentful or angry," she said, "Just have to get on and everybody had a beautiful life."
